Lots of speed, not much money.Madness is a lightweight “Pacific” or windward proa, intended for fast cruising with two adults or daysailing with four. With a payload of just under... Plans updated and expanded in August 2019. PDF download now available! 16 years after Mbuli's release, we've revisited this fun design.

Madness is a lightweight “Pacific” or windward proa, intended for fast cruising with two adults or daysailing with four. With a payload of just under 1000lbs, accommodations are ideal for an adventurous couple who want to cover a lot of ground, island-hopping through the …

Mbuli (pronounced em-BOO-lee) is a Pacific proa designed and built by John Harris at CLC in 1999 and 2000. The original design brief called for a lightweight beachcruiser, easy to build, and capable of carrying one or two people around protected waters at faster-than-average speeds. As such, it was a successful design, much admired and coveted.

Oct 15, 2024 · MADNESS was professionally built by Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC) and Sea Island Boatworks under the designer John Harris’s supervision. Completed and painted with Awlgrip in 2011. This is the prototype and Hull #1 for CLC’s line of Pacific Proa kits.

More vidoe from the chase boat of the Pacific Proa, Madness, sailing on the lower Chesapeake Bay. For most of the day, Madness was sailing at around 12 to 14 knots baed on the gps carried onboard...

Clips from the launch and first sail of the 31-foot proa, "Madness," designed by John C. Harris and built by Chesapeake Light Craft.

Performance cruising Pacific proa, ranging in length from seventy to ninety feet (21..26 meters), ranging in displacement from seven to eighteen tons.

A proa is an outrigger sailing canoe, developed in ancient times by Oceanic people. Using folk technology, they brought proas to an almost impossibly high pitch of refinement---long before...

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.

John Harris of CLC has taken delivery of his screaming yellow 31’ proa ‘Madness’ from Sea Island Boatworks in Charleston, NC, and says he’s looking at about a month of fitting out before the maiden sail. Madness was inspired by, and designed …