Subject: Re: [harryproa] Re:: Web page update
From: "Mike Crawford mcrawf@nuomo.com [harryproa]" <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au>
Date: 4/9/2016, 2:37 PM
To: "harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au" <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au>
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  How to do an emergency stop?

  Just dump the sheet and bear upwind, at which point you can shunt, sail backwards to gain  a few yards to windward, then shunt again, and sail above the boat you were going to hit.  

  Remember, dumping the sheet on a proa allows you to go completely to neutral -- no worries about being pushed forward when the shrouds stop the main from being let all the way out.  Then you decide what to do: drift downwind, shunt and sail backwards, whatever.  

  There's also no risk of being caught in irons halfway through that emergency tack and not being able to make it through the wind.

  Imagine how cool that would be when a powerboater who can't read charts pinches you off between an island and a shoal.  Or perhaps a ferry captain who can read a chart but feels like being obnoxious that day (I watched a fellow being pushed into an island one day with his main pinned on the shrouds; fortunately the captain gave him an out at the last minute).  

  With a traditional multihull you might not have the time or the boatspeed to tack, or the distance to gybe and head back upwind.  With the proa you can stop, back out, and get on with your day.

        - Mike



On Apr 9, 2016, at 11:09 AM, adriankevans@yahoo.co.uk [harryproa] <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au> wrote:

 

Really appreciating the website updates and news - thankyou!

I would be very interested to see what an Elementarry would look like in the light of recent developments and thinking - particularly the camper version. Would it be along the lines of a mini Expeditionarry?

The intelligent infusion is a very exciting methodology. However as an inexperienced but enthusiastic home builder, it seems very high risk - a lot of investment in materials and consumables and time to do the set up, which renders it very vulnerable to errors - what if... there's not enough resin in the pot? the vac tubes or resin feed tubes aren't spaced correctly? temperature too low?

Am I being over cautious here? It feels like a big learning curve for a homebuild!

And one question in terms of proa sailing - is there a way to do an 'emergency stop'? The sort of situation I'm thinking is threading a way through moorings, aiming upwind of a moored boat, and being caught out by a windshift (or bad judgement) when it its too late to bear away around the stern of the moored boat. What would you do instead of popping another tack in?

Many thanks

Adrian

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