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PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAW Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | THE BUG-OUT BOATSEE MORE ON PROAFILE.COM PROA FILE | WWII DROP TANK MULTIHULLS Did you know that American airmen stationed in the Pacific built drop-tank multihull racers during WWII? Well now you do. Thanks to Paul D. for the submission. PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATSMINIMUS II SEA TRIALSWAAN AELON IN MAJELSINGLE-HANDED RECORD ATTEMPT BY PROA Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to be launched from the beach and through the surf. Brimming with carefully considered details, the plywood stitch and glue construction will appeal to home builders. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, onlywith
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAW Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | THE BUG-OUT BOATSEE MORE ON PROAFILE.COM PROA FILE | WWII DROP TANK MULTIHULLS Did you know that American airmen stationed in the Pacific built drop-tank multihull racers during WWII? Well now you do. Thanks to Paul D. for the submission. PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Minimus II Sea Trials Boatbuilding Catamarans Rigs. Minimus II is an interesting design project that is now undergoing sea trials off the Oregon coast. Designed by David Omick and Pearl Mast for comfortable, if minimal, ocean transport for two in the trade winds, the boat is also carefully and creatively designed to make a minimal dent in thewallet.
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS French designer Jérôme Delaunay has completed plans for a 9.9m (32’-6”) cruising proa named VAKA 990. It is a “pacific” type that includes four berths, a WC and some storage. The proa features a free-standing schooner rig of 37.25 m2 (400 sq. ft.) and central daggerboard in the main hull. Steering is via outboard mounted(Viking-style
PROA FILE | PROAFILE UPDATE IN PROGRESS Proafile Update in Progress. 28 April 2021 Editor 8 Comments. Ahoy! Proafile has just undergone a big update (EE v.2 to v.6) and is now getting back into shape. Some images are missing but should appear again shortly. If you find any functionality not working, please let me know via the Contact Form, thanks. I’m uploading an old racingproa
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Original Polycon 35 in Newport Beach Catamarans Dock Ranger History. The original CSK Polynesian Concept 35 is for sale in Newport Beach, CA. This boat was designed and built for Buddy Ebsen, the actor and TV star best remembered for his role as Jeb Clampett in the CBS sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.The listing dealer appears to be banking on the star power of the yacht, but the listing is PROA FILE | THE PROAFILE PRIMER The illustrated glossary of bilaterally asymmetrical sailboats. aerohydrofoil Sailboat concept pioneered by Bernard Smith in the 1960’s and described in his seminal work The 40-Knot Sailboat.Smith’s analysis of sailboat kinetics led him to a groundbreaking design involving no traditional sail or hull, instead utilizing solid airfoils and buoyant hydrofoils, arranged in a proa-like formation. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A proa with no name Proas Racing. UNNAMED PROA is a near 60’ racing design with a crab claw schooner rig! It’s the work of Jeremy Fischer of Martinique, who built the EQUILIBRE some 10 years back. I know little about the design except that it was originally intended to enter the Route du Rhum. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Proafile - multihull design concepts and review. R2AK 2016 and Parallel Evolution Reports Racing. The starting horn for the second annual Race to Alaska sounded at 6:00 am, Thursday morning, the 23rd of June. 58 boats crossed the starting line and headed for Victoria, BC, the first leg of an epic 750 mile race to Ketchikan - no motors, and no support. . For a few days beforehand, The small PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Jacknife Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki,New Zealand.
PROA FILE | CATAPROA Bernd Kohler is one multihull designer and pioneer who still appreciates the virtue of thrift, and his online portfolio is full of innovative boat plans from 4.25m to 12.5m that really do provide excellent value for the dollar. His latest effort is an asymmetricalcatamaran that he
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATSMINIMUS II SEA TRIALSWAAN AELON IN MAJELSINGLE-HANDED RECORD ATTEMPT BY PROA Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to be launched from the beach and through the surf. Brimming with carefully considered details, the plywood stitch and glue construction will appeal to home builders. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, onlywith
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAW Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | THE BUG-OUT BOATSEE MORE ON PROAFILE.COM PROA FILE | WWII DROP TANK MULTIHULLS Did you know that American airmen stationed in the Pacific built drop-tank multihull racers during WWII? Well now you do. Thanks to Paul D. for the submission. PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATSMINIMUS II SEA TRIALSWAAN AELON IN MAJELSINGLE-HANDED RECORD ATTEMPT BY PROA Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to be launched from the beach and through the surf. Brimming with carefully considered details, the plywood stitch and glue construction will appeal to home builders. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, onlywith
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAW Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | THE BUG-OUT BOATSEE MORE ON PROAFILE.COM PROA FILE | WWII DROP TANK MULTIHULLS Did you know that American airmen stationed in the Pacific built drop-tank multihull racers during WWII? Well now you do. Thanks to Paul D. for the submission. PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Minimus II Sea Trials Boatbuilding Catamarans Rigs. Minimus II is an interesting design project that is now undergoing sea trials off the Oregon coast. Designed by David Omick and Pearl Mast for comfortable, if minimal, ocean transport for two in the trade winds, the boat is also carefully and creatively designed to make a minimal dent in thewallet.
