One day, I was at an instructor-friend s house when a canoe retailer called from Vermont. I bought the mast. I ended up making a leeboard with another friend in a Manhattan apartment. Years later, I bought a better mast. Now, as editor of the Canoe Sailor newsletter, my mailing list has a sailing canoeist in almost every state including Alaska, Utah, Iowa and states from Maine to Florida.
Sailors are in canoe clubs in New York, Ohio and California.
In Binghamton, Harriman State Park and Brooklyn, New York there are active canoe clubs with a sailing program. In California, canoe sailors are scattered around Monterey Bay and San Francisco Bay. In Florida are some excellent canoe sailors. Noble Enge near Jacksonville and John Komp in Gulfport have taught canoe sailing and sailed a canoe for over 30 years. The Rig A stripper canoe with a lateen rig.