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Arpex | The blog of Rio de Janeiro based Peter Mirow: design and build of a sailing outrigger canoe.
Brett Marine Design | Based in Auckland, New Zealand, James Brett is a marine designer specialising in multi-hull sailing and power boats which are affordable, fast, practical, and efficient.
Canoes of Oceania | Harmen Hielkema blogs about his native-inspired proas from New Zealand.
Cape Falcon Kayak | Skin-on-frame kayak designs and building lessons on the Oregon Pacific coast. Excellent.
Cheap Pages | Craig O'Donnell's collection of bamboo, junk rig and proa pages - includes a proa FAQ, American proas, and more.
Chesapeake Light Craft | Wood/epoxy kayak kits and plans. 30+ boat kits, including canoes, rowing and sailing craft, and proas.
Des Jours Meilleurs | 'Des Jours Meilleurs' is a 63' (19m) proa with two Atlantic crossings.
Fair Winds Trading Company | "Our aim is to evolve and to demonstrate an ethical and sustainable method of international and intercontinental trading. Fair Winds Trading Company will transport goods by sea with the use of ecologically sustainable renewable energy." Saving the world by proa.
FWI Proa | Equilibre - 38' (11.7m) Crab claw rigged racing/cruising proa sailing in the French West Indies. Very cool.
Godiva Chocolatier | 34' Newick Atlantic proa, capsized enroute to 1980 OSTAR. After languishing on a beach in the Caribbean is now being restored.
Golden Oldies Multihulls | An association dedicated to the history and preservation of racing multihulls from the 60's, 70's and 80's. In French.
Half Past Human | Q'oki-oki, the double outrigger, crab claw umiak. Also aliens, reptilians and apocalypse - something for the whole family.
Inigo Wijnen | Big proas for ocean voyaging and expeditions, built and operated with sustainability in mind.
K-Proa | Site by Timothy Kingman about his model experiments and development of a force-stabilized proa.
Kat & Proa | Turning a Canadian canoe into a sailing outrigger with some help from Gary Dierking's book: 'Outrigger Sailing Canoes'. In German.
Le Prao Petrel | Playing with a proa and crab claw rig in France. Plenty of video and pics for non francophones.
Malibu Outrigger Manual | Techniques of Sailing and Racing the Malibu Outrigger - the official 1968 manual!
Mehrrumpfboote | German site that covers the Euro multihull scene, with an excellent Proa-Spezial section.
Outrigger Sailing Canoes | The blog of Gary Dierking, designer of proas and outrigger canoes in New Zealand. Nice blog, very nice boats.
Pacific Climate Voyage | 2012 expedition to seven Pacific Islands threatened by rising sea levels and climate change, aboard the 71' Gaia's Dream, world's largest sailing proa.
Proa Web Sites | Great list of sites about bilaterally asymmetrical sailboats.
Sailing for Sustainability | Sailing for Sustainability includes a comprehesive review of the available literature on the Fijian drua (including a compendium of sources) by Peter Nuttall.
Star Rigging | Development of the Micronesian crab claw rig for single handing.
Tacking Outrigger | The website of Peter Evans and his designs. Includes a comprehensive photo list of tacking outriggers.
Tom Speer’s Shunting Foil Sections | Tom Speer is a Boeing aerodynamicist who used computer voodoo to create a foil section with fore and aft symmetry, suitable for a shunting proa. On the water reports show that the new foils perform as expected, that is... as well as traditional "teardrop" foils. An important step forward in proa development.