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS French designer Jérôme Delaunay has completed plans for a 9.9m (32’-6”) cruising proa named VAKA 990. It is a “pacific” type that includes four berths, a WC and some storage. The proa features a free-standing schooner rig of 37.25 m2 (400 sq. ft.) and central daggerboard in the main hull. Steering is via outboard mounted(Viking-style
PROA FILE | PROAFILE UPDATE IN PROGRESS Proafile Update in Progress. 28 April 2021 Editor 8 Comments. Ahoy! Proafile has just undergone a big update (EE v.2 to v.6) and is now getting back into shape. Some images are missing but should appear again shortly. If you find any functionality not working, please let me know via the Contact Form, thanks. I’m uploading an old racingproa
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Original Polycon 35 in Newport Beach Catamarans Dock Ranger History. The original CSK Polynesian Concept 35 is for sale in Newport Beach, CA. This boat was designed and built for Buddy Ebsen, the actor and TV star best remembered for his role as Jeb Clampett in the CBS sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.The listing dealer appears to be banking on the star power of the yacht, but the listing is PROA FILE | THE PROAFILE PRIMER The illustrated glossary of bilaterally asymmetrical sailboats. aerohydrofoil Sailboat concept pioneered by Bernard Smith in the 1960’s and described in his seminal work The 40-Knot Sailboat.Smith’s analysis of sailboat kinetics led him to a groundbreaking design involving no traditional sail or hull, instead utilizing solid airfoils and buoyant hydrofoils, arranged in a proa-like formation. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A proa with no name Proas Racing. UNNAMED PROA is a near 60’ racing design with a crab claw schooner rig! It’s the work of Jeremy Fischer of Martinique, who built the EQUILIBRE some 10 years back. I know little about the design except that it was originally intended to enter the Route du Rhum. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Proafile - multihull design concepts and review. R2AK 2016 and Parallel Evolution Reports Racing. The starting horn for the second annual Race to Alaska sounded at 6:00 am, Thursday morning, the 23rd of June. 58 boats crossed the starting line and headed for Victoria, BC, the first leg of an epic 750 mile race to Ketchikan - no motors, and no support. . For a few days beforehand, The small PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Jacknife Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki,New Zealand.
PROA FILE | CATAPROA Bernd Kohler is one multihull designer and pioneer who still appreciates the virtue of thrift, and his online portfolio is full of innovative boat plans from 4.25m to 12.5m that really do provide excellent value for the dollar. His latest effort is an asymmetricalcatamaran that he
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATSMINIMUS II SEA TRIALSWAAN AELON IN MAJELSINGLE-HANDED RECORD ATTEMPT BY PROA Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to be launched from the beach and through the surf. Brimming with carefully considered details, the plywood stitch and glue construction will appeal to home builders. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, onlywith
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | THE BUG-OUT BOATSEE MORE ON PROAFILE.COM PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAW Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | CATAPROA Bernd Kohler is one multihull designer and pioneer who still appreciates the virtue of thrift, and his online portfolio is full of innovative boat plans from 4.25m to 12.5m that really do provide excellent value for the dollar. His latest effort is an asymmetricalcatamaran that he
PROA FILE | MICROMEGAS 5 Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. —Voltaire. Emmanuel and Maximilien Berque have unveiled their latest Micromegas: No. 5. Earlier incarnations of Micromegas have all been self designed and built, unballasted small craft for minimalist voyaging, and this one is PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATSMINIMUS II SEA TRIALSWAAN AELON IN MAJELSINGLE-HANDED RECORD ATTEMPT BY PROA Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to be launched from the beach and through the surf. Brimming with carefully considered details, the plywood stitch and glue construction will appeal to home builders. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, onlywith
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | THE BUG-OUT BOATSEE MORE ON PROAFILE.COM PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAW Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | CATAPROA Bernd Kohler is one multihull designer and pioneer who still appreciates the virtue of thrift, and his online portfolio is full of innovative boat plans from 4.25m to 12.5m that really do provide excellent value for the dollar. His latest effort is an asymmetricalcatamaran that he
PROA FILE | MICROMEGAS 5 Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. —Voltaire. Emmanuel and Maximilien Berque have unveiled their latest Micromegas: No. 5. Earlier incarnations of Micromegas have all been self designed and built, unballasted small craft for minimalist voyaging, and this one is PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Minimus II Sea Trials Boatbuilding Catamarans Rigs. Minimus II is an interesting design project that is now undergoing sea trials off the Oregon coast. Designed by David Omick and Pearl Mast for comfortable, if minimal, ocean transport for two in the trade winds, the boat is also carefully and creatively designed to make a minimal dent in thewallet.
