Hello all, I'm happy to tell you that my last try of the "Godyoto" (single automatic oared sculling system) worked as well as possible ! :-D You can see the...
On two occasions sailing my Dory-hulled catamaran in 15-20 knts. winds, it accelerated just like my Flying Dutchman did when going on the plane. Very exciting...
Ian Your dory hull must've had a pretty wide flat bottom, and hard chines. Why did it take in so much water-spray, like, was it blowing back aboard the lee...
Guy Capra schrieb: ... Thank you, Guy! I am more in need of translating the video format, all I get is a black box even though I have the Flash player...
... Normally the same as YouTube Theo :-/ Try it directly may be it will be good : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x570wl_20080424-1er-essai-godyoto_tech And...
... Here are "my 2 cents": 1) The video is much too long (19 minutes 39 seconds...). I suggest to use the format used commonly by musical videos: 3 minutes....
Le 28/04/2008 10:09, roche182@... inscrivait : [..] ... Thank you for the course Emmanuel, but I suppose some people would just like to see a maximum...
Now that you have tried both types of sculling, which is better? On your blog I see that with the Godyoto v1 the leading edge stays the same, somewhat like...
... The last one, said "v2". ... Yes, it was a bad try, this one. ... Yes, and the japanese ro and more the "godille bretonne" (breton scull). ... Yes, but the...
... Thank you Guy! The version on dailymotion works fine. I am intrigued by your Yuloh version, thank you for taking the time to video it! The bow of the boat...
... [..] ... You're welcome Theo ! :-) ... Yes, this no occures (well, occures less in fact) when the centre-board is down. ... If you talk about the fin =...
... Ha! Only 600 million native speakers, but hundreds of millions more (billions??) speaking it as a second/third language. I apologize for our "language...
Guy Capra schrieb: ... I was actually thinking of a fin *in addition to the centerboard*. It's a question of levers. If we assume that we have no hull or a...
... La godille on a sail boat or on a light dinghy does exactly the same thing. I have seen Eric Tabarly on a light boat (in a film on Thalassa) and he...
Le 29/04/2008 20:43, Dave Culp inscrivait : [..] ... Let say : soon you will become frogs, take care ! ;-) ... Wow ! Many thanks to you Dave, for these kind...
The Wells turbine has symmetrical aerofoils which are fixed in the plane of rotation. Provided the rotor already has some forward motion flow can go either...
... [..] Ok, thank you Robert. The near same principle but in the air is the Darrieus Wind Turbine : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrieus_wind_turbine ... You...
Hi Doug Answering your questions: My Dory-catamaran has a bottom width of 500mm and its shape is shown in the photo album titled Multihull Hull-shapes. I have...
Hello, Everybody! This message to warn you that I just learned that a new (french) Pacific Proa has been launched in France (Vannes). This is so new that I...
Searching for more information, I found the following text from the (french) man who warned me: Hello A friend Bruce Sibillotte has built a new proa "un air de...
See http://www.thedailysail.com/ism/articles.nsf/Features/0EEE00439941B4AE80 257442002D2254?OpenDocument&Login NB This link may not work for you, in which case...
Sorry yahoo has mangled the URL again. Try: <http://www.thedailysail.com/ism/articles.nsf/Features/0EEE00439941B4AE8 0257442002D2254?OpenDocument&Login>...
After a few minutes, I managed to read the following, but the rest need to be logged to read it. However, I got the idea, and I don't think that it is a good...
So, there is another Yahoo Groups dealing with proas. According to the directory of Yahoo, it has 818 members... I was so chocked by such a large number that I...
Hi Emmanuel, I think that many of us interested in both kinds of sailing belong to both groups. I've been a member of the proa_file group for many years--well,...
