Gary Thanks for great video. It is very impressive sailing and nice example of proa selfsteering. There are planns for short prelection about Pjoa sailing...
Everything the best in New Year. I'm starting another Pjoa project :) Old Pjoa was like lagoon canoe from Kiribati, Inspired very much by "Toroa" by Harmen...
Here's wishing you all fair winds and a very happy 2007. The 20-25 kt winds and unfrozen lakes have me thinking about a New Year's sail, although I would...
... seaworthy than the current Pjoa? What will be the major design changes? (hull shape? length?). ... flexible. ... are lashed athwart the vaka (providing, I...
I can e-mail a copy of the video to you, but it's about 12 megabytes, if you think it'll go through. I also have a 6 megabyte pdf file, that details the whole...
Me too, please. Perhaps it could be posted in the Files folder? Jim Baltaxe 8 Knoll Street Island Bay, Wellington NEW ZEALAND +64 (04) 934 1407 027 563 5018 ...
I will send the walap file to anyone who wants it, but you'll have to e-mail me privately because Yahoo keeps hiding half of your addresses and won't allow...
... ...... nobody ! having any idea at all about aero dynamics would possibly be even thinking about using a square section mast ! that the crudest type of all...
... Czesc Wade My aim is to ride at the sea (near the coast:) at force 4, and manage force 5B still feeling safe. Pjoa is exciting up to force 5B on flat...
... Czesc Carlos Thanks for remider. My french in of no good at all. I can learn from pictures which you kindly downloaded in may 2006 to proafile5/Equilibre2,...
I have loaded to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proa_file6/files/Pjoa800/ the concept of new Pjoa. Please feel strongly invited to comment, criticize, propose...
Hi Gary I'm sorry but my ISP (VUW) seems to have blocked that free storage site and will not let me download anything from it. It also marked the original note...
i came across this today is a 27ft cat with a spar supported rig, I found it interesting anyway. Built a few years ago. http://www.dngoodchild.com/5666.htm by...
I like the idea of the dory outrigger. I have been thinking along the same lines with Michalak's Piragua. It is 18 x 3, so a bit finer. It allows you to paddle...
Jim I'd like to take some load from, whose outbox can be in trouble soon ;) If I your addrss haven't changed from 2004 and your mailbox can accept 6MB posts,...
... dory.. ... boat to the shore and leave off the outrigger if the winds was no good, and have a seaworthy rowing craft, or use the outrigger for sailing....
Hi Peter I've seen this photo before and have been intrigued by the rig. I am puzzled, though, about the foot of the sail. Is that a small, partial boom, more...
Cesc Janusz Oops, my request was directed to Gary, directly, and he has been kind enough to send it to me. Thanks anyway. Enjoy Jim Baltaxe ITS Desktop Support...
Hi! If I may, can I interest anyone into checking out some pics? This is a series of photos taken on Guam from November 2006 to just recently January 2007....
Beautiful! Seldom do we see the real thing being built. The hull looks uncommonly thick, nearly two inches, in some of the photos. What were the dimensions...
... This is dangerous nonsense. Suggest you Google "Beam Theory" and you will see various academic explanations of what happens in the materials resisting...
... Are you referring to the keel piece or the finished canoe? The keel is thick because it is a work in progress. When the planks are added, then the hull...
