Well, you'll have convinced me to be open minded and at least try out the Pacific proa concept. Can I use any of these surplus parts to get started; Sunfish...
... Welcome to the fold! You could indeed use your scrap boats to build a Pac proa. And if you are only doing it to see if it works, and get some experience ...
... Oh, I didn't know that it is so old! However, I realise that the idea is well-known. I mentioned Wolf because he was the first I heard about and his boat...
... discussing ... me. ... of shunt, ... knowledgeable ... want to ... I havn't checked in for awhile and I just saw this. I have a dragonfly 15. I am...
Marks Musings Ply versus strip planking debate. I saw an article on an interesting development of ply construction, it was in the Junk rig journal and...
Rob, likr the ideas for racing Harry, looking forward to the photos. Your boats are getting a lot more photogenic, gues this one will be even better, shoild...
... I have spent many an hour musing on the best way to form rounded corners. Me, too. My favourite idea (I haven't tried it)is to put 5 - 10 cm foam on the...
- Hi Mark. Multi chine bottom might get close to the efficiency of round. I made-up a simple prototype long ago, and radiused the chines a bit. More chines,...
Hey Doug, That's quite a site. I'm surprised I haven't come across it before. How well did the variable-geometry steering work? I can see it functioning on up-...
... How well ... on up- and ... force and the ... your main page! ... round. I ... bit. More ... chine logs, ... under "Formless ... sketching, and ... ...
-Something made my last message disappear. Oops. That was a 1977 haircut. I'm old and fat, now. As I recall, the proa wanted to go upwind with the ama...
... G'day Doug, I see that your original hull was symmetrical about its longitudinal centreline and I wondered had you considered the "tortured plywood" method...
Hi, ... I always liked this method. My proa was built of even more tortured ;-) plywood. It was something like a traditional technology of Indian canoes. I...
Oops, sorry, I sent unfinishef message... ... I always liked this method. My proa was built of even more tortured ;-) plywood. It was something like a...
Hello, ... I like the idea of aerodynamically controled rigs, too. I made some experiments with scaled models, and they were successful. Notice that my...
... does not lose all that much in surface area, though the sharp edges are probably the worse culprit in poor performance over a perfect half circle. The...
I had an idea a while ago for building a tortured hull that had built in assymetry. I don't really have a use for such a hull, but it occured to me that if a ...
... hull of ... resistance ... are ... I am not very familiar with the inside workings of Michelet. The program will not run on a mac, even in emulation...
... simply ... great ... traction ... Thanks for the kudos. This is an interesting question who's answer may surprise you. The very first kiteboat I...
... I ... sketching, ... surface ... This is exactly how I built my proa last year. It's 21' loa, 12" max beam at the wl, out of selected 1/8" doorskin ply...
Fulgencio, The drawing http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proa_file/files/Mal%20Smith/wingsail.jpg shows a self trimming wing rig I designed, It uses a trim tab to ...
... Very elegant solution. It works as a kind of 'active stability'. The aerodynamical parameters of the two parts together seem to be much better than for a...
It was just a lot more trouble and time to build than I thought <BR> it would be.<BR> I used inferior epoxy on my first stressed hull, it looked great, and it...
... <snip> . The first hull took ... Interesting insight Thomas, There was a publication on the 'Liberty' ships built during WWII where the first ship in many...
Krzys, I have not tested this design as shown with the trim tab controlling the forward element. I have however tested a soft sail ballestron rig (model)...
"seek & find" and "thinking time"? I'm sure it will help everybody.<BR> The amount of time spent on those catagories is...
... wrote: <HR> <html><body> <tt> ... <ycarle2002@y...> wrote:<BR> > Has anyone got more <BR> > information on the above subject? e.g. ...
Hello I've finished the article for http://www.sail-ho.pl I wish I could put many interesting images there, but there is not enough space for all of them. I...
