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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....
Hi all, How many list members would be interested in having hulls, for any of the Harryproas, produced from a mould ( That's mold for our American brethren )...
A proa has been reported sailing in St Georges basin just South of Nowra, NSW. About 30' or so, black hull with a red stripe. Any clues as to its identity? ...
I don't mean any harm, but how many harryproas are sailing not just building that don't belong to Rob Denney? I am fascinated by this discussion but the world...
Rob, Can you estimate the minimum time to assemble and rig a Harry without folding beams against having folding beams. ALso I am considering putting a 7.5m...
On the two types of proas. What is the recommended water line beam width of the weather hull is it a percentage of the lee hull beam water line? Is the over...
WE are still kicking around ideas on how to get adequate force/ power out of the sails without busting my height limit of 64 ft. Rob is going to get some...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
