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To all of you, Me thinks this forum has gone to sleep..........Time to stir the opinion juices ! Or are we "mass" lurking ? The next Visionarry in the...
33 Dec 15, 2003
3:03 am

rob denney
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It seems much of the debate on best methods revolves around getting a fair hull with minimum effort. Strip plank seems to be valuable in that it is relatively...
5 Dec 5, 2003
5:11 am

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Gidday An Idea for different hulls from the same mould Kurt hughes uses a "cylinder mould" method to produce both the ama and main hull for trimarans from the...
18 Dec 1, 2003
12:55 am

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Hi All Just came across this little toy and thought it might be worth a chuckle: http://www.converge.org.nz/hpvcanterbury/photo08.htm Enjoy Jim Baltaxe ITS...
1 Nov 13, 2003
11:29 pm

Jim Baltaxe
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Would it be possible to truncate the lw side of the ww hulls with a flat side to exactly 2.5m for towing. This would still provide almost the same sleeping...
8 Nov 13, 2003
2:03 am

Rob Denney
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G'day, ... Or an inattentive helmsman! ... There are a few options for extras when racing. I will be trying a few of them this summer, all going well. Any...
9 Oct 30, 2003
12:06 am

Robert
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Hello all, On the subject of free-flying kites and HarryProas (This is a commercial post. If commercials offend you, please delete); Robert, yes, kites can...
4 Oct 29, 2003
1:58 am

Jim Baltaxe
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As stated in your background on why a weight to windward proa, part of the value of a Harry proa is to reduce the load on the cross beams. With stays from...
14 Oct 21, 2003
1:04 am

Robert
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Well, I have been looking at rigs to try on a small camping proa and I am leaning towards a balanced rig like the one used on the Mi6. My main questions are...
32 Oct 17, 2003
10:12 pm

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Possibly the engineering of post stresssed concrete beams using carbon for the compressive component and spectra for the post tensionining could give something...
3 Oct 15, 2003
7:24 am

Robert
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I would like more details on the original concept prototype. Could the design be used as a small camping Harry. Did you ever get the bunks/sleeping bags ...
10 Oct 14, 2003
5:26 pm

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Message ist nicht gekennzeichnet. [ Nachricht kennzeichnen - Als ungelesen kennzeichnen ] going on down the road to extinction in less then a million years ...
1 Oct 13, 2003
9:31 am

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Rob, I could not find the thread over on the Proa forum you refer to below. Give me a date or subject please. Thanks Bob G. ... From: Rob Denney...
3 Oct 12, 2003
12:10 pm

Rob Denney
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Enough is enough! This is a Harryproa forum and Fritz needs to go on and get his jollies elsewhere. The mission of the forum is posted as: "... This forum...
13 Oct 11, 2003
7:55 am

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... Aha... another SOF fan! We'll get some momentum yet.... Let me know if you want to trade ideas. Dale Dale...
2 Oct 10, 2003
6:12 pm

Mike
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`There is nothing that is more certain a sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different' Einstein IT'S WRONG...
3 Oct 10, 2003
5:11 pm

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FOr a racing ww hull, it seems to me that they are begging for a foil to cut through the tp of the chop instead of bouncing. If it is on a swinging crossbeam...
4 Oct 10, 2003
1:55 pm

Rob Denney
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I was wondering if the balance of a Harryproa with a single sailboard type sail could be improved with two masts. If each mast was lined up with a crossbeam it...
40 Oct 10, 2003
9:14 am

Rhisiart Gwilym
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Rob and others, With reference to this pic (taken from harryproa.com): http://author.rokstraps.com/docs/visionarry.gif ... I assume you have thought about...
6 Oct 10, 2003
12:25 am

Rob Denney
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Hi all, I haven't introduced myself yet . just quickly, I am a keen multi sailor (lately have raced Farrier F-31s), small boat dabbler and recent proa convert....
3 Oct 9, 2003
9:21 pm

jp j
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Initiall I thought a slight full length pod in the lee hull would aid in righting until I did some calculating about the effect this would have on the...
4 Oct 9, 2003
6:21 pm

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Well Someone has posted some ergo drawings in the files section they'll be there for 24 hours download them if you need them. or if they will be of use for...
1 Oct 9, 2003
6:46 am

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<I'm not sure I agree. Hard to explain stock car racing, where the <cars are always munching up and flipping. I will admit that putting <some logos underneath...
6 Oct 9, 2003
5:23 am

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In reply to proa constrictor, I plan on building something trailerable that is slightly better on accommodation than the Harrigami. I am considring a stretched...
9 Oct 8, 2003
5:12 pm

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I can see the Ultimate-Trailable-Harryproa now. The boat pulls up at the ramp dock, eliciting the usual "what in the blue blazes is that?" from the hangers-on...
2 Oct 8, 2003
5:32 am

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Not sure how far back the string goes, but for my $.02 AUS, the biggest issue to overcome would be surface deformation. Really squirrely things can or will...
3 Oct 8, 2003
5:13 am

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... Hi Matt, I'm afraid I can't really, having no scanner nor drawing software. Plus the fact that the little free time I have is spent in reading 3 times the...
12 Oct 8, 2003
2:31 am

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... Would you agree that this is a problem common to all multihulls, not special to harryproas? If so it seems to me that you can find your answer by looking...
1 Oct 8, 2003
12:00 am

Robert
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Hi All, below is an extract of a mail I sent to Rob some months ago. Similar ideas seem to be floating in the air recently in the Harryproa group. I know it...
18 Oct 7, 2003
9:27 pm

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... with stand G Force ... <That's a wild exageration, and again we are talking about extreme <racing. If I ever see a icture of Rob with his eyes filled with ...
4 Oct 7, 2003
5:26 pm

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