Sailing on proa is a great fun but also an opportunity to feel and uderstand the forces of wind and water. As on windsurfing you are very close to them. But the difference is that you start on stable vessel which gives safety and comfort. Proa is an self – steering boat, means that you can trim her on wind. There is no acctual steer, just steering paddle, that we try not to use much.
During years of our expirience we evolved our way of sailing on proa. Which is similar to the original techniques but has our local differences. We try not to use, or use as rare as possible steering paddle. Work a lot with mass blance, sail, mast shifting. In our traninig we use scale models and full size boats. Scale models helps us to explain how shunting works, how proa behave on different courses to the wind, all this on safe shallow water, step by step.
Our individual trainings:
Basic about 2-3 hours:
- starts on land where you get familiar with boat parts, ropes etc
- using scale model to show how operate the boat but on safety shallow water
- practicing base knowledge on water: shunting, working with mass shifting, basics about trimming on differnt wind cources.
- safety procedures
PRICE: about 140 PLN/hour. Please contact us for order a training and set a date and place.
Advanced about 4 hours:
- practical course on water with advanced techniques of sailing on loger distances
- detailed trimming and rigging the boat
- sailing in stronger wind conditions (if possible due to weather forecast)
- more about singlehanded sailing
- safety procedures
PRICE: about 160 PLN/hour. Please contact us for order training and set a date and place.
Our courses and trainings are now locally in Poland on Zalew Zegrzyński and form time to time on Puck bay during season from begining of may till end of september.
Please contact us for individual training via e- mail pjoa@pjoa.pl or our contact form.