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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: February 2015
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Monday, February 16, 2015. The plans call for four hat-shaped brackets on the back of the main bulkheads to carry the akas. These are simple e-glass structures. Further structural steps on the akas will keep them from laying flat, so these need to be moulded now. Task time: 8 hours. Total project time: 490 hours. Saturday, February 14, 2015. I ended up laying battens on the sides to dam up fairing compound. I then san...
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: Dry Fitting first Ama Hull Panels
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Thursday, June 18, 2015. Dry Fitting first Ama Hull Panels. I got the bulkheads firmly attached and then moved on to the main ama panels. These were wired together at both bows and then dropped as a envelope over the bulkheads. Some of the bulkhead tabs required sanding to fit into the slots. The glass and epoxy had widened them. Future builders may want to skip glassing the tabs as much of it is sanded away.
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: Attaching Ama Panels
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Sunday, June 28, 2015. The last week has been a lot of gluing, filleting and sanding on the main ama planks. After wiring things into place, I did an initial glue up. Using a small syringe, I put a bead of thickened adhesive epoxy along the bulkhead plank intersections. A small syringe allows you to force a bit of epoxy between the two surfaces. Stem wired for glueing. Initial glue joint between bulkhead and plank. Dry Fi...
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: May 2015
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Leading up to mounting the ama stringers on the hull panels, there were several tasks. Scarfing the fir stringers. Two scarfs per side. 25 feet each. Rounding over the bottom edge to fit the CNCed bulkheads. Task time: 28 hours. Total project time: 625 hours. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Ama Ballast Tank Considerations. Gougeon has published some Guidelines for Wood/Epoxy Composite Tanks. In the last cou...
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: October 2014
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Finishing Up Stay Bulkheads. I needed to seal the exposed "endgrain" of all the laminated layers. I decided to try using a slit section of carbon sleeve. The knit sleeves tend to wrap nicely around corners. Here is a shot of the wet-out carbon which took the shape pretty well. I then layed the final covering layer of cloth over the edge of the sleeve. Task time: 5 hours. There will be one ligh...
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Proa File | Richard Newick’s first try
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Richard Newick’s first try. GALLERY Click images to enlarge. This is TRINE, the first trimaran design of Richard C. Newick. Still going strong as a day charter boat in St. Croix, USVI, over four decades later. Not bad at all for plywood, and a damn good first try. Thanks to Bob W. at Boat Bits. If you have some shots of interesting historical multihulls, send them in! We’d love to post them. Keep me in this conversation via email. 23 May - 14:00. Here is a early picture under sail. Poland Proa Raid 2014.
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Proa File | Multihull Boats
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Project Cheers: 2016 Edition. We’re pleased to announce that ‘Project Cheers’ - the story of the 1968 OSTAR racing proa - is again in print. A book in three parts, the story of CHEERS is narrated by the three principle players: Tom Follet the skipper, Dick Newick the designer, and Jim Morris, the race syndicate organizer and financier. A very good read, especially for budding R2AK syndicates. This new edition is a labor of love of of Russell and Ashlyn. Read on ». R2AK 2016 and Parallel Evolution. The ha...
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Proa File | R2AK Update - June 9
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R2AK Update - June 9. GALLERY Click images to enlarge. Piper and Norton of Team Hexagram 59 was doing very well on their veteran Hobie 20 until a rock found them and landed them on the beach waiting for epoxy to cure. As of writing, their spot tracker is still at 0 knots. Several teams have made pit stops for repairs or simply to escape the conditions for a few hours and get some rest, finding it virtually impossible to sleep aboard. Find daily updates at:. Keep me in this conversation via email. 09 May:...
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: Ama Flipped
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Saturday, August 8, 2015. A couple weeks ago I flipped the ama over and started work on the interior. The keel panels needed taping with two or three layers of fiberglass. Fillets were applied to the keel seam and the bulkhead intersections. Task time: 110 hours. Total project time: 770 hours. August 10, 2015 at 8:54 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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