Hi All, It has been awhile since my last post and I've been dong a lot of reading since then. Firstly I read the entire contents of the forum. Some of the...
No groans from here, I love other people experimenting with new ideas, saves us doing it :>). All your ideas sound like fun to play with. We may be building a...
I'm off to Darwin on Saturday and it will be a little while before I can get a full size shed to work in to build a Harry. Meantime I was considering building...
G'day, ... Still no real conclusions, but the schooner works well. I was out on Friday in 15 knots of breeze, clocked 16.5 on the gps. Sails still pretty...
G'day, All sounds good to me. All the bits you mention are in the plans. Cedar and polycarbonate make excellent hatches, lighter and cheaper than commercial...
... experimenting with new ideas, ... "If it's not a proa, it'll probably be slower" ... Well ... If y'all's gonna play wit dese woids, yiz betta loin to spell...
Hello guys, I started building the lovely visionarry but due to a set of unfortunate circumstances have had to cease construction. Consequently, I am forced...
G'day, I have ben thinking about shallow water sailing as I am in Darwin with some very nice areas that occasionally shoal out. A beach cat type proa with a...
Sorry , I meant to post this to the proa file. I was actually thinking of a modified Elementarry with a slight assymetry and approaching a deep V -- ... with ...
Hi Bob G We're a bit late due to excess of work, but we're delivering in january the third of 3 cats, that were late and plan to continue with Arripiado proa...
Hi All, BacK after a while. See the list is somewhat quiet. Must be all building or sailing I guess. I see Farrier is finally going to make the 22 footer...
Sailing in my case. Tried a beam mounted rudder today. Steers the boat very well, but a few details still to sort. Max speed 12 knots in 10 knots of breeze...
ed to design a foil suitable for getting the ww hull up on the plane. I think it can be done but becomes pretyy mechanically complex as you have to have means...
... boat very well, but a few details still to sort. Max speed 12 knots in 10 knots of breeze so I am slowly getting the bugs out. Went past an International...
I have been told a few times by learned authorities that schooner rigs don't point well :-) Yesterday it was a Foundation 36 (well equipped quick keel boat...
... hull. No foils required. ... After exploring how to stick a foil on, that is clearly the better option. Still, I had to do the mental exploration because...
If using polyprop honeycomb, the vertical strip as used by Farrierlooks pretty good, Yes, but glassing the bottom and topsides in one side full length on a...
No prices on Arripiado (they keep getting paid for big cats, spec proas go on the backburner) or Elementarry (quite possibly going to be the best finished...
... Yes, shotover II didn't (doesn't) 'point' well. When Adrian Rogers sailed it I observed that he 'pointed' a bit lower than the boats around him. His VMG to...
Checked out prices and engineering details of polycore. 2.6MPa compressive strength and 0.5MPa sheer seems pretty good value when 2/3 the price of Kiri strip...
G'day, Spoke to Bob August at Polycore yesterday. He reckons vacuuming is no problem, resin into the core is minimal. I am not sure we (or anyone else) have...
... I really hope to see it sailing now ! Nicolas...
Nicolas Vivier
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Dec 1, 2005 6:14 am
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Congratulations ! Looking very good, well done Mark. I am very eager to hear about her behaviour under sail. Do you have the sails allready? regards, Rudolf ...
Thanks. Yes the sails are ready. In fact I bent the main on yesterday and she sets very well putting a nice curve into the mast. Weather here is atrocious so...
