G'day,
Mark and Michele have left harryproa. A more or less amicable split, neither of us
liked the way the others were doing things, so decided it was time to
move on. Mark is now designing and selling catamarans for Pacific
Multihulls, I remain designing and selling harryproas. I wish them both well. Michele is
removing their contact details from the web page and closing the bank
account, but all enquiries from now on should be sent to me at
harryproa@gmail.
The good news is that I am now free to pursue my main aim, which is to
get harryproas sailing and work on further simplifying the build
technique, where there is a lot happening. Anybody with incomplete
plan sets should let me know and i will get the missing pages to you as
soon as possible. I have almost completed the amateur built mast
plans including a novel join so they can be reliably built in two pieces and the new beam mounted rudder plans are available for
Elementarry. They will be available for the rest of the designs as
soon as testing them on Blind Date is complete, hopefully early this
northern summer.
The bad news is that Michele is not updating the web page any more and there is 8 months of progress to report. I am a bit busy
getting everything sorted out, including an excting, very light and
cheap to build 18m 4 cabin harry and a live aboard 20m version (which
makes 6 harrys over 18m/60' currently under construction) so if anyone is interested
in helping out with the web page, please let me know.
The other bad news is that with so much going on, I have not had time
(or money, bust ups are expensive in both) to get Solitarry completed. The hulls and decks are sitting
on the Gold Coast after the brand new, very expensive, slightly overloaded ;-) trailer fell
apart on the way up from Coffs to Brisbane. Consequently, no Solo
Transpac this year, but there is another one in 2010, so that is the
new target, with launching as soon as possible. More on this as it
happens.
As Dan mentioned, there is an article by Mark Giles in the latest Multihull World
magazine on the launch and first sails of Blind Date. Gilesey was suitably
impressed. A smoother ride than a cat, his seasick prone wife now wants
one, very fast, serious contender in the cruising market, cheaper than a 10m
cat, all the benefits from the web page, etc. There is also an
article on Mark's first cat design and some interesting articles. Cost
for overseas is $Aus20 including air postage from info@multihull.
regards,
Rob
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