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The logic of Madness

 Just Launched  Designers  Proas

John Harris of CLC has taken delivery of his screaming yellow 31’ proa ‘Madness’ from Sea Island Boatworks in Charleston, NC, and says he’s looking at about a month of fitting out before the maiden sail.

Madness was inspired by, and designed in direct consultation with, proa guru Russell Brown.  The design is a fusion of his 30-foot plywood Jzero design from the 1970’s, his more-refined cold molded 36-footer Jzerro, from 1993, and my…

Madness proa on trailer

28 August 2011     0 comments.

Hydrofoils on proas

 Hydrofoils  Proas

This is Patrick Cudmore’s Seaflier, a solid wing, canted rig, hydrofoil proa built in 1984.

Neither hydrofoil sailboats nor canted rigs are particularly new, but Cudmore’s lightweight proa-configured craft with its cantilevered, articulating wingsall and inverted, elliptical arch, surface-piercing foils offers a glimpse of a future made possible by sophisticated design and strong but light composite plastics. -Keith Taylor, SAIL…

Cudmore foiler

20 August 2011     0 comments.