My Proa requirements
1) Single hand
2) Fast
3) Gentleman racing
4) Live two
5) Sleep other couple and children (2 children and grand children)
6) Trailerable
For your consideration and/or entertainment, I offer the following Z40½ Roadster. Current, it shows it as an Atlantic. However, I'm still debating the Pros and Cons.
Specifications
- Schooner Proa
- 40' (12.2 m) Windward Passenger Hull
- 60' (18.3 m) Leeward Performance Hull
- 5000 lb (2270 kg) Race weight
- 10,000 lb (4535 kg) Max weight
- 80:20 Race weight ratio
- 70:25 Cruise weight ratio
- 1 King bed on bridge deck w/ panoramic views
- 1 Queen bed in hull
- 2 bunks (1 double, 1 single) in hull
- Salon for 6
- 2 Heads
- 2 Showers (doesn't wet down head)
- Work shop / office
- Lee hull expected to contain kayaks and bikes.
- Three levels - Hull, Bridge Deck & "Crows Nest"
- Two helms - inside, and in Crow's Nest
- Bridge Deck can be sailed closed as depicted or open (It is a roadster!)
- Not shown - 10 foot dingy and tramps.
- On a perfect day... Mitchlet predicts 27 knots at eminent hull flying in race trim.
- And the insanity... It will fit within the USA interstate towing regulations of 40'x8.5'x13.5' and can be towed by mid size SUV's or full size 1/4 ton pick-up trucks. It is a true roadster