http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/ a wiki for proas en http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/feedlogo.gif http://pbwiki.com/ PBwiki 3.7 support@pbwiki.com http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/external+links no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited external links Mal Smith's Mi6 proa; which features an unstayed balestron rig with a variation on the boom I've never seen before, Atlantic configuration, and a host of other features. The web page says it was an entry into a 1993 design contest, and it still looks cutting edge all these years later.
CLC Boats' proa Mbuli. I sailed behind the first Mbuli in the first Watertribe race, across Tampa Bay. She had some outrageous amount of area just in the wing masts, and went smoking off across the bay with no (soft) sail up at all. Doing great, until she broke a rudder on a sand bar. Very sad. Since then there's been at least two more built, one in Chicago and one in Australia.
A neat blog by an Mbuli builder in New Zealand. Text, pics and videos, very nice.
James Wharram's Melanesia, a 16' tacking outrigger by the fameous catamaran designer.
Joe Henry's Flaquita page; Flaquita is a trailerable tacking outrigger, not a proa, but is a pretty thing of admirable simplicity and elegance. Had there been plans]]> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:57:46 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/external+links no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited external links The Virus Proa. Despite its name, this is a tacking outrigger rather than a proa, with a trimaran option. The site has a nice short clip of one in outrigger configuration flying a hull for a few seconds.
Maora tacking outrigger, a 3 m long tacking outrigger, also with a trimaran option. Good pictures, interesting two part curved mast. Neat little boat.
Bedlam, winner of the SCA/Duckworks design contest #7 for an Everglades Challenge boat.
P-52, Skip Johnson's entry in the same SCA/Duckworks design contest. Skip has a wikiproa page here.
Doug Taylor's Port Madison Proa, an entry in the Duckworks Design contest #6.
General boating links:
Mark Balogh's kayak sail kits. Very well built expedition style outriggers and sail kits.
]]> Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:34:01 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/Georges++WaApa+in+South+Carolina email.hidden@example.com (george schnellman) george schnellman edited Georges WaApa in South Carolina And a picture with a rough seat inserted:
I have some cherry leftovers laying around. It seems like a good choice for the boat. It is closed pore so it takes a finish nicely. And it looks good. Here is a mockup of the bow, followed bya picture of it under construction. The idea is a carrying handle and a place to tie off a line or attach a jib:
into teh the bag in teh the shop. It also sets up a lot faster than the Raka. I lost more in teh first 5 oz batch of West than in the entire two quarts of Raka. I was going to make an entry about always having a bunch of parts laying around that will be coated at some point. That way if you have some excess you have a place to use it rather than letting it set in the mixing cup. With West this does not seem to be an issue. issue.
Here is the current status of the hullls as of July 17, 2008:
--Current design dilemmas:
1. How to build the bulkhead 1's to allow for an opening hatch. I am thi]]> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:31:07 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/Georges++WaApa+in+South+Carolina email.hidden@example.com (george schnellman) george schnellman edited Georges WaApa in South Carolina Bike Week is coming to a close, so there will probably be more Segway tours to soak up my time. I hope to get at the other breasthook today. I also started looking at parts for the sailing rig. I found an aluminum framework that begged me to by it. I think it is a keyboard stand for some kinf of mobile band. Two 5' legs on the ends, hinged at the top. Three keyboard holders with swivels running between them. Various castings for hinges, braces, etcc. All black anodized aluminum. One keyboard holder has already been turned into the middle of a tram to transport my sister's elegant punt across the beach. I am going to use two aluminum rods for paddles. One leg and some braces will be the stub mast for my sailing rig. I can even use the stabilizer rod and fixtures as a high tech forward stay for the stub mast. I love recycling.
Speaking of paddles, a little finishing has been done on the paddle for turning corners. The shaft is a laminating project from a boatbuilding school in Kennebunkport, Maine. I thought]]> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:28:52 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/Rosario-s++WaApa email.hidden@example.com (Rosario) Rosario edited Rosario-s WaApa Near there are the rudder and the leeboard (the white thing).
The stem section painted
The raised mid section with yakos and the rudder blade:
Some details
]]> Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:35:18 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/Rosario-s++WaApa email.hidden@example.com (Rosario) Rosario edited Rosario-s WaApa This other photo is for one of the outriggers (better it's a half outrigger because outriggers also are in two sections).
Near there are the rudder and the leeboard (the white thing).
The stem section painted
The mid section with yakos and the rudder blade:
Some details
]]> Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:29:38 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/Texas+200 no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited Texas 200 Day 5:
Day 5 was easy. Out the ICW, then almost dead downwind to the beach. We had to shunt a couple of times, so we didn't put up the jib. Shunting as a cat schooner is very fast and easy, but raising and lowering the jib is still not well worked out. Part of that is the jib halyard cleats being on the wrong side of the masts for this trip, part of it is just that I don't have even the routing of the lines sorted out yet, so we get stuff all twisted when raising and lowering the jibs. At any rate, we still made good time. Southern Skimmer passed us in the bay, and Dan's Hobie passed us when we were sailing by the houses in the ICW:
17 behind us in coming into the ICW:
I don't know why I don't have any video of this, I think I lost the camera for a while.
