Well,

It starts lighter than 7 tons, when you add all the creature
comforts my estimation is fully loaded (6) adults full water, fuel &
provisions gets you in the 6-7 ton range. Just depends on how
comfortable do you want to be ?

Generators, inverters, air conditioning, heating, water, sanitation
(holding tanks), serious aux drives, fuel, hot water and my
favorite plasma TV pretty well bloats out the boat. I am not a
minimalist ! The antenna stub mast could look like a christmas
tree covered with ornaments !

But the proa could be optimized to use that weight to advantage
(some advantage) on the windard hull. So it isn't all bad, just
mostly bad.

Buy a plans kit and get started this winter, time is wasting !
Gives Rob excuse to visit Europe. By the way I will be in
Germany 10 Nov - 15 Dec for work but get some time off. My
German is poor, my French very bad. Visited Luxemburg and
found out how bad it had become.

Regards,

JT

--- In harryproa@..., "Rob Denney"
<proa@i...> wrote:
> G'day,
>
> You have come to the right place. A Visionarry would do would
you want, with ease, and a lot lighter than 7 tonnes.
Plywood/foam/plywood is a good way of getting a flat surface on
a flat panel, but otherwise is heavier, more expensive and more
work than strip planking or glass/foam/glass.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ronald
> To: harryproa@...
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 1:42 AM
> Subject: [harryproa] a newbie in again
>
>
>
> Good day
>
> hi
> long ago with egroups
> I've been in some proa groups
>
> so
> still
> looking is there a chance
> for 4 and 2 kids
> with modern comfort
> eg watermaker, fridge etc
> to build a proa?
>
> would be I do guess
> 7-9 or 10 european tons displacement
>
> maybe plywood foam plywood
>
> do have a barn
> 20 meters long
> lots of place
> we are only 3 miles from the waterfront
>
> Ronald
> Barbara
> and Julien
> living in France
> but not french at all
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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