> Quick thank you for the first annual wooden kayak symposium, It was fun to
> see the other kayaks there, would have stayed longer but had a bunch of
> other things to do that weekend as well.

> Anyway, I'm looking for ideas on adding an outrigger to a pygmy coho. I
> want the outrigger for two reasons. One is perhaps the equivelent of
> training wheels if I let people borrow the kayak. The main reason is
> scheming for building a smaller kayak for my daughter and having her kayak
> be an outrigger off my kayak.

> Its a temorary thing, so I would prefer not to make any drastic, ugly
> permanent modifications to the Coho.

> Do I just shape a saddle to fit the deck, run the outrigger under deck
> lines, or epoxy in some fixture?

> thanks dave

CLC has a sail rig design that could be modified to work as an outrigger for a Pygmy. I know that is dangerous to use CLC and Pygmy in the same sentence, but it just might work. But then the world might come to an end with CLC technology on a superior Pygmy. ;-)

Mike