Hello proafans
For quite a while I was reading proafile as a guest. I have learned a lot and maybe I can also make a contribution.
The first proa I built about 15 years ago (see my avatar) and she looked beautiful to my eyes, but was not very successful. I had to learn more about hullshapes. Then I went to Thailand for well a year and built a ferrocement yacht with junksails. I loved that boat, heavy, roomy and slow,  very safe and easy to handle. But I never forgot the proas. At home in Switzerland I made sketches, plans and models, mainly in the stressform system I read about in “The Gougeon Brothers on Boat Construction”, a book I really can recommend. Two years ago I sold my ferrocement yacht to make room for a proa. My dream was a cruising proa of 12 meters, but I did not dare to build it without experience in the stressform system. So I built one half size, 6 meters, for the lake of Zurich. That worked quite well. Unfortunately I had a motorcycle accident after I was only one time on the water and it took me one year to recover. I don’t get younger, so it was time to go to Thailand again and build a dreamboat. We started one month ago, the ama is finished and we work on mainhull now. I will post pictures as the building process goes on.
It is nice to be here
Alex

Hello Alexander, welcome to the forum.
Building on your third proa and still humble - I like that!
I bet you can contribute, and I´m looking forward to see more photos as you progress.

You mentioning the Gougeon Brothers book (a great book indeed) gave me the idea, that this forum maybe could make a “bookshelf”. That would be a list of titles relevant to proas/boatdesign/theory with comments on what to expect or not (?).

Good luck with your project…
Steen

Hi. Welcome.
Yes please - more photo’s!

Hi Steen
That’s a good idea to make a bookshelf. To find books saying something about proas is not easy and costs some money. You have to buy a lot of books to get a certain amount of information. In many books proas are just a small chapter.

Hi Alex
I will post more photos in the designs forum. I think that is the right place.

Cheers
Alexander