We like to show you few pictures from building and firts sailing of proa “Motu” build by Cooper Parish from Mojave in California. Cooper wrote to us in 2020 in the middle of pandemic time, he was very interested in…
We like to show you few pictures from building and firts sailing of proa “Motu” build by Cooper Parish from Mojave in California. Cooper wrote to us in 2020 in the middle of pandemic time, he was very interested in…
Cat 600 is getting good shape :). We have a plan to close both hulls in the end of the year, and staring form new year connect it with cross beams, so now it is very intense time. All interior…
Summer is gone, season is end here and PJOA Cat 600 moves forward :). After a longer preparations with laminating plywood sides and glueing slats to sides main hull construction can be put together. These are photos from last few…
Some of last sailing moments in this season, Janusz steering, with subtitles what’s hapening on board 🙂
Days going and going and PJOA Cat 600 grows 🙂 At this momet after some problems with plywood quality, Piotr our master shipbuilder took CNC cutted plywood lements and now he is making hull sides. In few next days first…
I created a program to help me understand the traditional sails of the canoes of Pacific Islands. These sails seem very effective, yet very simple. So I wanted to understand these sails better. My program currently renders only triangular sails…
Hi! First look on building process. Work started from glueing slats for main beams and frames assembling, we used 1:1 paper stencils to speed up the process. In next step most of plywood elements will be cut. Then hull assembly…
The meeting took well above two hours, so few snapshots takes some time. Polish speaking.
It was 2019 when I had a pleasure to raid along golden beaches of souther Baltic Sea, together with a very experienced proa sailor and builder of his own Lili’uokalani- Reto Brehm. Reto has wrote the shanty and illustrated with…