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Image: "Michael Brigg sailing his 50 year old veteran (K102) alongside Peter Ullmans state of the art Maas design canoe (GER79) at the 2017 Worlds, Pwlhelli. Photo: © Robert Muller"

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Image: Alistair Warren and Dragonfly (GBR317) out for a blast on the blown off last day of the 2013 Europa Cup, in which he was runner up. © Jim Champ 2013

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Image: Simon Allen (GBR 278). I love the lighting in this one. 2011 worlds, Travemunde, Germany. Photo: © Robert Muller"

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Image: Frederik Steimann at the 2014 Worlds, San Francisco. Photo © Robert Muller

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Image: "Geoffrey Carne:Jervis BaySC at the 2024 Worlds: © Ulrike Verrkamp"

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Image: "Emma GRIGULL at the 2024 Worlds: © Ulrike Verrkamp"

The Decked Canoe Archives

Assembled by Tim Gittins

Leo Friede in Mermaid

Photo: Leo Friede, sailing "Mermaid" (16x30) winning the NYCC International Challenge, 1911 (NYSHA)

The Decked Canoe Archive

Assembled by Tim Gittins some years ago, this is a superb collection of archive material

A personally fascinating piece of Western History is the rise and fall of the Decked Sailing Canoe. These pages explore the people, the society, and the craft behind this movement and the evolution of the decked sailing canoe into the contemporary IC.

"These canoes... There is nothing I know to equal it. There is the feeling of speed, and the clean rush of air, as the water rushes swiftly underneath you. There is also the joy of gliding low and swiftly over the water, the only sounds being the swish of your canoe through the water and the singing of the wind through your mast, rigging and sails. At sixty.. I still look back with a quickening pulse and tingling of the blood at the exciting moments on the end of a sliding seat in a lightweight canoe."

- Uffa Fox, Sailing Boats

"... canoe sailing is the highest and most intelligent form of sailing, the most interesting and the most healthy branch of sailing and indeed any sport. ... Sailing a light canoe under a cloud of sail is the nearest approach by man to the controllable flight of a bird and the governable passage of the fish in the water, and all that can be legitimately introduced to perfect such action should indeed be welcomed." ... Warrington Baden-Powell, 1889

Photo: Decked Canoe

Photo: W. Willard Howard, of the New York Canoe Club, sailing "Yankee" (16x30) in Britain around 1899

In the archive here

Drawings and Photographs

Books, Book Extracts and other Articles

Copyright: its unrecorded to what extent the compiler of this collection established copyright clerance for all the material. Much of it is old enough to be out of copyright, and smaller extracts permissable under fair use or equivalent legislation. If you own copyright in any of this material and wish it to be removed please contact the webmaster below.

Photo: IC K47

Photo: Spindrift, Uffa Fox first chined canoe. Spindrift was built in 1954.

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International 10 sq.m. Canoe International 10 sq.m. Canoe

Image: "Hugh deLong (GBR275) at the 2017 Worlds, Pwlhelli. Photo: © Robert Muller"

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Image: USA 246 at the 2011 Worlds © Robert Muller ex German web site

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Image: "Gareth Caldwell at the 2024 Worlds: © Ulrike Verrkamp"

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Image: Mikey Radziejowski, Chris Maas at the 2014 Worlds, San Francisco. Photo © Robert Muller

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Image: GBR310 at the 2011 Worlds © Robert Muller ex German web site

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Image: "Colin Newman featured on the start line at the 2013 Europeans. Is that a great start for Hugh deLongh in 275, or is it a step too far? . Photo: © Loch Lomond SC"

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Image: "Simon Hipkin at the 2024 Worlds: © Ulrike Verrkamp"

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Image: Todd Twigg, Simon Allen at the 2014 Worlds, San Francisco. Photo © Robert Muller

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Image: "Blue Horizon Behind Blue Horizon John Ellis (GBR318) at the 2011 worlds, Travemunde, Germany. Photo: © Robert Muller"

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Image: "Great Spray Effects. Frederik Steimann (GER68) at the 2011 worlds, Travemunde, Germany. Photo: © Robert Muller"

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Image: USA 250 at the 2011 Worlds © Robert Muller ex German web site

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Image: Steve (USA) Clark. The man whose vision led to the exciting collection of new designs at the 2014 Worlds. Photo © Robert Muller