[MHml] Proa with Flettner: Which MM issue ?

[Roy Mills]

At 01:36 PM 9/30/06, you wrote:
>To the subscribers of Multihulls Magazine here:
>
>I am trying to get / read the article once published in MM
>about a "proa with Flettner rotor"
>
>According MM, they indeed had one in the 80´s,
>but that was before desktop publishing came in,
>and there`s no chance to search by keywords or such.

         Darn you for a time waster Claas. I just 
looked through my copies, found nothing about a 
Flettner proa. Admittedly I just looked through 
the Contents page. I also admit that my sets are 
only complete from 1982, with 3 copies in 81 and 
only 1 in 1980, so that too may be the reason for failure.

          However, it was very interesting in 
many other ways, pictures of state of the art 
ocean racers with pin head mains and no full 
length battens. An article on kite sailing that 
was not by Dave Culp. A question by Ava about 
what happened to the C Class, with some 
interesting responses from owners.  One very keen 
sailor from California said that to really 
perform the weight had to be kept down below 500 
pounds, and home builders could not build dddown 
to 500 pounds. I found that interesting because i 
recently weighed one of the C Class hulls I have 
and it weighed 220 pounds, I will find time to 
weigh the crossbeams, centreboards, rudders and 
trampolines, but I expect the platform to weigh 
500 pounds without the rig. How right he was.

         M.M. was more interesting in those days 
I think, almost every issue had articles by 
designers on their latest designs, many of them 
now famous names in the pantheon of successful 
multihulls. Perhaps we should all, from time to 
time, look back over the years and see what has 
happened, other than French built charter 
catamarans and their look alike commercial 
competitors. The development has been significant in more ways than that.

          So I retract my first statement, thank 
you Claas for getting me to scan those old 
issues. " I wonder how the Jeffrey twins grew up 
after being raised on a small cat"

         Cheers   Roy

>If anyone *has* those issues from 1980 to 1990,
>theoretically 10x 6 = 60 issues of 60 pages each ...),
>it would be great to get either the certain issue number,
>or a small 100 dpi b&w scan 800x600 just monitor readable.
>
>I am sure Ol´ Flettner thought of the proa first,
>before he installed his rotors on coaster "Buckau" in the 20`s.
>
>Thanks,
>Chris
>
>BTW, the designer of the discussed 6.5m Flettner proa
>plywood-flat out built by the Flensburg University guys
>is named Jonathan Foucher, most likely French
>I`ll sail her tomorrow (Sunday).
>
>
>
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