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Proa File | R2AK - April Update
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R2AK - April Update. GALLERY Click images to enlarge. The Race to Alaska - only 40 days until the June 4 starting gun! The new boats are finally getting splashed, the first hurdle of many to come. Follow Team Pure and Wild. On their Facebook page. On their Facebook page. Don’t miss the Pre-Race Ruckus in Port Townsend on the third, though get there early, I imagine the racers will be hitting the hay early for their 5:00 am start the next morning! Keep me in this conversation via email. Poland Proa Raid 2...
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Proa File | The Iditarod with a chance of drowning
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The Iditarod with a chance of drowning. GALLERY Click images to enlarge. The Wave Writer - Kurt Hoehne. On the R2AK and its founder, Jake Beattie, and the Brown/Bieker proa of Team Pure and Wild. -Editor. There’s no big safety equipment checklist (there is a little one, however). There are no scantlings to adhere to, no nanny boats to accompany the fleet. The race organizers are leaving it to the competitors to manage the dangers themselves. Continue reading article at: Northwest Yachting. 23 May - 17:31.
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Proa File | Richard Newick’s first try
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Richard Newick’s first try. GALLERY Click images to enlarge. This is TRINE, the first trimaran design of Richard C. Newick. Still going strong as a day charter boat in St. Croix, USVI, over four decades later. Not bad at all for plywood, and a damn good first try. Thanks to Bob W. at Boat Bits. If you have some shots of interesting historical multihulls, send them in! We’d love to post them. Keep me in this conversation via email. 23 May - 14:00. Here is a early picture under sail. Poland Proa Raid 2014.
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Proa File | The Foil Alphabet
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GALLERY Click images to enlarge. Rudders and centerboards with hydrofoils, profiled arms, wing masts… after the 34th America’s cup, it would be easy to say “we are in the age of wings”. And now it’s not only on multihulls but also on monohulls! However, wing masts and hydrofoils on sailboats are not a new invention. In 1913 Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin built. A hydrofoil sailing model. In 1938, Robert Rowe Gilruth, the “father of America’s human space flight”, built. Project Cheers: 2016 Editi...
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Proa File | The Flying Boat
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GALLERY Click images to enlarge. Of Nantes, France, aims to improve the speeds of passenger vessels by harnessing the flow of apparent wind. The catamaran employs planing stepped hulls similar to a seaplane, but the resemblance to a flying machine doesn’t stop there. The central bridgedeck is carefully shaped into a wing that creates aerodynamic lift and reduces both displacement and drag:. The flying saucer-like shape of the vessel is certainly arresting. Keep me in this conversation via email. Interest...
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Proa Sailing: Artistic licence can bring peace, yes?
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Sustainable Seafaring from Oceania. History, Design, and Relevance. November 11, 2016. Artistic licence can bring peace, yes? Found far along in an image search for proas - an idylic, if not strictly accurate, piece by Fronckowiak. On a page of his titled "Loose Tropical". Found here: http:/ www.marilart.com/index.php. The first ever ballpoint pen sketch. The New Tack video. But now we're evolving. To be determined. Ode to Proa? Who knows - let's just have fun with this. The new byline is. The follow-up ...
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Proa Sailing: Historic proas
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Sustainable Seafaring from Oceania. History, Design, and Relevance. August 09, 2016. Some good historic photos here:. Http:/ www.multihull.de/proa/history/p history.htm. Historische Proas - Ancient Outriggers". Plenty of photos here. I only picked these two because the sharpness of the hulls caught my eye. Plenty of lateral resistance, eh? The first ever ballpoint pen sketch. The New Tack video. But now we're evolving. To be determined. Ode to Proa? Who knows - let's just have fun with this. The follow-u...
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Proa Sailing: Coincidence, Derivation or Convergent Evolution?
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Sustainable Seafaring from Oceania. History, Design, and Relevance. Coincidence, Derivation or Convergent Evolution? My title for this page is joking, of course, but I do think it a bit striking that the 3 pictures below are so similar! Don't know the source of the first drawing. The second is from a book, Return to the Islands. The third is an old photo. An Aldo Cherini drawing? Don't know where the above is from. From Chapter 3 of Return to the Islands. Return to the Islands. By Sir Arthur Grimble:.
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Proa Sailing: Bikinian boats in 1946
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Sustainable Seafaring from Oceania. History, Design, and Relevance. December 02, 2016. Bikinian boats in 1946. The first ever ballpoint pen sketch. The New Tack video. Some video, finally. This is my first and only take and theres no narration. Please pardon the amateurish quality. It was my first v. That's how this site began - to document my attempt to adapt or modify the traditional Micronesian proa sailing rig for the single or short-handed crew. But now we're evolving. The new byline is. Because ...