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS The Pjoa Folk New Designs Boatbuilding Proas. The folks at Pjoa.eu have a nice Christmas gift for us: plans for a plywood-epoxy stitch and glue version of their beach-cruiser sailing proa:. Let us proudly share that we have made available an extensive plans set for proa PJOA FOLK. By “extensive” – they contain e.g. step-by-step building and rigging instructions. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Pacific Proa for sale Dock Ranger Proas. Here is a rare bird: a 6m (19’-8”) sailing proa for sale. Rigged as a schooner with free-standing masts, the seller states the boat features kick-up rudders, solar-electric propulsion system (range 20+ km), yuloh, ground tackle, easy motion while sailing, fast in light winds, sleeping space for one, maybe two, ample storage lockers, watertight PROA FILE | THE PROAFILE PRIMER The illustrated glossary of bilaterally asymmetrical sailboats. aerohydrofoil Sailboat concept pioneered by Bernard Smith in the 1960’s and described in his seminal work The 40-Knot Sailboat.Smith’s analysis of sailboat kinetics led him to a groundbreaking design involving no traditional sail or hull, instead utilizing solid airfoils and buoyant hydrofoils, arranged in a proa-like formation. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A proa with no name Proas Racing. UNNAMED PROA is a near 60’ racing design with a crab claw schooner rig! It’s the work of Jeremy Fischer of Martinique, who built the EQUILIBRE some 10 years back. I know little about the design except that it was originally intended to enter the Route du Rhum. PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Minimus II Sea Trials. Minimus II is an interesting design project that is now undergoing sea trials off the Oregon coast. Designed by David Omick and Pearl Mast for comfortable, if minimal, ocean transport for two in the trade winds, the boat is also carefully and creatively designed to make a minimal dent in the wallet. PROA FILE | WWII DROP TANK MULTIHULLS Did you know that American airmen stationed in the Pacific built drop-tank multihull racers during WWII? Well now you do. Thanks to Paul D. for the submission. PROA FILE | EVERGREEN Proafile - multihull design concepts and review. This year’s WoodenBoat Design Challenge III, “A Fast, Expedition Sailboat”, is a theme near and dear to my Proafile heart.Last winter, I was working up a design that fit the parameters pretty well, so when Canadian designer Laurie McGowan suggested we enter the contest, we chose EVERGREEN, a 6m (19’-8”) camp-cruiser cat. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATSMINIMUS II SEA TRIALSWAAN AELON IN MAJELSINGLE-HANDED RECORD ATTEMPT BY PROA Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to be launched from the beach and through the surf. Brimming with carefully considered details, the plywood stitch and glue construction will appeal to home builders. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, onlywith
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAWCANOE SAIL RIGCRAB CLAW SAILINGRIG
Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | HOCUS POCUS TRAILERABLE PROA We built a 40’ Pacific Proa, and it is trailerable. Last week we had our first sea-trial, the Proa went off the trailer and into the Pacific ocean water. Our proa is named Hocus Pocus , Heidi my wife said: “The boat changes directions like a hocus-pocus!”. Hocus Pocus is 39’-6” LOA, 22’-0” beam on the water, 8’-6” beamon the
PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | BEACH CRUISER RELOADED The return of Beach Cruiser - in 3D! The Beach Cruiser sketch from last March has progressed into a 3D model - my first 3D project in a long while - a good vehicle for relearning the ropes. To recap, Beach Cruiser is intended to be a multihull version of PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATSMINIMUS II SEA TRIALSWAAN AELON IN MAJELSINGLE-HANDED RECORD ATTEMPT BY PROA Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to be launched from the beach and through the surf. Brimming with carefully considered details, the plywood stitch and glue construction will appeal to home builders. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, onlywith
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAWCANOE SAIL RIGCRAB CLAW SAILINGRIG
Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | HOCUS POCUS TRAILERABLE PROA We built a 40’ Pacific Proa, and it is trailerable. Last week we had our first sea-trial, the Proa went off the trailer and into the Pacific ocean water. Our proa is named Hocus Pocus , Heidi my wife said: “The boat changes directions like a hocus-pocus!”. Hocus Pocus is 39’-6” LOA, 22’-0” beam on the water, 8’-6” beamon the
PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | BEACH CRUISER RELOADED The return of Beach Cruiser - in 3D! The Beach Cruiser sketch from last March has progressed into a 3D model - my first 3D project in a long while - a good vehicle for relearning the ropes. To recap, Beach Cruiser is intended to be a multihull version of PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS French designer Jérôme Delaunay has completed plans for a 9.9m (32’-6”) cruising proa named VAKA 990. It is a “pacific” type that includes four berths, a WC and some storage. The proa features a free-standing schooner rig of 37.25 m2 (400 sq. ft.) and central daggerboard in the main hull. Steering is via outboard mounted(Viking-style
