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10/29/05 |
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Sam Frosh's practical sailing experience leads him to believe that the tacking proa is not a realistic or sensible design when used in higher winds.
In September I had my contribution appear in
Proafile regarding the design and construction of my tacking proa or more correctly, outrigger sailing craft. Since that article I have sailed my boat in the strongest wind conditions that I had taken it out thus far, around 18 to 20 knots. Apart from an impending structural failure in that the 50 mm aluminium tubes could not stand the rig load from the side stays and bent permanently beyond their pre-bent shape, it was very instructive at a design level for this type of craft.
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