Messabout:
]]> Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:24:47 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/Texas+200 no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited Texas 200 Our last camp. Sigh. We had just got everything organized and set up correctly on the boat, all the food in the food bag, the tools we would need near at hand, the VHF and the GPS and the binoculars and the sunscreen and a few bottles of water all easy to get to, then the last night we just shoved everything into whatever bag it would fit in for the last day. Too bad. I had some clothes in a black plastic garbage bag to keep them dry; inevitably, they got mixed up with the garbage and got thrown away at Magnolia Beach. I got them back Saturday. Sadly for me, some nice ripe shrimp guts and heads had been added to them before they got thrown away. One feels one might wash that particular load about six times before it seems clean. Still, I'm glad I didn't lose my favorite Hawai'ian shirts. Aren't you glad, too? I'm sure you are.
Day 5:
the ICW, but ICW:
but we arrived ahead of everyone else. I Here's Pete and Tim in the CS 17 behind us in the ICW:
I don't]]> Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:23:21 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/Texas+200 no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited Texas 200 I put the boat on the 'beach' side, which is here:
It was a very fine, very wild camp, since the only way to get there is by boat. Much evidence of wildlife, lots of birds, still (!!) no mosquitos, I got one horsefly bite. One bug bite for the whole trip. Unreal.
saw was what I think was a burrowing owl, which I hope to have pictures of soon. He was really cool, quite big, and quite sure that once he was burrowed into the grass on the shore that we couldn't see him, even if we were five feet away looking right at him. We wouldn't have seen him, either, had we not seen him fly in there and hunker down.
Our last camp. Sigh. We had just got everything organized and set up correctly on the boat, all the food in the food bag, the tools we would need near at hand, the VHF and the GPS and the binoculars and the sunscreen and a few bottles of water all easy to get to, then the last night we just shoved everything into whatever bag it would fit in for the last day. Too bad. I had some clothes in a]]> Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:54:51 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/external+links email.hidden@example.com (Kevin) Kevin edited external links Proa-centric web pages and personal proa pages (pages about proas for which plans are not offered):
Joe Oster's proa links; of particular interest to me are the manyarticles and pictures of Russell Brown's boats. There are also many links to pictures of and articles on historical and modern proas, and a summary of Joe's side of his proa design disagreements with Rob Denney, the Australian proa designer.
Schacht's proafile proa Proafile web page, with lots of early online including a proa discussion archived, and several articles on rig comparison glossary, a blog which usually points me to something I'm glad to have seen, and lots of other interesting stuff.
Gary Dierking's outrigger blog. Kites, outriggers, paddle and sail, always something interesting. And a pointer to our Texas 200 wiki page. Thanks Gary!
Harmen Hielkema's blog "Canoes of Oceana", which tells about his boat Toroa and quite a bit more besides]]> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:33:42 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/external+links email.hidden@example.com (Kevin) Kevin edited external links Openboat, primarily monohull sailing pictures that are so stunning they will make you want to move to New Zealand. Seriously.
Canoe sailing e-zine. Covers all sorts of canoe sailing. Registration required.
rowing/sailing boats. boats suitable for traditional boat raids.
Small boat sailing raids and multi-day races:
The Watertribe. The Everglades challenge is the best known of the WT races, but there are several others listed. Also an active forum and records of previous events. Big, well organized small boat raid. The first Everglades challenge was in 2001.
]]> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:20:37 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/external+links email.hidden@example.com (Kevin) Kevin edited external links Trilobyte series of ultra-simple monohulls Whacky and cool, very fast to build, interesting stuff.
Kris Seluga's crab claw catamaran. Homemade carbon spars and an A-frame crab claw rig, neat and attractive wood hulls, something of a low aspect ratio beach cat intended to be an easier boat to sail than a Nacra. Last updated in 2004.
Ray Aldridge's Slidercat, a 15' 10" sprit rigged catamaran. Nice little design, dory style hulls and moderate sail area. There are too few simple minimal cruising multihulls like this, it seems like as soon as someone decides to build a cat or a tri or a proa they also decide it has to do 25 knots and have a square top main and fly two thousand square feet of sail downwind.
Openboat, primarily monohull sailing pictures that are so stunning they will make you want to move to New Zealand. Seriously.
Canoe sailing e-zine. Covers all sorts of canoe sailing. Registration required.
]]> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:18:43 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/external+links email.hidden@example.com (kevin) kevin edited external links]]> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:56:10 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/external+links email.hidden@example.com (kevin) kevin edited external links That's still true. However, a kind soul has pointed me to Eric Wolfram's How To Score Higher in Google Search Engine (and why Google is saving the web) page, which seems to me to indicate that I should in fact link to things I think are useful, in order to help people find me out here in the great wildness of the Web. So, without trying to duplicate what Joe has done, I'm going to copy my list of personal proa links here, then add to them as the urge hits me. If you're a wikiproa member please feel free to add your favorites.
Proa-centric web pages and personal proa pages (pages about proas for which plans are not offered):
the many letters manyarticles and pictures he has of Russell Brown's boats. There are also many links to pictures of and articles on historical and modern proas, and a summary of Joe's side of his proa design disagreements with Rob Denney, the Australian proa designer.
