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New boats from Italy!

I've seen a growing interest about fast hard chined boat in sailingAnarchy, and I designed two VERY fast boats of that type,made of wood-epoxy...the little one (Protonio) is a 4,5 meters skiff that won the award for the most beautiful wooden boat in La Rochelle (France) 2004 yacht show. She's very narrow and not easy to sail (no stability at all, 0,56m of waterline beam),but what a speed..even without wind! She's my boat. The big one (StarTruc) is a "more serious" boat, 5,9 meters lenght and only 260 kg of displacement, with a 110 kg bulb and a huge stability, a powerful square top mainsail and little jib (no winch to trim the sheet), 1,5 m bowsprit and a gennaker. She has an inverse bow (like Protonio) to look strange and cut the waves,a lot of power in the stem to surf, a quite narrow waterline but a big beam to use the crew weight and an enormous cockpit. She's lighter than any other 6 meter sport boat (I think) but very stable, She can surf upwind and the speed with gennaker is amazing! I'm now building a quite bigger and faster sportboat, a 6,5 meter light and powerful (tomorrow I'll take some photos), this time in fiberglass... because wooden boats are strong, lightweight and certainly beatiful... but it takes a long time to build it! I hope you're intersted in my boats,and hope you like it! Write me if you need bigger photos or something else, use things I wrote if it's ok..maybe cut it or correct it if I did some mistakes (I'm italian) thank you and congratulations for sailingAnarchy, it's very good.

Bye
Paolo Bua - Trucdesign