Why do outrigger canoes have outrigger on left side.?

Question

If you say "tradition" tell me how it got started

Answer 1

Amas can be placed on either the left or the right side. Quite often, when you're surfing it's better to have them on the right. However, many of the newer OC1s are constructed so you can't change the ama from one side to the other. The canoe manufacturers have taken this on themselves, and I have no idea why.

Most OC1 runs are made with the ama side towards the land. There are several reasons for this. You aren't looking into the sun, for one, and you are traveling downwind. On the west side of an island, that means you put your ama on the left.

Shifu Mike Evans -- you won't find anyone rowing an OC1. Rowers go backwards, using oars. Paddlers go forward, and that's the direction the outrigger canoes travel.

Answer 2

left side is outside hence outrigger. if it on thr right side it's an inrigger

Answer 3

I've also seen amas (outriggers) placed on the right for when you surf.

Answer 4

Having outriggers on the left helps for a heavly right handed world not that outriggers really ever get in the way the real challenge is to not tip the darn things if u ask me

Answer 5

Probably because most people are right-handed and thus do the rowing on that side...just a guess though.