Welcome to the Proasail Blog where you will find details of my experiments with small Proa sailing craft.

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this is the TP02 proa with centre wishbone boom mainsail and two counter rotating  rudders. It worked OK but due to the low freeboard I was unhappy with drag the rudder cassettes created.

Steering arrangement of TP02 

Construction details - hull is light and other than issues over the rudder attachments very strong 

Basic arrangement, a very simple construction foe ease of build and cost - it is a development project not a work or art - 'development boats should be disposable'

TP03 - the next design

This is the proposal for TP03. A simple lug rig with a single dagger board, steering is achieved by a combination of sail trim and daggerboard position. The intention is to have a simple, easy to rig robust touring proa rather than aim for all out speed. So far I have done a bit of hacking about as detailed below

holes cut in the deck to take two new mast sockets and old fittings removed

new bulkheads have been bonded in and reinforcements to take the mast foot added 

reinforcements for the leeboard strop and controls added

Strop testing

Strop fixing details

how the board will work

Lee board control - a work in progress