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Pacific Proa for sale Dock Ranger Proas. Here is a rare bird: a 6m (19’-8”) sailing proa for sale. Rigged as a schooner with free-standing masts, the seller states the boat features kick-up rudders, solar-electric propulsion system (range 20+ km), yuloh, ground tackle, easy motion while sailing, fast in light winds, sleeping space for one, maybe two, ample storage lockers, watertight PROA FILE | THE PROAFILE PRIMER The illustrated glossary of bilaterally asymmetrical sailboats. aerohydrofoil Sailboat concept pioneered by Bernard Smith in the 1960’s and described in his seminal work The 40-Knot Sailboat.Smith’s analysis of sailboat kinetics led him to a groundbreaking design involving no traditional sail or hull, instead utilizing solid airfoils and buoyant hydrofoils, arranged in a proa-like formation. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A Sailing Cargo Ferry. Harryproa has an interesting cargo proa concept: an inter-island ferry/cargo vessel for East Timor.The brief calls for 10 tons of cargo and capacity for 25 passengers, primarily (but not only) wind propelled, a crew of 2, shallow draft and beach-able, built and repaired by local semi/unskilled labor with minimal equipment and easily obtained materials, and a large tender. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Original Polycon 35 in Newport Beach Catamarans Dock Ranger History. The original CSK Polynesian Concept 35 is for sale in Newport Beach, CA. This boat was designed and built for Buddy Ebsen, the actor and TV star best remembered for his role as Jeb Clampett in the CBS sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.The listing dealer appears to be banking on the star power of the yacht, but the listing is PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS SOF Outrigger Canoe Just Launched Boatbuilding Human Powered Outrigger Canoes. Brian Schulz of Cape Falcon Kayak in Oregon has been sailing Fog and Thunder, his skin-on-frame version of a Hawaiian outrigger sailing canoe.“Adapting the hawaiian outrigger sailing canoe for skin on frame construction has been a powerful and revelatory experionce for me at 20 feet long and less than 150 PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A proa with no name. UNNAMED PROA is a near 60’ racing design with a crab claw schooner rig! It’s the work of Jeremy Fischer of Martinique, who built the EQUILIBRE some 10 years back. I know little about the design except that it was originally intended to enter theRoute du Rhum.
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Proafile - multihull design concepts and review. R2AK 2016 and Parallel Evolution Reports Racing. The starting horn for the second annual Race to Alaska sounded at 6:00 am, Thursday morning, the 23rd of June. 58 boats crossed the starting line and headed for Victoria, BC, the first leg of an epic 750 mile race to Ketchikan - no motors, and no support. . For a few days beforehand, The small PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale Dock Ranger Proas. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATSMINIMUS II SEA TRIALSWAAN AELON IN MAJELSINGLE-HANDED RECORD ATTEMPT BY PROA Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to be launched from the beach and through the surf. Brimming with carefully considered details, the plywood stitch and glue construction will appeal to home builders. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, onlywith
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAWCANOE SAIL RIGCRAB CLAW SAILINGRIG
Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | HOCUS POCUS TRAILERABLE PROA We built a 40’ Pacific Proa, and it is trailerable. Last week we had our first sea-trial, the Proa went off the trailer and into the Pacific ocean water. Our proa is named Hocus Pocus , Heidi my wife said: “The boat changes directions like a hocus-pocus!”. Hocus Pocus is 39’-6” LOA, 22’-0” beam on the water, 8’-6” beamon the
PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | BEACH CRUISER RELOADED The return of Beach Cruiser - in 3D! The Beach Cruiser sketch from last March has progressed into a 3D model - my first 3D project in a long while - a good vehicle for relearning the ropes. To recap, Beach Cruiser is intended to be a multihull version of PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATSMINIMUS II SEA TRIALSWAAN AELON IN MAJELSINGLE-HANDED RECORD ATTEMPT BY PROA Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to be launched from the beach and through the surf. Brimming with carefully considered details, the plywood stitch and glue construction will appeal to home builders. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, onlywith
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAWCANOE SAIL RIGCRAB CLAW SAILINGRIG
Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | HOCUS POCUS TRAILERABLE PROA We built a 40’ Pacific Proa, and it is trailerable. Last week we had our first sea-trial, the Proa went off the trailer and into the Pacific ocean water. Our proa is named Hocus Pocus , Heidi my wife said: “The boat changes directions like a hocus-pocus!”. Hocus Pocus is 39’-6” LOA, 22’-0” beam on the water, 8’-6” beamon the
PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | BEACH CRUISER RELOADED The return of Beach Cruiser - in 3D! The Beach Cruiser sketch from last March has progressed into a 3D model - my first 3D project in a long while - a good vehicle for relearning the ropes. To recap, Beach Cruiser is intended to be a multihull version of PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS French designer Jérôme Delaunay has completed plans for a 9.9m (32’-6”) cruising proa named VAKA 990. It is a “pacific” type that includes four berths, a WC and some storage. The proa features a free-standing schooner rig of 37.25 m2 (400 sq. ft.) and central daggerboard in the main hull. Steering is via outboard mounted(Viking-style
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Pacific Proa for sale Dock Ranger Proas. Here is a rare bird: a 6m (19’-8”) sailing proa for sale. Rigged as a schooner with free-standing masts, the seller states the boat features kick-up rudders, solar-electric propulsion system (range 20+ km), yuloh, ground tackle, easy motion while sailing, fast in light winds, sleeping space for one, maybe two, ample storage lockers, watertight PROA FILE | THE PROAFILE PRIMER The illustrated glossary of bilaterally asymmetrical sailboats. aerohydrofoil Sailboat concept pioneered by Bernard Smith in the 1960’s and described in his seminal work The 40-Knot Sailboat.Smith’s analysis of sailboat kinetics led him to a groundbreaking design involving no traditional sail or hull, instead utilizing solid airfoils and buoyant hydrofoils, arranged in a proa-like formation. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A Sailing Cargo Ferry. Harryproa has an interesting cargo proa concept: an inter-island ferry/cargo vessel for East Timor.The brief calls for 10 tons of cargo and capacity for 25 passengers, primarily (but not only) wind propelled, a crew of 2, shallow draft and beach-able, built and repaired by local semi/unskilled labor with minimal equipment and easily obtained materials, and a large tender. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Original Polycon 35 in Newport Beach Catamarans Dock Ranger History. The original CSK Polynesian Concept 35 is for sale in Newport Beach, CA. This boat was designed and built for Buddy Ebsen, the actor and TV star best remembered for his role as Jeb Clampett in the CBS sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.The listing dealer appears to be banking on the star power of the yacht, but the listing is PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS SOF Outrigger Canoe Just Launched Boatbuilding Human Powered Outrigger Canoes. Brian Schulz of Cape Falcon Kayak in Oregon has been sailing Fog and Thunder, his skin-on-frame version of a Hawaiian outrigger sailing canoe.“Adapting the hawaiian outrigger sailing canoe for skin on frame construction has been a powerful and revelatory experionce for me at 20 feet long and less than 150 PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A proa with no name. UNNAMED PROA is a near 60’ racing design with a crab claw schooner rig! It’s the work of Jeremy Fischer of Martinique, who built the EQUILIBRE some 10 years back. I know little about the design except that it was originally intended to enter theRoute du Rhum.
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Proafile - multihull design concepts and review. R2AK 2016 and Parallel Evolution Reports Racing. The starting horn for the second annual Race to Alaska sounded at 6:00 am, Thursday morning, the 23rd of June. 58 boats crossed the starting line and headed for Victoria, BC, the first leg of an epic 750 mile race to Ketchikan - no motors, and no support. . For a few days beforehand, The small PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale Dock Ranger Proas. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATSMINIMUS II SEA TRIALSWAAN AELON IN MAJELSINGLE-HANDED RECORD ATTEMPT BY PROA Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to be launched from the beach and through the surf. Brimming with carefully considered details, the plywood stitch and glue construction will appeal to home builders. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, onlywith
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAWCANOE SAIL RIGCRAB CLAW SAILINGRIG
Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | HOCUS POCUS TRAILERABLE PROA We built a 40’ Pacific Proa, and it is trailerable. Last week we had our first sea-trial, the Proa went off the trailer and into the Pacific ocean water. Our proa is named Hocus Pocus , Heidi my wife said: “The boat changes directions like a hocus-pocus!”. Hocus Pocus is 39’-6” LOA, 22’-0” beam on the water, 8’-6” beamon the
PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | BEACH CRUISER RELOADED The return of Beach Cruiser - in 3D! The Beach Cruiser sketch from last March has progressed into a 3D model - my first 3D project in a long while - a good vehicle for relearning the ropes. To recap, Beach Cruiser is intended to be a multihull version of PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATSMINIMUS II SEA TRIALSWAAN AELON IN MAJELSINGLE-HANDED RECORD ATTEMPT BY PROA Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to be launched from the beach and through the surf. Brimming with carefully considered details, the plywood stitch and glue construction will appeal to home builders. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, onlywith
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAWCANOE SAIL RIGCRAB CLAW SAILINGRIG
Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | HOCUS POCUS TRAILERABLE PROA We built a 40’ Pacific Proa, and it is trailerable. Last week we had our first sea-trial, the Proa went off the trailer and into the Pacific ocean water. Our proa is named Hocus Pocus , Heidi my wife said: “The boat changes directions like a hocus-pocus!”. Hocus Pocus is 39’-6” LOA, 22’-0” beam on the water, 8’-6” beamon the
PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | BEACH CRUISER RELOADED The return of Beach Cruiser - in 3D! The Beach Cruiser sketch from last March has progressed into a 3D model - my first 3D project in a long while - a good vehicle for relearning the ropes. To recap, Beach Cruiser is intended to be a multihull version of PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS French designer Jérôme Delaunay has completed plans for a 9.9m (32’-6”) cruising proa named VAKA 990. It is a “pacific” type that includes four berths, a WC and some storage. The proa features a free-standing schooner rig of 37.25 m2 (400 sq. ft.) and central daggerboard in the main hull. Steering is via outboard mounted(Viking-style
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Pacific Proa for sale Dock Ranger Proas. Here is a rare bird: a 6m (19’-8”) sailing proa for sale. Rigged as a schooner with free-standing masts, the seller states the boat features kick-up rudders, solar-electric propulsion system (range 20+ km), yuloh, ground tackle, easy motion while sailing, fast in light winds, sleeping space for one, maybe two, ample storage lockers, watertight PROA FILE | THE PROAFILE PRIMER The illustrated glossary of bilaterally asymmetrical sailboats. aerohydrofoil Sailboat concept pioneered by Bernard Smith in the 1960’s and described in his seminal work The 40-Knot Sailboat.Smith’s analysis of sailboat kinetics led him to a groundbreaking design involving no traditional sail or hull, instead utilizing solid airfoils and buoyant hydrofoils, arranged in a proa-like formation. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A Sailing Cargo Ferry. Harryproa has an interesting cargo proa concept: an inter-island ferry/cargo vessel for East Timor.The brief calls for 10 tons of cargo and capacity for 25 passengers, primarily (but not only) wind propelled, a crew of 2, shallow draft and beach-able, built and repaired by local semi/unskilled labor with minimal equipment and easily obtained materials, and a large tender. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Original Polycon 35 in Newport Beach Catamarans Dock Ranger History. The original CSK Polynesian Concept 35 is for sale in Newport Beach, CA. This boat was designed and built for Buddy Ebsen, the actor and TV star best remembered for his role as Jeb Clampett in the CBS sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.The listing dealer appears to be banking on the star power of the yacht, but the listing is PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS SOF Outrigger Canoe Just Launched Boatbuilding Human Powered Outrigger Canoes. Brian Schulz of Cape Falcon Kayak in Oregon has been sailing Fog and Thunder, his skin-on-frame version of a Hawaiian outrigger sailing canoe.“Adapting the hawaiian outrigger sailing canoe for skin on frame construction has been a powerful and revelatory experionce for me at 20 feet long and less than 150 PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A proa with no name. UNNAMED PROA is a near 60’ racing design with a crab claw schooner rig! It’s the work of Jeremy Fischer of Martinique, who built the EQUILIBRE some 10 years back. I know little about the design except that it was originally intended to enter theRoute du Rhum.
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Proafile - multihull design concepts and review. R2AK 2016 and Parallel Evolution Reports Racing. The starting horn for the second annual Race to Alaska sounded at 6:00 am, Thursday morning, the 23rd of June. 58 boats crossed the starting line and headed for Victoria, BC, the first leg of an epic 750 mile race to Ketchikan - no motors, and no support. . For a few days beforehand, The small PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale Dock Ranger Proas. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATSMINIMUS II SEA TRIALSWAAN AELON IN MAJELSINGLE-HANDED RECORD ATTEMPT BY PROA Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to be launched from the beach and through the surf. Brimming with carefully considered details, the plywood stitch and glue construction will appeal to home builders. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, onlywith
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAWCANOE SAIL RIGCRAB CLAW SAILINGRIG
Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | HOCUS POCUS TRAILERABLE PROA We built a 40’ Pacific Proa, and it is trailerable. Last week we had our first sea-trial, the Proa went off the trailer and into the Pacific ocean water. Our proa is named Hocus Pocus , Heidi my wife said: “The boat changes directions like a hocus-pocus!”. Hocus Pocus is 39’-6” LOA, 22’-0” beam on the water, 8’-6” beamon the
PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | BEACH CRUISER RELOADED The return of Beach Cruiser - in 3D! The Beach Cruiser sketch from last March has progressed into a 3D model - my first 3D project in a long while - a good vehicle for relearning the ropes. To recap, Beach Cruiser is intended to be a multihull version of PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATSMINIMUS II SEA TRIALSWAAN AELON IN MAJELSINGLE-HANDED RECORD ATTEMPT BY PROA Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to be launched from the beach and through the surf. Brimming with carefully considered details, the plywood stitch and glue construction will appeal to home builders. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Boatbuilding Proas. Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, onlywith
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A New 6m Cat From Pjoa. Cat 600 is the latest design from Pjoa, and their first offering that is not an outrigger! Like all their boats, the 6m long double canoe employs their highly evolved crab claw sail. Designed for day sailing and camp cruising, the canoe is intended to PROA FILE | PROA RIG OPTIONS: CRAB CLAWCANOE SAIL RIGCRAB CLAW SAILINGRIG
Its superiority increases when the boat bears away, and on reaching, with the heading angle 90 degrees, the driving force coefficient of the crab claw is about 1.7, whereas that of the Bermuda rig is about 0.9. That is, the crab claw rig delivers about 90% more PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | HOCUS POCUS TRAILERABLE PROA We built a 40’ Pacific Proa, and it is trailerable. Last week we had our first sea-trial, the Proa went off the trailer and into the Pacific ocean water. Our proa is named Hocus Pocus , Heidi my wife said: “The boat changes directions like a hocus-pocus!”. Hocus Pocus is 39’-6” LOA, 22’-0” beam on the water, 8’-6” beamon the
PROA FILE | BURT RUTAN’S SKIGULL FLYING BOAT A flying trimaran named the SkiGull. The amphibious airplane is a “dream plane for Rutan and his wife, Tonya, a newly-minted seaplane pilot. Together, they plan to tour the world and land virtually anywhere they desire, not just at airports.”. The most unique design feature of the amphibian is a pair of extendable water skis that are PROA FILE | BEACH CRUISER RELOADED The return of Beach Cruiser - in 3D! The Beach Cruiser sketch from last March has progressed into a 3D model - my first 3D project in a long while - a good vehicle for relearning the ropes. To recap, Beach Cruiser is intended to be a multihull version of PROA FILE | MAREINOA: A PROA FOR CRUISING Manfred . Hi Mark, thanks for your interest. Regarding the tension of the stays that is a really good question because the system is obviously statically overdefined. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS French designer Jérôme Delaunay has completed plans for a 9.9m (32’-6”) cruising proa named VAKA 990. It is a “pacific” type that includes four berths, a WC and some storage. The proa features a free-standing schooner rig of 37.25 m2 (400 sq. ft.) and central daggerboard in the main hull. Steering is via outboard mounted(Viking-style
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Pacific Proa for sale Dock Ranger Proas. Here is a rare bird: a 6m (19’-8”) sailing proa for sale. Rigged as a schooner with free-standing masts, the seller states the boat features kick-up rudders, solar-electric propulsion system (range 20+ km), yuloh, ground tackle, easy motion while sailing, fast in light winds, sleeping space for one, maybe two, ample storage lockers, watertight PROA FILE | THE PROAFILE PRIMER The illustrated glossary of bilaterally asymmetrical sailboats. aerohydrofoil Sailboat concept pioneered by Bernard Smith in the 1960’s and described in his seminal work The 40-Knot Sailboat.Smith’s analysis of sailboat kinetics led him to a groundbreaking design involving no traditional sail or hull, instead utilizing solid airfoils and buoyant hydrofoils, arranged in a proa-like formation. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A Sailing Cargo Ferry. Harryproa has an interesting cargo proa concept: an inter-island ferry/cargo vessel for East Timor.The brief calls for 10 tons of cargo and capacity for 25 passengers, primarily (but not only) wind propelled, a crew of 2, shallow draft and beach-able, built and repaired by local semi/unskilled labor with minimal equipment and easily obtained materials, and a large tender. PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Original Polycon 35 in Newport Beach Catamarans Dock Ranger History. The original CSK Polynesian Concept 35 is for sale in Newport Beach, CA. This boat was designed and built for Buddy Ebsen, the actor and TV star best remembered for his role as Jeb Clampett in the CBS sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.The listing dealer appears to be banking on the star power of the yacht, but the listing is PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS SOF Outrigger Canoe Just Launched Boatbuilding Human Powered Outrigger Canoes. Brian Schulz of Cape Falcon Kayak in Oregon has been sailing Fog and Thunder, his skin-on-frame version of a Hawaiian outrigger sailing canoe.“Adapting the hawaiian outrigger sailing canoe for skin on frame construction has been a powerful and revelatory experionce for me at 20 feet long and less than 150 PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS A proa with no name. UNNAMED PROA is a near 60’ racing design with a crab claw schooner rig! It’s the work of Jeremy Fischer of Martinique, who built the EQUILIBRE some 10 years back. I know little about the design except that it was originally intended to enter theRoute du Rhum.
PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Proafile - multihull design concepts and review. R2AK 2016 and Parallel Evolution Reports Racing. The starting horn for the second annual Race to Alaska sounded at 6:00 am, Thursday morning, the 23rd of June. 58 boats crossed the starting line and headed for Victoria, BC, the first leg of an epic 750 mile race to Ketchikan - no motors, and no support. . For a few days beforehand, The small PROA FILE | A SMALL SOLO FISHING OUTRIGGER CANOE The beams are lashed to the main hull in the traditional fashion - with rope. The beams extend out past the hull and ama in order to facilitate carrying the canoe up the beach, and to carry long fishing spears on the hull side. The hull alone weighs 16kg (35lb). Fully assembled and ready for the water the canoe weighs in at 29kg (64lb). PROA FILE | MULTIHULL BOATS Gaia’s Dream For Sale Dock Ranger Proas. Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case.Toggle navigation
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27 August 2019 0 comments. LASHUNK FROM BALKAN SHIPYARDS UPDATE Rael Dobkins of Balkan Shipyards sends us a video update on his shunting junk rigged proa: > WE MADE IT! The new proa rig from Balkan Shipyards. Pacific proa> ‘Make
> O’Break’, LaShunk rigged and showing off….. No secrets! Keep> Shunting -BSY.
Congratulations BSY. Reconciling the world’s easiest handled rig to the world’s most difficult hull platform. Who’d a thunk? Rael’s driving concern with this rig is shifting the CE (centerof…
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06 June 2019 3 comments. POOR-POISE: A HARDWARE STORE OUTRIGGER _A reader sends in his account of repurposing plastic canoe and kayak with hardware store parts to obtain a sailing outrigger. A Home Deproa! Thanks for the submission. -Ed_ My name is Mason, I’m 25, and I work as a preschool teacher. I first started sailing at summer camp when I was growing up, and I’ve been looking for a way to enjoy it as an adult ever since. A few years ago I bought a 1978 16’ Hobie Cat catamaran, but I ended up…outriggers
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03 April 2019 6 comments.THE BALTIC TEPUKE
A Tepuke sails on the Baltic. This seems like fulfillment of the ancient prophecy _“When a crab claws the northern sea then the dreaded Old Ones shall return.”_ Or something.—
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02 April 2019 2 comments. MINI CARGO FERRY FROM HARRYPROA Here’s another cool project from Harryproa : > The mini cargo ferry was designed in response to a need to replace > the outboard powered fibreglass skiffs which are ubiquitous in the > Pacific. These boats are expensive to run, difficult to maintain > and have almost completely destroyed the islanders boat building and> sailing skills.
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28 March 2019 3 comments. WILL THE OZ GOOSE FLY? Iain Henehan continues his foiling experiments with an Oz PD Goose, an ultra-simple 12ft (3.5m) plywood club sailing dinghy designed byMichael Storer .
> The Goose was introduced as a larger family version of the OzRacer > some 6 years ago. But it was overlooked as “just a bigger > OzRacer” until three years ago when Ian Henehan in Texas started > to put videos of the boat going very fast with one on board (up to > 12.9 knots) and sailing well…hydrofoils
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24 March 2019 0 comments. BUCCANEER 33 SEEKING CAPTAIN This 1987 Crowther Buccaneer 33 is an unusual find for the Pacific Northwest. According to the listing it was built in 1987 of wood/glass/epoxy and stretched two feet to 35. > Spring is here! Just in time for R2AK, you can race to Alaska, and> win.
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24 March 2019 0 comments. SAILING CANOE MODELS BY FRANCIS PIMMEL Francis Pimmel makes pretty darn gorgeous models of Pacific sailing canoes, from the famous Hawaiian voyaging canoe recreation Hokule’a to flying proas of Micronesia. Order one for your boardroom. Much thanks to Paul D. for the submission!pacific
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12 March 2019 3 comments.A PROA WITH NO NAME
UNNAMED PROA is a near 60’ racing design with a crab claw schooner rig! It’s the work of Jeremy Fischer of Martinique, who built theEQUILIBRE
some 10 years back. I know little about the design except that it was originally intended to enter the Route du Rhum. The very narrow hull features an extreme wave-piercing bow, no doubt a nod to the submarine like experience of sailing the boat fast in a seaway . A few of the construction pics…proas
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11 March 2019 0 comments. QUIQUEC - OUTRIGGER CANOE Browsing through Youtube I discovered this charming 5.6m outrigger canoe named QUIQUEC, uploaded and built by Norbert Rettig of Hockenheim, DE. The 12 square meter lug rig is wonderfully old school but the canoe moves very well even so, and the low center of effort would certainly be appreciated with the lovely torpedo-shaped low-volume ama. All the spars, ama and beams fit neatly inside the hull for storage and transport on the roof…outriggers
11 March 2019 0 comments.JACKNIFE
Ian Aitken’s JACKNIFE is “the world’s first 11m, folding, trailerable proa with freestanding wing mast”. Although inspired by Rob Denney’s Harryproas, the craft was designed and built by Ian and ‘Barn Job Innovations’ of Taranaki, New Zealand. Well named, the craft unfolds like a Swiss Army Knife, only with more moving parts. Read more at Harryproa Much thanks to Pc for the submission!——
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