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Entries | NewsThe Last Navigator Finds His Way Home
Mau Piailug, Micronesian who sailed by navigating sun and stars, dies at 78 Mau Piailug : Last of the Pacific Navigators Finds his Way Home
Special thanks to C. O’Hanlon for this submission.
Poetry in Motion - C Class CatamaransThe “Little America’s Cup” catamarans are like thoroughbreds - expensive and delicate creatures good for little else besides racing others of their kind. But oh… what a ride! Here’s UK Team Invictus putting the boat through its paces a few days before shipping the yacht to Newport, Rhode Island. Racing begins Aug 22, with coverage by Sailing Anarchy.
New Seaclipper 20Jim Brown rocks the boat, again.
Multihulls make great camp cruisers… in theory. In practice, they are expensive and complex, cumbersome to launch and trailer, and just plain awkward in a monohull oriented environment. Until now. Jim Brown and his long time collaborator, Ron Marples, have at last created the VW microbus of multihulls - the new Seaclipper 20. The boat is simple to build, robust, a snap to rig and launch, safe, comfy and yes… even fast! A standard used beach cat rig keeps the cost down and the performance up, and finally, a standard 7’ square dome tent converts the boat into a luxurious camp site! I am SO happy to see a new trimaran design that isn’t all carbon fiber and made in China. Plans available at Searunner.com. Via SmallTrimarans.
Aye, Calypso!
The 100th anniversary of Commandant Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s birth is today. Today is also day 52 of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Thanks to the Horse’s Mouth for the pic.
Calypso, by John Denver Traditional Vaka Heading EastPosted: 04/13/10 |
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A fleet of four traditional vaka will sail from Auckland on Wednesday April 14th (weather permitting) to French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga and Fiji.
Sails Set For Pacific Endeavour
Bernard Smith, 1910-2010Posted: 02/18/10 |
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The passing of sailing’s true rocket scientist | Mr. Smith’s Amazing Sailboats End GameNinja Pro - Sailing Outrigger
This sporty little multihull hails from Cape Town, the home of designer Gerhard Schein and G-Force dinghies. It’s called a “tacking proa”, though we purists would say ”outrigger”. It has all the mod-cons like a square top main and a carbon fiber bow sprit for the screacher, and it looks like a great ride. Though the actual boat doesn’t have it, the 3D model on the G-Force site shows a Bruce foil in the ama.
Edmond Bruce was a brilliant sailing theorist and experimenter who was perhaps the brightest star of the Amateur Yacht Research Society (AYRS) in it’s 60’s and 70’s heyday. He had a gift for experiments - building wind tunnels out of bailing wire and desk fans, and tank testing his ideas for a miniscule fraction of the cost of a typical university. He published his results in the famous AYRS newsletter, a peculiarly British institution that printed all manner of demented English sailing fantasies as well as serious research into sailing, and since absolutely no one else was interested in the topic, they had the field mostly to themselves. Bruce first posited the idea of using angled hydrofoils for balancing heeling force back in 1965, and it is an idea that is ever so slowly catching on. Now ocean racing trimarans sport angled boards in the amas, and so do the latest A Cats. I’m sure Edmond Bruce would be very pleased. A Bruce foiled outrigger is unique because the foil pushes up on one tack, and pulls down on the other. The Year in Proas The New Zealand Proa Congress
2009 was a good year for the proa “virus”. We witnessed two proa “messabouts”, and the launch of a truly spectacular “giant”. The 2009 Texas Proa Championships featured four proas in attendance, and a race between Kevin O’Neill’s 21’ Skate and Laurent Coquilleau’s 21’ proa. The First New Zealand Proa Congress had a turnout of eight outrigged craft, including several canoes of Gary Dierking’s design. James Brett’s Free Radical took home the trophy. Both events are planned to repeat in 2010. Inigo Wijnen launched the 71’ Gaia’s Dream in Oz, and capped 2009 with the maiden voyage from Coffs Harbour to Sydney. Schacht Marine Now OpenPosted: 11/20/09 |
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So long, and thanks for all the fish!
I’m very pleased to announce that Schacht Marine, my professional marine industrial design site is now up and running! It includes a blog (of course) and that will be where the majority of my posts will appear from now on. Schacht Marine will range much further afield than Proafile, gathering inspiration from all sectors of the design world. That is also where I’ll be presenting new proposals - and there will most likely be a proa or two in there. I’ll also be looking at modern yacht design while wearing a cultural analysis hat, which I think could be a lot of fun. See The Battle Axe for an example. Please come visit and say “Hi” at the new digs! Proafile will remain as an archive and resource for proanauts, and proa specific content will still be added. Thanks to everyone who contributed to Proafile over the years, it has been an honor and a privilege to get to know you. All the best, Michael Schacht Page 1 of 5 pages 1 2 3 > Last » |
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