Madness 31-foot Pacific Proa

Almost three years in the making, Madness Proa plans include 37 pages of 24x36 architectural drawings covering all construction details, including both racing and cruising rigs.  Over 100 lineal feet of laser-printed paper covers full-sized patterns for nearly every part in the boat. An option to build the vaka over a strongback rather than stitch-and-glue-style is included.  

While the plans are copiously detailed, building Madness from plans is not a project for first-timers. Builders should have a solid foundation in wood-epoxy-fiberglass composite boatbuilding and fairly sophisticated plans-reading ability.  Rigging details are included, but familiarity with modern rigging, particularly of the multihull flavor, is assumed.

All dimensions are in both metric and standard units. Because of the large size of the package, a shipping quote is required.

These thumbnails show most of what you get in the complete plans package.  First up, the 2x3 architectural pages.  Builders working from kits receive these drawings (but not the full-sized patterns). Scroll down for the materials list.

Detail of a page showing "pod" construction:

Here are thumbnail versions of the full-sized patterns.  Most sheets are 144 inches by 36 inches. The only parts not shown full-sized are the side panels of the vaka.  These were simply too large for full-sized patterns, and are instead provided as dimensioned diagrams.

 

**Note that the last entry, 50 pounds of woodflour, is a good bit more than you need. Suppliers of generic wood flour do not offer it in quantities of more than one pound or less than 50 pounds! Fortunately it's inexpensive...