Is everyone too busy sailing/building/working to catch the Harry group up on life, the universe, and everything? Peace, Mitch watching the frost on the ports...
Hello Rob - Had a look at Bains job, He's starting to smile and look pleased with himself and the results and so he should. The end is in sight. There's heaps...
Hey Mark - We'll be wandering down Bello way this weekend and would like to crawl around Harry. Could you check with Bain to see if this is OK and give us a...
Thanks for the update Michele The standard of finish on the painted hulls looks great. Beautiful smooth lines and clean reflections are a sure sign of great...
How strong how light and of what material should the beams be going to the weather hull on a 16' equal L an 8 ' beam ? I know I know its only 16' but thats...
Nothing wrong with triangular beams. We will be using them on the Elementarry's with carbon rods in the corners and foam webs. The main reason for using them...
G'day, I appreciate it may be jumping the gun a little (OK, a lot) but I posted the following as part of an update on the Multihulls list so thought I had...
Re Harry and cruising not racing. I like the sound of having two masts and Junk rigs.Maybe it's because it's been a heavy day and I'm knocked up - just want to...
Hello How does a tiller feel when steering with a rudderboard? What do you think about having a daggerboard(s) in ww-hull? This way it could be possible to...
One of the constraints for trailering is being able to fit the lw hull alongside the ww under the wing deck. If the ww hull was slighly fatter below with more...
We're talking Harry and cruising not racing. If your not after heaps of bunks, {like just a double and perhaps a single in lee hull with twin rig } is it...
Rob, You mentioned on the proa file that the rudders when in reverse sculled well. I could imagine with both sets of rudders facing backwards and the the rear...
Gidday I have just been to the Sanctuary Cove boat show. The boys from Schionning have their new twin rigged 8 meter cat there. It has some good ideas. ...
G'day, Effective immediately, my new email address is proa@... Anyone who has not received a reply to a message sent in the last 3 weeks should resend...
... Hi Jim, As the beams are curved the clearance varies from 780mm at the ww end, 820mm at the lw end with a maximum clearance of 860mm. The bridgedeck and...
For my small Harry I an considering having the hulls exactly at the 2.5m max towing width and having either a fold-out or slide out ww accommodation pod- a bit...
I recently tried to back my 5m Jarcat with an outboard. Half a knot if I was lucky compared with 10 knots forward. Getting off a beach with an outboard in...
John suggested renaming a thread started in 'motors'. What are the best ways to limit hobbbyhorsing? The low bottom bracket on the rudders has neen suggested...
Thank you for the offer to forward my questions to the Yahoo discussion group. I think that some or all of the following questions may be most suitably...
I was looking again at the rudder supports and realised that when the sails and boat are loaded up then the lower support would be clipping the waves. I...
G'day, There is an excellent article on this by Nigel Calder in Professional Boat Builder, a superb magazine which is free to industry members outside the USA,...
Rocker or no rocker on a eql 16' narrow flat bottom windward hull. I was thinking no rocker but then thought because the the short length the motion in a sea...
G'day, The pins are sacrificial, to allow it to kick up in a collision. The top hinge could not be too high, or the blade would hit the beam. The holes are ...
Under my mother's house at the coast I have a 6.5m aluminium mast and a 3.5m mast section, unfortunately not the same section. The are both 13cm from front to...
I was admiring the way the wheel has been incorporated into the ruddere case and the way the ruddercases have been assembled. I presume they are sacrificial...
Michele, tell us more about the "... vacuumed foam/glass using our cheap female moulding process ..." listed on your site: Plan set #14 & #15 - Custom design...
The recent thunderstorms and being fairly close to some zapped trees got me thinking of how carbon fibre masts with spectra rigging perform around lightning....
