... How are you going to maintain the angle of attack of your foil? My experience shows that such a foil (especially fore-aft symmetric) is rather unstable. I...
Hi Roy, How was your summer? What projects have you been up to? Is the Mill creek sailing? How about the Catamaran project in the back yard? Did you decide...
Hi Timothy, I'm not working on a full size proa at this time too. Although I have paper modells of both I actually didn't decide yet weather to start with a...
... Hi Ed Sadly, the Photos section is full. Happily, we have an overflow group. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proa_file2/ join, and post to your...
... symmetric) ... stabilising foils ... The foil (I assume you mean the paddle) is only a surface sensor, used to control the cant angle of the sail. It...
... Hi Dan, What is your current home email address, I will gladly fill you in on things here, but non proa Roy...
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... Hi Dan, Please contact me off list. My reply is fairly long. Cheers Roy...
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I have a 380cm Surfboard with an total displacement of 280 liters and want to build a PROA like system with this board as outrigger. Now I am not sure wich is...
... How big are you planning to build? 380cm is a very long and buoyant outrigger. ... It seems to me as too little sail area. I am current trying to adapt two...
Hi Bernd, As for gluing the sheet metal for a prototype (in my case, 8 meters), I'm not familiar with the adhesives that are available today. What kind of...
... I did some work in this area some years ago. The sheets were bonded with a contact adhesive tape. 3M makes the tape. It is called VHB which means very high...
Hi Todd Came back form holidays and got out from a stack of mails. There is such a lot of interesting relations on the Group !! I'm now back with Pjoa but...
Welcome back Janusz. There are not too many posts in thr group these days. Glad to hear of your steady progress. I've just had my second rig failure of the...
Yep, it's hard for me to stay away from anything to do with Ama's And considering them (Ama's) to be the essential component characterising a PROA....bugger...
Hi, I have a 21 foot, narrow symmetrical hull, Philippino outrigger (in Tagalog, 'bangka'). The outriggers are symmetrical too, or as much as bamboo can be....
Hi Toni Very adventurous solution with sliding massteps. Pity it didn't work yet. I wonder why you bend masts to leeward as it make forces in maststep bigger. ...
... It was not intended. Just lack of adjusment of shrouds. The day of the final failure the mast were dead vertical. ... I thought of that. The problem I see...
Hi All I just joined this group when I started getting interested in proa's. I live on a channel going to a large lake and found out about the Raptor 16 while...
Hi Toni ... rigid bar. It seems to me that attaching mastheads makes all mechanics of rig easier (add the bar a the fots to form a rigid triangle <?>) and it...
Sweet proa the raptor is... I watched John rig and sail his prototype a while back. Just totally awsome craft and so is his slatts 22. I have built somthing...
Janusz, Welcome back. I here ya on the contemplating on what goes where and how. I somtimes find my self just standing starring at my canoe for extended...
Sorry for the cross post for you multihull boatbuilder members. Well I've got the first of two Ulua hulls complete. I've stretched them out to 21' which gives...
... From: Janusz Ostrowski To: proa_file@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:58 AM Subject: [proa_file] Re: Ama again....... Hi Toni ... ...
Toni, Experiment with sailboard rigs that I have done may be of interest to you. Check SouthernOutrigger in files (Proa file 1) No multiple mast set up's there...
... Consider having a pair of cross beams about 8 feet apart. These would be joined by some fore and aft bits that also hold the tramps on. This whole assembly...
... makes ... on ... would be ... whole ... and come ... about 12' ... assembly that ... bolt on ... 2' each ... your bum ... sailing. Or, ... I really like...
... Look at the Flaquita pictures, there's a neato roll up tramp idea there. It looks very quick to put together and roll out of the way when one wants to...
Thanks for the ideas. I guess you are refering to picture "EVOLUTION 3". Do you have any close ups? It is kind of small to appreciate the details. How is the...
