Your percentage of the weight goes up as the boat gets smaller.

I'm not sure there is a dinghy version of any multihull?

--- On Mon, 2/6/08, gardnerpomper <gardner@...> wrote:

From: gardnerpomper <gardner@...>
Subject: [harryproa] Teaser plans
To: harryproa@...
Date: Monday, 2 June, 2008, 2:30 AM

I have been thinking that the harryproa concept is just at the point where it could start
expanding quickly, but what is holding it back is that people are unfamiliar with the whole
proa idea, much less the difference between the harryproas and the traditional Atlantic
and Pacific proas.

I think it would be a great marketing coup if someone could draw a set of really, really
simple plans that would only take a hundred hours or so to put together a really, really
simple harryproa. Not a competitor to the Elementarry, just something that people could
slap together and try out the idea. If the hulls could be made out of one piece of foam,
glassed on both gunwhales, unglassed at the keelson and bent up. Two alloy tubes as
crossbeams, flat decktops, and an alloy mast with a sleeve sail. Simplest rudders to do,
just mounted in the lee hull. No kickup, no lifting, just 360 degree turn. Sell the plans for
next to nothing ($100, $200) and get a bunch of people out there building one.

This would give potential buyers something quick to try it out, and everyone who saw one
sailing would come and talk to the owners about the concept.

Make it clear in the plans that this is a "relatively" low performance design, and if they
want true adrenaline rush speed, they should look at the Elementarry.

My $0.02.

- Gardner