Your wooden boat challenge design is NOTHING MORE THAN an inflated version of my squareharry/slamtacker I did YEARS AGO, switching the name to slam tacker after making the model sail much better than even you though possible with flat bottom hulls, beam hung symmetrical rudders, and a wing sail. All this experimenting when the most said oh no, flat bottom and symmetrical center chord hung rudders are no good. Is it good now.

http://www.youtube.com/user/tsstproaMKll#p/u/58/jgCSYi5pwS8

tODD

--- In harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au, "tsstproa" <bitme1234@...> wrote:
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> Hey Rob so all your harrys are just a copy of this guys boat right. Is that making any sense yet!
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proa_file/photos/album/790582764/pic/1093248907/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc
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> Todd
> tsstproa
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> --- In harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au, Rob Denney <harryproa@> wrote:
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> > Already been done. There are 60'ters in Norway and Australia and a 70'ter
> > in Portugal.
> >
> > Arguably, Gaia's Dream is a Pacific proa which has been converted to a
> > harry. Not sure whether the extra space or the extra righting moment were
> > the reasons, but if he had made his windward hull a bit bigger originally,
> > the deck house could be a lot smaller/lower.
> >
> > rob
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:17 AM, LucD <lucjdekeyser@> wrote:
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> > > **
> > >
> > >
> > > Inigo Wijnen's 71' proa, Gaia's Dream (GD), will start sea trials soon.
> > > What would it take to scale the Harry concept to that size?
> > >
> > > Luc
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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