Proa for sale...

I've always wanted a proa and over the years have come up with more than a few cunning plans that involved a proa...

Folks that understand the appeal of a proa know EXACTLY what I am talking about (the rest of you can simply go on to the next post).

A friend of ours (in fact after Hurricane Omar he pulled our boat off the beach) is getting ready to move over to Southeast Asia to open a boatyard doing big (70ish foot) cats and proas which is seriously fun stuff, but what may interest Boat Bits Proa folk is that he is going to be selling his fifty-eight foot proa which I have long admired and with good reason! The boat designed by Daniel Charles was a cutting edge racer which held one of the world speed records in Brest and you might have known it as "Tahiti Douche" or "Lessives Saint Marc" which were names it campaigned under.

To say this is a seriously cool boat and a living, breathing bit of nautical history is something of an understatement...

Seriously, the boat needs a good home and at 40,000 Euros it's a steal.