Michael Schacht's proafile proa web page, with lots of early online proa discus]]> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:54:33 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/external+links email.hidden@example.com (kevin) kevin edited external links Jeremie Fisher's Equilibre page. In French and English. An excellent example of a modern, good sized crab claw proa. Even includes a game to introduce you to steering a crab claw boat! Wow! Somewhat fancy web page, may cause some trouble on older or slower machines or dial up connections.
Des Jours Meilleurs, a large (63 feet!) French proa with two Atlantic crossings to her credit. Impressive big boat, very functional. Particularly interesting to me, since I ended up with the same rig she carries, a schooner with a jib, though I didn't know it until I'd settled on the rig. Parallel evolution, I guess. Also includes an appendix on a "baby proa" tender.
to me are meis his page on Slingshot and Crossbow.
Timothy Kingman's K-Proa page, a force-balanced proa based on the work of Bernard Smith.
Building a Ndrua in one day, on the Instructables site. Good pictures.
]]> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:53:30 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/external+links email.hidden@example.com (kevin) kevin edited external links That's still true. However, a kind soul has pointed me to Eric Wolfram's How To Score Higher in Google Search Engine (and why Google is saving the web) page, which seems to me to indicate that I should in fact link to things I think are useful, in order to help people find me out here in the great wildness of the Web. So, without trying to duplicate what Joe has done, I'm going to copy my list of personal proa links here, then add to them as the urge hits me. If you're a wikiproa member please feel free to add your favorites.
Proa-centric web pages and personal proa pages (pages about proas for which plans are not offered):
pictures of and articles of on historical and modern proas, and a summary of Joe's side of his proa design disagreements with Rob Denney, the Australian proa designer.
Michael Schacht's proafile proa web page, with lots of early online proa discussion archived, and several articles on rig comparison and other interesting stuff.
Gary Dierking's ]]> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:52:32 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/external+links email.hidden@example.com (Kevin) Kevin edited external links]]> Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:48:55 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/external+links email.hidden@example.com (Kevin) Kevin edited external links Dave Culp's speedsailing page. I'm not sure it belongs here in the 'Personal Proas' section, but I don't think he offers plans either. Dave sails highly powered kite proas in sanctioned speedsailing competitions. Neat stuff, and lots of history of proas, kite powered and otherwise. Particularly interesting to me are his page on Slingshot and Crossbow.
Timothy Kingman's K-Proa page, a force-balanced proa based on the work of Bernard Smith.
Building a Ndrua in one day, on the Instructables site. Good pictures.
Proa designs, by professional designers and others:
I want to emphisize that no judgement is made on suitability, design evaluation or anything like that by inclusion in this list. I'm not qualified to make such an evaluation; I'm not sure anyone is, at this point. If it's a boat, it's an outrigger of some sort, the designer is selling plans or kits or entire boats, and there's a web page for it, I'm putting it here. Some of these have had prototypes built, some have not. Some shunt]]> Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:47:29 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/external+links email.hidden@example.com (Kevin) Kevin edited external links Openboat, primarily monohull sailing pictures that are so stunning they will make you want to move to New Zealand. Seriously.
Canoe sailing e-zine. Covers all sorts of canoe sailing. Registration required.
Raid Boats: Contenders – Victors & Wannabes PDF article by Thom Vetromile on monohull rowing/sailing boats.
Small boat sailing raids and multi-day races:
The Watertribe. The Everglades challenge is the best known of the WT races, but there are several others listed. Also an active forum and records of previous events. Big, well organized small boat raid. The first Everglades challenge was in 2001.
The Tybee 500 is, I think, the successor to the Worrell 1000.
Sail Caledonia, The Scottish Raid. "A unique challenge for small sail and oar boats"
Shipyard School Raid, "An Annual 7 Day Sailing and Rowing Race for Traditional Small Boats" in British Columbia. Columbia.
The Archipelago Raid, held in the Scandinavian islands, ra]]> Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:23:36 +0000 mod http://wikiproa.pbwiki.com/external+links email.hidden@example.com (Kevin) Kevin edited external links Harvey Golden's Fijian Thamakau Project, an interesting skin on frame crabclaw proa, 14' 6" long. Harvey is an expert on Greenland style skin on frame kayaks.
Fog and Thunder, a skin on frame tacking outrigger canoe by Brian Schultz.
S. Fishwick's Nimanoa, a15' proa. Interesting development, and good summary of lessons learned at the end of the page.
Craig O'Donnell's American Proas page, including some very interesting history of some early (1880!) versions of American copies of Micronesian ideas, and some old magazine articles on proas. Well worth perusing, lots of scanned it text not available elsewhere on the net.
Craig O'Donnell's main site, The Cheap Pages, which include some proa links and historical scans. Sadly, some of his internal links seem to be dead. I hope he's just moving, rather than shutting down.
Jeremie Fisher's Equilibre page. In French and English. An excellent example of a modern, good sized crab claw proa. Even includes a game to introduce you to steering]]> Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:56:42 +0000 mod