Miss Cindy For Sale
Miss Cindy, the famous micro-cat cruiser is for sale on Salt Spring Island, B.C. for $3500 US, with her 2 hp Yamaha 2-cycle outboard and a custom trailer.
Designed and built by Tony Bigras in 2008, the 16’ pocket yacht carried Tony on an epic 6000 mile cruise down the Pacific coast of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Read the captain’s log here: Travels with Miss Cindy.
Miss Cindy features a very cool rig: a biplane lug.…
Proa Takes Land Speed Record
A proa takes the record!
Team New Zealand have smashed the wind-powered land speed record.
Glenn Ashby piloted the radical land yacht Horonuku to 222.4kph (138mph) in just 22 knots of wind on Lake Gairdner in South Australia on Sunday evening.
Conditions finally aligned to better the long-standing record of 202.9km/h recorded by Britain’s Richard Jenkins on March 29, 2009.
1955 Woody Brown Catamaran Back Home in Hawaii
Ned McMahon has provided an update on the extremely rare 20’ Woody Brown beach cat that was auctioned off in Wisconsin in 2014:
The little cat was built in Honolulu in 1955 and then shipped to Green Bay Wisconsin where she stayed until 2018. The former owner had passed away and she was donated and then auctioned off.
I bought her sight unseen but knew what she was and drove up to pick her up. All the parts were there and she was in…
Keeping the Proa in Epic
Ryan Finn has successfully completed his epic voyage from NYC to San Francisco, around Cape Horn, single-handed, in a 36’ plywood/epoxy proa. 93 days after departing New York, he sails into Frisco, under the Golden Gate, flying the ama by Alcatraz, and finally docking at the Richmond Yacht Club.
We proa fans can’t help but feel a bit proud. Well done Ryan.
Jzerro was designed and built by Russell Brown, right here in Port Townsend.
Chris Maas Foiler Nominated in Foiling Week Awards
Retired boatbuilder Chris Maas lives in the San Juans on an island with no ferry service, so he built this fantastic electric foiling catamaran from recycled parts to be his commuter.
His GIZMO has been nominated in the Motorboat and Sustainable categories at Foiling Week. It’s marvelous to see Chris up against the over-hyped and overpriced foiling toys, best of luck to him.
2 Oceans 1 Rock, Around Again
UPDATE 3/17/22: Ryan Finn has rounded Cape Horn yesterday, 3/16/22 in the early AM hours, according to his FB post and the tracker. Congratulations Ryan! A great accomplishment for the sailor and also for his proa, JZERRO, originally designed and built by Russell Brown. Cheers!
1/20/22: Ryan Finn has started his second try at breaking the New York to San Francisco sailing record (solo no less) in the JZERRO. The proa departed NYC on…
The Polar Pod
This is the Polar Pod - a research platform which is intended to circumnavigate Antarctica by drifting along with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
The craft is technically a multihull sailboat; it has four hulls - one of which is above the waterline. It’s fitted with ten vane-like sails; these will help the craft avoid encounters with icebergs and the like.
The Polar Pod was originally proposed by the French explorer Jean-Louis…
The B&B Mini Trimaran Racer
B&B Yacht Designs is continuing their development of a very neat little adventure trimaran. It has pretty much everything you’d want in a pocket tri, nothing you don’t, and all in excellent proportion.
“Features include a roller furling mainsail and headsail for easy reefing and a boom for superior sail control. The amas retract into the center crossbeams to reduce the overall beam for trailering without having to demount the amas. A…
Proafile Update in Progress
Ahoy! Proafile has just undergone a big update (EE v.2 to v.6) and is now getting back into shape. Some images are missing but should appear again shortly. If you find any functionality not working, please let me know via the Contact Form, thanks.
I’m uploading an old racing proa concept from 2016 as a test entry, I don’t think I’ve published it before.
Polish Proa Rally
No less then ten shunting proas attended this summer’s Proa Rally in Poland. Like a gathering of Ents, such a large number of proas flocking together outside the Pacific is a rare event indeed. Hats off to Janusz Ostrowski and other Poland Proanauts for making it happen.
More info and photos here on FB.
