One day...I will own land.

Thanks Dan, yes Max is great love his channel :)

Yes there are two kinds of people in this world , talkers and doers , some just talk and others actually do it . 👍

Great to know this was helpful :)

Thanks Kev, yes that's how its done traditionally, they also pour hot sand into the culms to avoid kinking the bends.

Thanks for the recommendation John. My fascination for the Proas came from watching a video series by Buckminster Fuller called "everything I know " The full series I don't think is on KZbin any more but I found a transcript of where he describes the water people and Proas. His insights are remarkable. I recommend starting at www.bfi.org/about-fuller/resources/everything-i-know/session-4 then scroll daown to Part 6 and read from there :)

@@aquasol2121 thanks so much for this! I’ll review! Yeah, saw Fuller speak in person in ‘79, while I was in archit. school. He was amazing. To this day a big fan of tensigrity & domes.

@@johnnydfred Amazing, If there is one person who I could choose to have met from the past, I think it would have been Bucky :)

Many thanks, in the next video I will show how to bend the bamboo. I use a heat gun and a simple jig to hold the shape and then fiberglass. I have just got to finish editing it, so hopefully this weekend I will post.

Yes I used just the one layer of bamboo with fiberglass on both sides. but it is very flexible. I have bulkheads at 30cm intervals that are filled with PU foam and that provides the additional support required. To build a larger craft it likely require more layers of bamboo and fiberglass.

Thanks James, my inspiration to build a proa was partly influenced by your trip to Rapa Nui :) I'm a complete novice at this, a good person to ask is Rael Dobkins, he has built several and is currently on his 4th build I think. He has a really kool channel and have leaned a lot from him. kzbin.info/door/d9ghqB2aRAO6aL9ZAOHKMA

I just watched a video of a Harryproa kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZfXqqR_Z8Z9otE Wow that thing is a beast :) Amazing shunting solution for the gig. Very Kool.

Not much going the reverse from the long proven pacific proa... ama to windward is foolish

Dankie broer. Haha yes he is my quality inspector, Rufus spent so much time watching what I was doing I think he could build one :)

Yes its quiet ingenious and fortunately once the volcanoes become dormant the replanted planted bamboo tolerates the ash as long as it gets regular rainfall.

Hey! hope you guys are enjoying your trip and thanks for the goodies, your cap features in the next vid :) Good question, its hard to explain but in a later video I will show you how, but basically they split flatten and plane the strips.

@@aquasol2121 awesome!