Recently, I finished designing an ama for our six-man outrigger canoe (OC6). This was a project that I wanted to have fun with and wasn’t too worried about rushing it or forcing the completion. Due to this, the reality was she sat unfinished for months in my shop. Which in hindsight became a blessing in disguise. By the time I came back to work on it, I decided to completely redo the hull shape due to some things I didn’t like. It also didn’t hurt that once six-man season was