Pjoa Laguna in more wind

Pawel sails single-handed in more wind and on a chop of Puck Harbour (close to Gdansk).
No paddle-steering, proa goes well balanced on all courses and follows the wind. Max speed 12+ knots.

[@MattTucker]

Great work getting the boat to sail without a paddle steering. You make it look so easy! My brother is about re-rig the 30ft Proa we built together 12 years ago and this is very inspiring. We didn’t quite get it right the first time.

[@oj1jo]

Matt Tucker thank you :) Please visit www.pjoa.eu for free download of “Elementary on Sailing Micronesian Way” .pdf Hope you can find it even more inspiring. I would appreciate your opinion.

[@rakim126]

flying! youre giving that boat about all it can handle.

[@oj1jo]

Pleasure you like it. As far as the limits are concerned please watch on my channel "Pjoa passing Baltic brake" or more contemporary and interesting music at segelreto channel my other proa: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJXPg2duf5qElc0

[@marimokayo]

Wow great stuff! Beautiful boat, wish I could sail it with you! I've been on a micronesian sailing binge reading recently, great to see I'm not the only one hooked! Keep going, congratulations!

[@MrSurfa808]

My favorite design out of all the sailing boats

[@oj1jo]

Thank you. It is simply fantastic this rediscovery of engineering genius of Polynesians and finding ways how to manage proas under traditional crabclaws sail.

[@PJMoskal]

I love the shape of that sail!

[@lesp315]

Polak potrafi. Great job.

[@kimparish1982]

So cool! So free!

[@giuseppes.6769]

Bellissima..complimenti...ciao of Sardinia

[@pelageos]

Beautiful boat! 😍 Nice sailing! I'm thinking about to make proa. 🙂

[@oj1jo]

would you like plans to build similar boat, then please contact us at www.pjoa.eu

[@BalkanShipyards]

Cool! V hulls have many advantages in lumpy seas..... nice motion.

[@oj1jo]

The only disadvantage I can see is it hardly dumps hobby-horsing, but with Pjoa Laguna we have found a good balance, I hope.

[@pakde8002]

12+ knots...that little pony rocks. Love the auto reverse. I have been studying catamaran boats for a long time in preparation for building my own little boat but I think I might do a proa first and anyway it's very similar to the balinese traditional jukung or perahu and I am in Bali so why not.

[@oj1jo]

Thank you for opinion. Would you pland to build and looking for plans, then please have a look at our page www.pjoa.eu and consider Puch Pjoa or Folk Pjoa.

[@Captain_Bartolo]

Wow Janusz, look's like very much fun! 👍

[@oj1jo]

Well, it is :). Some of us find Pjoa Laguna so pleasurable, because it is so easy to manage singlehanded.

[@oj1jo]

Pawel has rigged smaller sail, then our regular 10.5 sqm, so one can notice how brailing lines are important for this setup to keep belly shape, even in stronger wind. Good with this sailcut is very little flapping when sheet left free.

[@jakubwalczewski8948]

Very esthetic boat!

[@rrn7769]

👏

[@ljcorley8804]

Very cool

[@m4rt3rz]

very very nice boat!

[@oj1jo]

Thank you a lot :)

[@chrismackay8314]

You made that shunt look easy

[@oj1jo]

Chris Mackay nice to hear this. Shunting is easy once rig is set up having ergonomics on mind. Paweł has to manage also brailing lines during this shunt, which normally is not needed (when full size sail is used)

[@user-ft1ev3nq6p]

Very Cool!!!!

[@wadetarzia]

I once got caught (like a fool) in a small cove, with a rocky lee-shore and a stiff wind, and I had to make several rapid shunts to tack out of it. I proved to myself that this was quite doable with a well-set-up endless tackline, as is done so well here. Small proas could feasibly tack almost as fast as a monohull that must also worry about a jib or genoa.

[@oj1jo]

We have found shunting useful on a river with banks overgrown with reeds :) We were leaving reeds on speed when manoevr was finished.

[@paisabellag-flyer952]

Hej Janusz, what a sweet little boat well flexing and to be handled. Soon hopefully setting out on ice withe the ICCC if we get wind......?

