Hello Everyone, Well, this was a long time coming - I hope you all find something of interest in the latest updates at www.harryproa.com ; a.. Elementarry and...
Hi Rob Good on ya. I'm still waiting for the camping Elementarry (if that is still its name) and will look forward to any more progress reports. Or for a...
Thanks Michelle, Love the latest version of the Harry and hope to see the Visionarry in the flesh in June when I am up that way. Are the little one's available...
G'day, We can certainly supply all the materials, and any parts which may be difficult (mast, beam structural members). Very roughly, the cost would be, in...
-I have to be in Ballina on the 24th for a conference. We may just cross if I can get to Coffs before it rather than after it. Robert ... be ... would be, ... ...
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...
G'day, Sculled well is an exageration. They scull. Never tried them in tandem as I am usually solo. Far better performance was got sitting on the beam and ...
Your comments here and in previous posts appear to be very critical. Which is a good thing when those interested in/designing/building proas start dreaming a...
I happen to be born a Kiwi clown myself, I can't see a great deal of difficulty in making those pedal props with the twisted chain, but I don't think I'd get...
... Me too. ... Bit prone to damage, as well, I think. A yuloh really appeals, I used to scull my 1.5 tonne 9m cat, but only in zero breeze. Also built a...
... pretty ... You could put wings to ww with enough counterbalance to fly the lw hull, minimising wetted area in light breezes. Still don't think it would...
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...
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...
... Yes & I've seen video of Ian tossing it overboard. Flapper & I got half a knot out of XL2 standing on the Denney patented crapper platforms paddling with...
G'day, No problem with the concept, either design or engineering. On Harry it would be a little quicker to build, would be less windage, less weight, and much...
G'day, I never said it was easy! And they didn't throw it away until they were past the Kimberleys, from where they could expect reasonable breeze for the ...
G'day, Junk rigs may be the way to go for reduced loads, except they are hopeless upwind, and probably even more hopeless as a schooner. The multiple sheets ...
-I was thinking of a way for easy access from the water and I thought of a series of steps up the bow that had enough flex and shape to act like small one way...
... OK, I give up. I had enough trouble trying to understand the single-ended version. What's a ring step? Sounds like a flopper-stopper or whatever they're...
... thought ... act ... step, ... it ... double ... Dave, Thanks for trying to understand what I was surmising. Yes, the step is the flopper stopper for the...
... FYI, and sorry to be offtopic for harryproa, there was a story in the US Multihulls magazine some years ago (between 3 and 12) about a swedish (or vicinity...
... along ... Part of ... derived ... front ... is a ... quickly and ... purpose. ... 12) about ... was ... IIRC ... That would be Kjell Dahlberg. See his...
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. ...
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...
G'day, Steering with a tiller board is no different to steering with a rudder, in my experience. Harry rudders are bigger than normal rudders, but not by much...
G'day, The Spronk one was for wimps. It was a hole in the bridgedeck. You stayed dry and had little or no chance of getting your tonsils backwashed, a ...
