... Many of the American schooners Of the 18th century had extremely raked masts, and must have been hard to luff as well. Anyone know anything about them? ...
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michael.lovrich@...
Dec 1, 2000 3:02 pm
... Many of the American schooners of the 18th century had extremely raked masts, and must have been hard to luff as well. Anyone know anything about them? ...
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michael.lovrich@...
Dec 1, 2000 3:24 pm
All: I've been playing with the twin-Bolger, balanced jib thing I threw out to committee a few weeks back, and believe I've developed a way to swap...
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Othmar Karschulin
karschulin@...
Dec 1, 2000 8:32 pm
Excuse me please, the correct URL is http://www.multihull.de/story/st_e1lanka.htm Othmar...
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Michael Schacht
michael@...
Dec 1, 2000 10:58 pm
That sounds like a great trip, Othmar. Thanks for putting the story in English. -- Michael Schacht http://www.schachtdesign.com/proafile The ProaFile:...
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Othmar Karschulin
karschulin@...
Dec 2, 2000 2:22 pm
Hi Michael, yes - it was a great trip, and especially to study and sail these traditional outriggers. BTW I would ask the proa_file round, 'what's your opinion...
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John Dalziel
johndl@...
Dec 2, 2000 3:58 pm
Othmar, I don't think we have overlooked anything here, but instead our "modern" proclivities have pushed our designing toward lightness and speed. Several...
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Michael Schacht
michael@...
Dec 2, 2000 6:46 pm
Hi all, I finally got the ProaFile updated. This is the Rig Issue, that includes the infamous proa rig ratings table. There are also articles about the crab...
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Dave Culp
dave@...
Dec 3, 2000 7:04 am
Killer edition, Michael! I especially like the salute to J.S. Taylor. What a beautiful boat. I *really* like your reporting style. Direct, accurate and to the ...
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Brian Southwood
briansou@...
Dec 3, 2000 8:23 am
Michael, Great edition! I have a couple of old articles by J.S.Taylor from June 1975 and March 1976 editions of South African Yachting. I can scan them and...
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Michael Schacht
michael@...
Dec 3, 2000 6:54 pm
Peter, I would love to see those articles!! Please send them my way when you get the chance. Were any of Taylor's proas built? Difficult to tell. I have never...
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Frank Sarnighausen
sarnighausen@...
Dec 3, 2000 9:03 pm
Othmar The virtue of multihulls is speed, motivated by a WL beam about 13 times less than LWL. The boat will pierce the waves and not float over them, like...
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Roy Mills
rsirfj@...
Dec 3, 2000 10:35 pm
Just got back from a 3 week holiday and fought my way through a very large number of e-mails, many of them from the proa group with tantalising references to a...
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Othmar Karschulin
karschulin@...
Dec 4, 2000 1:27 pm
Hi Michael, congratulation to the new Rig issue of ProaFile. May be I have additional to Brian Southwoods infos about Taylor's Proas annother article from the...
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Brian Southwood
briansou@...
Dec 4, 2000 6:14 pm
Othmar, I would like to see your article by JS Taylor. Perhaps you could upload it to proa_file to the file JSTaylor which I have created for the files I...
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Gary Dierking
garyd@...
Dec 4, 2000 11:18 pm
... I don't know of any others but would love to see a scan of that article if possible. A "quick and dirty" proa is still one of my holy grails and that may ...
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John Dalziel
johndl@...
Dec 5, 2000 2:54 am
This story is a week or so old, but I just ran across it. Excerpts below; the complete article is at: ...
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Michael Schacht
michael@...
Dec 5, 2000 4:33 am
I'd be interested in seeing it as well. Combining the Inuit and Micronesian cultures is an interesting concept. -- Michael Schacht ...
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Roy Mills
rsirfj@...
Dec 5, 2000 5:06 am
John's posting about the archeological discoveries in French Polynesia reminds me of a thought I had a while back. As I recall an article in the proceedings of...
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Malcolm Smith
mal@...
Dec 5, 2000 8:08 am
Has anyone consieed using the 'geodesic ultralight' method of construction? I don't have any specific references but I think it has appeared in Wooden Boat...
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Malcolm Smith
mal@...
Dec 5, 2000 8:08 am
Michael, Congratulations on an excellent piece of work! Would you consider tackling the 'Atlantic' vs 'Pacific' hull configuration issue in a subsequent...
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Arto Hakkarainen
ahakkara@...
Dec 5, 2000 8:57 am
... that may ... Take a look at http://www.kolumbus.fi/timo.noko/omatekema98/ where you can see a selfmade foldable kayak made with skin on frame technic. And...
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Ron Badley
badley@...
Dec 5, 2000 3:40 pm
Check out, <http://www.geodesicairoliteboats.com/> This the geodesic guy. Some of the boats that will be used for rougher service have the bottoms built from...
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Sam and Dave and Morgan
rsrddsmcs@...
Dec 5, 2000 5:16 pm
There are also some people doing somewhat bigger boats, I've seen a umiak up to over 1/2 ton capacity. At the Port Townsend show I saw kayaks up to about 8...
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Roy Mills
rsirfj@...
Dec 5, 2000 8:14 pm
... From: R Hepler <roberthepler@...> To: Roy Mills <rsirfj@...>; proas <proa_file@eGroups.com> Cc: multihulls <multihulls@...> Sent:...
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gdham
gdham@...
Dec 5, 2000 11:42 pm
I am very impressed with the rig presentation on Michael's web page. Good info and excellent pictures. I been trying to mentally work out the details on...
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Dave Culp
dave@...
Dec 6, 2000 3:11 am
... I've used this method for building lightweight wingsails. They were *very* light (32 sf = 8 lbs, all-up, including enough butrate dope to get an...
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John Dalziel
johndl@...
Dec 6, 2000 4:41 pm
... Question: why do you need more than one windward guy? Is it for redundancy? If so, run them parallel to ganged attachment points as on Waan Aelon Kein: ...
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Michael Schacht
michael@...
Dec 6, 2000 6:03 pm
... My proa Rozinante has beams spaced 8' apart. I am using a single windward stay that attaches to each beam with a bridle, via a block at the end of the ...
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Greg Blanchette
abuzz@...
Dec 6, 2000 8:16 pm
One thing to consider with a pivoting mast is that it automatically acts like a crane during a shunt, picking up the sail so that the yard doesn't drag in the...
