Fast proa sailing

My 5 metre junk rig proa sailing on a reach in 15 knots of wind. Boat speed in this video is mostly between 8 and 9 knots but jumps breifly to the day's top speed of 10.3 knots, towards the end of the video.
Sailing on the Waitemata Harbour, New Zealand.
For more information on my designs, visit my website:
www.brettmarinedesign.com

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Science & Technology

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• proa
• sailing
• speed
• fast
• multihull
• catamaran
• outrigger
• canoe
• wind
• junk
• rig

[Proadude]

Hi,

Sorry Im not sure what happened to your last comment, it was there, but now its gone. Yes my rudders are ogive, the forward one is locked in a straight line to act as a daggerboard when sailing upwind.

I am not a member of the proafile group yet, but I will sign up to it later today.

[KSONeill]

Hi

Well my previous comment seems to have gone to the ether. Yes, that's my boat. So your rudders are ogive? Interesting. Have you looked at Tom Speer's sections?

Do you mind coming over to the yahoo group proa_file to chat about this?

best

Kevin

[Proadude]

Hi,

Thanks for the comment.

I will try to get a decent video of the boat shunting as soon as I can. Shunting with a junk rig and ogive rudders is fairly quick and easy. Do you have the green schooner rigged proa?

Thanks, James.

[KSONeill]

Very nice!

Interesting rudder design. I'd like to see a video of the boat shunting shot from a few yards to windward.  I'm planning to make such a video myself as soon as it's warmer around here.

Kevin