Canoe stern in a following sea.... good..... or bad?

[Saltram31]

True double ender

Mine behaves in a following sea,but need to pay attention to the tiller in quartering seas.

 

[stav]

Got to be good as it means the hull shape should be somewhere near balanced, probably will not plan like a dinghy though, always liked my 9T hillyard but never really got caught out in any thing really bad wind wise.

 

[cat ketch]

I find the Hunter Liberty ( same hull as the Minstrel) the most comfortable boat of it's size for going down wind that I have ever sailed on. In particular it shows no tendency to broach, I don't know if this is because of the lack of buoyancy in the quarters or if the long bilge keel/runners keep it running true. Probably a bit of both, and the Liberty is also almost perfectly balanced when goose-winged on a run with both booms squared off to the wind.

 

[William_H]

High Dylan
You have a fine boat stick with it. I don't think the shape of the stern will ever make any difference to you. Sure most similar sized boats have transoms but don't worry about that just do it and enjoy. Ignore those people that might point and laugh. olewill

 

[Fantasie 19]

As mentioned the Colin archer lifeboats didn't suffer from being double enders.

...and as mentioned above neither did the Viking long ships... does Gypsy Moth count as a canoe stern???

 

[Rivers & creeks]

The most interesting use of 'traditional' I have seen in a while

There was a slug of irony implied.

 

[sparkie]

I wouldn't worry Dylan, Libertys/Minstrels have done some long voyages- Hans Schaeuble (Golden Wind) in particular- and lived to tell the tale. Having owned a conventional flat transom and the current pointy one I find the pointy one much easier to handle in a following sea. What would happen in extreme conditions I don't know and hope never to have to find out. However I doubt if the basically sound sea-keeping qualities of your hull would change.

 

[Retired in Crete]

The first ever non-stop solo round the world voyage was made in a double ender and survived many storms. It served R K-J well and looked after him. It should do you just fine.

John

 

[dylanwinter]

I have no reason to lose confidence in the Minstrel

some-one sent me a youtube message so I looked on the web and noticed that it was a fairly common suggestion to make

but being based at the Humber Yawl Club at the moment and reading a wonderful book about Holmes and Strange and the adventures they had in their canoe yawls I was curious about the physics

my guess is that the boat has more bouyancy than an equivalent flat transomed 21 footer but less than a transomed 23 footer

Dylan