Update: We went sailing! We've been doing some repairs, and the boat is still at my house an hour from the water at least in part because there's...
Hi Not too many pictures yet, but here you go: Discovery 20 https://imgur.com/a/vc0jekz That's the pictures from the ad, and a couple of our...
Thanks, Richard. I missed your reply. We bought the boat, so I guess I'll see how well trailer sailing it works out. It's a nice boat, very...
Hi, thanks for the reply. How long does it take you, from pulling up to sailing off, do you think? I've never even been around a boat that folded...
I've emailed him, but I'd like to hear from owners in the wild too.
Thanks for the reply; I'm aware of the 21. I'm trying to avoid building something here :) There's a 20 for sale in my price range, but the boat...
I'm thinking about a Discovery 20, but I can't find much online about setup/tear down times. Richard Woods says his similar swing-up system on the...
Look for lines and used hardware on ebay. I've bought rope from Milwaukee Rigging: http://stores.ebay.com/Milwaukee-Rigging and from Discount...
There's a web site with a bunch of information about these boats in French. The site dates to about 2000, but the data is still interesting....
There have been more Atlantic proas built and sailing than you would think. I collected some images of some Newick and French proas and put them...
It also lets you control where the CE is right after the shunt, which gives you better control at low speeds and lets you get by with smaller...
Rob's freestanding masts and Newick's Atlantic proas with freestanding masts can't really be caught hard aback like a stayed Pacific proa can. I...
Just tack or jibe. How bad could it be? Sailing in light air and you have to come about, if it's still light you shunt, if it's picking up and...
Thank you! I'm sold on the schooner rig. I'd use it on any size boat. Des Jours Meilleurs is a much bigger boat with a similar rig, that's a...
I guess we have to define things more carefully so we're all using the same terms. "Outrigger" to me means a boat that's paddled, an OC-N for...
This niggled at the back of my mind this morning, until I went back and searched up this message:...
No. Pac proas are more prone to capsize when aback, not less. K O'N
Ah, sorry, I didn't realize that was an old message. I edited it without looking. You may be right about Atlantic proas. Take a look at the...
In case of capsize, it's much to your advantage to have the rig in the lee hull. The boat only goes to 90 degrees, much easier to recover....
I think your proposed 90/10 weight distribution would be hard to accomplish. The heavy hull, if it is to be to lee, has to be at least moderately...
