Subject: Re: [harryproa] Re:: Cruiser 60 questions
From: Mike Crawford
Date: 6/10/2015, 4:37 PM
To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au


  Thanks! 

  It's nice to see a moving demo, as well as learn how they upgraded the system.

  Helpful Youtube tip:  If you pause the video where the good part starts, then right-click on it, there's an option that says "Get video URL at current time".  That's a link you can send out that will start playing where it was paused.

    https://youtu.be/4pJ1j5GW78c?t=71

  A door attached to the hull makes more sense than fastening a fairing to the bottom of the motor.

  It's not surprising that the boat has not sold well.  I love the Preso as long as I'm not looking at it or sitting inside it.  The trailerable shallow-draft kick-up centerboard boat with schooner rig on auto-pilot is great.  Good sail area, low center of effort, very little work required to sail it.

  However, with those twin low-aspect wishbone rigs on such a short hull, it just looks homely once the sails are up.  Maybe if both rigs got a bit narrower and taller, and the forward mast were lengthened by about three feet to give it more of a cat-ketch look...

  Plus, for $130k, a lot of people are going to want standing headroom and two separate cabins. 

  For that price you could build pretty nice 14 meter KSS-style proa with full standing head room, twin doubles or queens, a head, a galley, acres of trampoline space, and a /lot/ more speed.

        - Mike



robriley@rocketmail.com [harryproa] wrote on 6/9/2015 2:08 AM:

heres another view of an outboard engine well with lowering a 10HP on a Presto 30
although you have to put up with this guys review to find it

SAIL Boat Review: Presto 30
    
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SAIL Boat Review: Presto 30
SAIL magazine reviews the Presto 30
    
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it has quite a neat 400sqft sprit-schooner rig too. The boat at first looks a lot like Herreshoff's Meadowlark in profile but the hull and performance are anything but similar. The builders went broke already
http://www.climbacadia.com/wp-content/uploads/Presto_100_1321_cropadjust1.jpg
    
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http://www.climbacadia.com/wp-content/uploads/Prest...
    
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