Had time to put the spars (at least parts of them) and the sail on the proa for the first time. Even performed some test shunts. Works all very smooth, time for the finish now!
Playing with the Rig
Category: Building Blog
Trampolin Finished
We were lucky and got some nice mesh for the trampolin to cover the space between the hulls and beams from a friend. Quite difficult to sew, but eventually the sewing mashine got tired and did it.
Proa Assembled
We’ve finally managed to assemble proasis at the beach to take some measurments for the trampolin, the rig and the rudders.
Feels great to see her like that!
Rudders under Progress
The rudder systems of proas are always debated. For many proa projects the rudders, cruicial for safety, were the weak spot of otherwise neat designs. The challenge is to design a system that works in both directions of travel due to the nature of the proa: Shunting.
We hope to have found a robust and cheap way that allows us to keep proasis on course comfortably and safe. Our proa will get recycled F18 daggerboards as rudder foils, mounted in kick-up cassettes on each beam (more about the cassettes in later posts).
CampusTV Interview
Yellow!
The color of sunshine, hope, and happiness. On one hand yellow stands for freshness, happiness, positivity, clarity, energy, optimism, enlightenment, remembrance, intellect, honor, loyalty, and joy. On the other hand its an alarming color, capable of transporting our message of climate emergency.
Paint arrived!
As announced in the previous post we were waiting for our paint to arrive – well, now its there!
Are you curious which color proasis eventually will get? Take a guess, the secret will be lifted in the next post!
Rudder and Rig
While waiting for our paint, we’re still busy with lots of details:
On Nightwatch
Northern hemisphere winter is back with cold, wet and rainy weather, leaving only a few hours of daylight. Time for one or another night shift!
Happy Halloween!
Hatch hatch hatch!
Time to build some hatches and hatch-covers 🙂
