Category: Building Blog

Just a short walk around proasis under construction 😉

The hulls got a multi purpose attachment hole on each end. The holes will be used for bow lines, anchor and stays. They are made from 1.5 inch PVC pipe wrapped in glass fiber cloth. Carbon fiber tow (black) is used to spread the loads on a wider area.

Proasis won’t have a solid bridgedeck between her hulls. Instead, a trampoline net will be lashed in between. For a tight and durable lashing we have designed connection rails from glass fiber. As part of the many small detail jobs on the road to the final paintjob the lashing rails have been tested on a model and eventually installed on both hulls and beams.

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.

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

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 🙂

Windward and Leeward hull of proasis have been joined by the crossbeams for the very first time! The individual parts eventually formed a huge canoe, right out of our dreams. Great motivation for everybody to se things coming together.

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!

With a little delay, here is a time-lapse video of the building progress. The video contain 32,562 pictures, taken every 30 seconds. We documented almost every building steps, but some days are missing, because Henrik didn’t managed to turn the camera on or I forgot to charge it :-/ – so don’t wonder if there are some gaps. 😉 Enjoy watching.