Leeboard attachment finished

The leeboard is designed to prevent leeway and allow proasis to sail closer to the wind. It is carved from light wood and reinforced by glassfiber. As a proa sails to each direction, the leeboard got an experimental ogival airfoil shape.

It is attached to the leeward hull by wooden rails and fully retractable.

Ogival airfoil shape.
Leeboard rails under construction.

We’ve got a roof!

Finally, the cabin is closed and the windward hull is finished! Lots of small detail work left to do, working towards the paint job.

Gluing the cabin bulkheads into place.
Roof glued on.
Leeward cabin frames glued into place.
Leeward cabin panel (last big part of the entire project) glassed.
The finished cabin gets prepared for the final external glassing.
Fortunately, many came to help 🙂
Feels good to grind finish the last big job for the grinder!

The devil is in the detail

While we are working on our goal to eventually finish the cabin of the windward hull (see pic below), lots of small projects keep us busy. Fortunately, some folks joined the proasis team for help lately 🙂

Keel rail glued on the leeward hull bottom.
Gueing in the cabin floor.
Cabin floor finished.
Christian taking a nap . . .
Bow eyelets (PVC pipe with glass fiber wrapped around) as attachment for stays and anchor. Will be further reinforced with glass fiber tow running through it.
Leeboard cases.
Trampoline lashing rail. Made from glassed over cable pipes with a glass fiber rod inside.

Work on our proa is starting again!

As promised we want to launch proasis, our 9 m proa this summer. To finish her we will return to the workshop again for a couple of weeks in July.

If you like to take a look by yourself feel free to visit us in our workshop:

Its located 15 km from Kiel. The easiest way to get there is to catch a train to Flintbek (regular trains between Hamburg and Kiel stop there). If you take a car leave the A 215 at Blumenthal.

Don’t be shy, we are always happy about visitors. If you want to get involved in the construction use your chance and become a part of the proasis team now!

Boats launched in Majuro

After an intense but great time in the WAM workshop both prototype designs were launched round about 6 weeks after they were started. A detailed explanation covering the construction of the WAM Cat will follow soon on this site so stay tuned 😉

Now its time for sea trials in the beautiful Majuro lagoon. Wait for some videos!

WAM Cat design
WAM Cat design
WAM Cat and Proa maiden sail
WAM Cat on anchor in front of the WAM campus