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Uploaded by on Aug 6, 2007

Sailing the Harryproa Visionarry 'Rare Bird' down the Australian coast.

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  • The bows look like they would easily submerge in a big sea. The weight of the aero rig mast seems enormous- contrary to all the principles of light weight sailing in a proa. Why is it that a lot of cruising proas today have such clunky or over powered rigs? A crab claw latteen would be so much lighter and possibly lift the nose up a lot.

  • The bows are designed to be semi wave piercing so submerging isn't a problem, they have a lot of reserve buoyancy. Crab claws were obviously considered but rejected for many reasons. Sailing at windspeed not enough for you? This is a cruising boat.

  • windspeed? boatspeed?

  • The wind varied from about 10 knots in the start of the video to 15 knots at the end. Boat speed was about the same.

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  • It does not convince me. To much complicated and expensive technical stuff and no more performance than a traditional Proas.

  • crab claw lateen?

    yeah okay!

    the bows are supposed to slice THROUGH seas. no up and down, just straight on through, flat level and FAST

  • crab claw lateen?

    yeah okay!

  • I've been considering purchasing plans and building 1 and this video has pretty much sealed the deal.

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