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…
In this article, I’m analyzing a few selected contours of a Crab Claws sail to determine what maximum surface area can be achieved for them, under the conditions that I consider necessary.A proas of up to 7 meters length, usually…
Finishing jobs are coming :). Piotr is now putting last layers of laquer. Next thing is to attach steers steel fittings and eyebolts for trampolin nets. In previous steps false keels with epoxy putty were attached to keels to secure…
In this post, we want to show more photos of building process for our proa Folk.We can share some photos made by Kasia – our client. Kasia started building just after 2021 Cristmas.She bought our PJOA FOLK kit and started…
Its end of march and we are closing to finish hulls and take them out to complete rigging and boat 🙂 to be ready for incoming season. What happened it Piotr’s workshop in last few months?Mostly, finishing hulls interior, covering…
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…
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…