[@oj1jo]

Peter Adrian Isabella G-Flyer hope you have the wind by now:) we have the ice at last here

[@TRYITON01]

Love the build of the akas and the leashing out to the ama. A nice dynamic of flex going on to keep the ama level (if that is what it is called on a proa?).

[@oj1jo]

Micronesians has developed this brilliant solution to the problem of connecting parts of proa (vaka- main pirogue, akas to hang out an oturigger (ama) far away. They allow ama to follow it's local surface, so drag is minimized and structure is not loaded so much, which makes it lightest possible. this one is also fatigue resistant even with low-tech materials. After trying to invent something smarter I have followed this piece of genius just adding a drop of engineering needed adapt contemporary materials available to me.

[@oj1jo]

are you on fb ?

[@longpinkytoes]

there are local innovations from island to island. some designs have wave-piercing bows, and wave-skimming amas which the military would recently agree makes for higher speeds.

[@ROMIENAA]

sabe onde posso achar um projeto de proa rapido e pequeno para levar encima do carro?

[@ROMIENAA]

This project weighs 100 kg, I think it would be good for me something lighter. I do not know if it's possible. : )

[@laquardamak2314]

Dobra żaglówka, pan Janusz. Gdyby ciało było dłuższe, biegałby bardziej energicznie.

[@jasonnabors5045]

Does this have leeboards or is this just bill shape that is allowing you to keep course without much leeway?

[@oj1jo]

No foils, just deep V hull

[@ROMIENAA]

I loved your boat. Does it take two people? Would you have his project? I'd like to make one.

[@oj1jo]

we have plans for slightly bigger Puch Pjoa, 6m long, please visit www.pjoa.eu

[@RomainLange]

Czesz Janusz, I'm in Normandy and would like to build my proa. How have you done yours ? Did you take parts from other boats/vaa ? Do you have some documentation to recommend for a start ? Merci !

[@oj1jo]

Romain Lange, Please have a look at designs at www.pjoa.eu. Please email there what proa you want to build.

[@RomainLange]

@@oj1jo czesz ! I sent you a message yesterday on [e-mail], did you get it ?

[@oj1jo]

@@RomainLange I hope you are satisfied with reply :), pls don't hesitate to call me.

[@barrydavies2977]

So, how do you steer? Do you just pull the sail in some more, and it heads up, or let it out and it bears away?

[@oj1jo]

It is a little more sophisticated :) Please upload (free) a guide from www.pjoa.eu on sailing Micronesian way. I would be glad to know if this adress your concerns.

[@ROMIENAA]

specifically this proa of the video is how many meters long?

[@oj1jo]

5 meters

[@pakde8002]

Really 5 meters? It looks much smaller! I was thinking 4 at the most. You must be over 2 meters tall!

[@pawekowalski7997]

Now in this summer PJOA Laguna is avalible for rent and sail check our website :) www.pjoa.eu Już teraz przez całe wakacje PJOA Laguna jest dostępna do wypożyczenia i popływania więcej info na naszej stronie www.pjoa.eu

[@Kolon999]

No wind, rig furled, paddling: what speed can you sustain? Sprinting speed?.... paddle only. (I am wondering about getting home against a tide with no wind...)

[@oj1jo]

Kolon999 on flat water, I can keep 2 knots for hours, singlehanded. With one paddler like myself 3kts sprint is available. We haven’t measured with two paddlers.

[@pakde8002]

a small micro outboard motor will do the job

[@oj1jo]

Romain, I hope you have noticed a guide to sail Micronesian style on our page, for free download? We will publish a draft of easy procedure how to make crabclaws sail for straight spars. It will be introduction to plans of Folk Pjoa.

[@RomainLange]

No paddle-steering...

[@MaluluKeleGuiSila]

Polynesian here and I’m scared if blue water.....reason..watching the movie Jaws

[@oj1jo]

Do not fear. Respect seems right.

[@deltahunter2302]

Pjoa? Or rather proa

[@oj1jo]

:) Spitfire? Or rather airplane ;)

[@oj1jo]

Www.Pjoa.EU :)

[@luxenetesilva8713]

Please help us to do a sail like this,give the process

[@oj1jo]

luxenete Silva I’m glad you like it. Would you mind to visit www.pjoa.eu? There is more about the boat, how to handle and contact info.