Heading out to the boatyard today to work on my training canoe.  Tom O Bedlam is what I'll be running the race in but it'll be awhile before it's ready to sail so in the meantime I have a 15 foot fiberglass canoe I'm adding a sailing rig and decks to.  Unlike Tom O Bedlam the trainer won't have ballast or a heavy steel board to provide righting effort so the trainer will carry less sail it should actually be more lively than Tom O Bedlam  because it doesn't carry any ballast which will make it a good trainer.  I'll put some pictures up later today after I get back from the boat yard of the boat and layout of the rigging deck that will support the mast and lee board as initially the deck on the trainer will just be canvas over stringers to keep spray and the occasional big wave out of the boat.  Once I'm satisfied with the balance of the sails and leeboard I'll put a light plywood deck onto it.  While the trainer is starting with a 45 square foot batwing lateen I'll be adding a mizzen to it as well so I can get used to how that layout should be handled in a small boat.

Not my boat nor my sail but it is a batwing lateen, mine will be carried like some of the old racing canoes with the yard fully vertical.  It's based off the mainsail of Isabel an 1886 sailing canoe from Toronto.