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EST (CLC Admin) (CLC Admin)Final Thoughts On Madness the Proa by
John C. Harris on 2013-12-06 14:07:33  Many observed that my
31-foot Pacific proa project was ambitious, experimental, and a
bit daft.  "Yes" to the first, "no" to the second, and "maybe"
to the third.    The project was ambitious in scale, at least by
comparison to CLC's usual small boat fare, and bringing it in
for a landing on a reasonable budget of time and money was an
interesting challenge. It's one reason I'm glad I did it, as it
demonstrated the CLC team's ability to execute complex technical
exercises.  Madness definitely wasn't "experimental" in terms of
design.  As I was at pains to note at various stages, the design
was strenuously conservative.  Having made the mistake of
experimenting with too many things in a single design in the
past, I stuck with prove