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Wikiproa , Proa Community site (wiki). This site moved to http://proa.me/wiki for a while, because of a better wiki platform. Unfortunately this has now disappeared. There is however a backup of this new wikiproa at this location.
Proa File International , Proa mailing list, friendly and very active (in bursts, sort of).
Proafile.com forums , Newer proa forum. Some really creative people on here, check out the design section. This forum is nicer to use bu doesn't have the same number of members as the mailing list.
The Proa FAQ
A Primer on Proas
canoes of oceania , The blog of Harmen Hielkema.
Outrigger sailing canoes , Gary dierkings blog, don't miss!!
Multihull.de proa forum.
Polynesian Voyaging Society
More About American Proas , A duckworks article on the proa.
The Case For the Pacific Proa
Proa section of Wingo.com
Grillabongquixotic’s Blog , Follow the amazing adventures of Chris as he sails his proa down the Mexican coast!
Hungarian proa site (facebook)
http://praopetrel.canalblog.com
Proafile - Rig Options - Overview
Proafile - Crab Claw Tests
Proafile - Proa Rig Comparisons
These boats are all developed for fisheries programs etc.
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SPC Boat Plans Collection, plans for a whole range of boats, including many outrigger canoes!!
Design improvements and evaluations of the fishing performance of Kiribati Fisheries Division canoes
An innovative canoe building and inshore-FAD project in Nauru
An evaluation of FAO/Kiribati canoes in Tokelau
Video: Mau Piailug Sails Restored Micronesian Canoe Hawaii
Video: Taratai, large traditional proa with double oceanic lateen rig.
Video: Proa Gilbert Archipel Old footage. Includes shunting!
Video:Kids in Canoe Singing, together in a small canoe. Don't seem to worried about having no freeboard.
Video: Traditional navigation & sailing in Ifaluk, Micronesia, Description includes link to full video.
Explore Aiaki in Kiribati
CNN News, empty canoe found
White Heron , 14 ft proa in Auckland's National Maritime museum, halfway down the page.
Small canoe (last 2 pics on page).
The art of building a Kiribati canoe
Tebwaaras Canoe , A kiribati style proa, in plywood! Some construction pics.
Kapingamarangi Canoe Building Project
The flying proa of Kapingamarangi
Same as above, bigger pics!
Kiribati Canoe
A Gilbert Islands Canoe - 1945 1
The Kiribati Canoe
Canoes of the Kiribati Islands , How to build a traditional Micronesian flying proa.
Traditional Micronesian Navigation Collection , A lot of great pictures in the collection.
Canoe from the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) , From W E Falck
Video: Guam Chamorro Traditional Canoes
Video: Marshall islands canoe Launching (and capsizing) small one man proa.
Video: Marshallese Canoe race Launching small one man proas in very strong wind.
Video: Marshallese Sailing Canoes Fantastic on board footage.
Sailing Canoe - Draft, Vimeo
Enewetak walap Video of a big Walap
Walap in Enewetak [pdf, 6mb], Measuring, Lashing and Construction Techniques of the Voyaging Canoes of Enewetak Atoll.
Video: Tacking in a Marshallese Sailing Canoe, finally, a video showing the shunt!!
Video: Marshall Islands Outer Island outrigger wa kurkur, Onboard footage.
Marshallese Canoes Today, fantastic documentary on the role of marshallese canoes in modern culture.
Video: Outrigger Marshall Island's-National Cup Race
Video: Sailing Strong Winds in Tumon, Guam , Sailing a small proa
Video: Practicing the Shunt , Same proa as above. Check out this youtube channel for more videos. Also this facebook page.
David A's Photos' photostream , Heaps and heaps of marshall island photos.
Mieco Beach Yacht Club , Here traditional canoes are still raced. I worked out from a race's results they were about 70% the speed of a hobie 16.
Island Hopping: Majuro, Marshall Islands
Hawkey Happenings, WAM Weekend , Recent pics of WAM Canoes.
Pic of fast sailing korkor
Waan Aelon Kein , Nice article about a 52 foot Marshallese Walap (voyaging canoe), good stuff on the physics of an asymmetrical hull.
The same canoe...
The genius of Marshall Island canoe-makers
Modern Marshallese Canoes, a photo essay.
Modern Marshallese Canoes, The Enewetak Walap of 1992, a photo essay
small korkor, marshallese canoe
its a Walap, actually
Fast walap pic.
Marshall Islands Outrigger Canoe Model
Another Marshall Islands Canoe Model
Life in the Republic of the Marshall Islands , A book viewed in google books.
Marshallese Participate In International Festival Of Canoes , Looks like a plywood marshallese canoe.
Facebook - Waan Aelõñ in Majel (Canoes of the Marshall Islands)
WAAN AELÕÑ IN MAJEL , New WAM site, Canoes of the Marshall Islands.
Waan Aelõñ In Majel , Old WAM site.
Picture of a small korkor
Video: Migrations 21: A Ride on a Louisiades Outrigger Sailing Canoe
Video:Tuata – canoe races on Takuu, Papua New Guinea Narrated video, includes shunting and a race. Interestingly these have a rig more typical of marshall islands / kiribati canoes.
Video: Ika's canoe Shows the lashing of the outrigger to a new canoe.
Video: Papua New Guinea Sailaus Canoes
Video: The Sharkcallers of Kontu (1982) pt. 1, Papua New Guinea, big fish for a small canoe.
Papua New Guinea proas
Video: Aquamarine
Video: Srilanka shrimp fishing Onboard footage sailing amidst a giant fleet of orus.
Video: Typical Fishing Boat in Negombo Sri Lanka
Video: Sri Lanka,fishing trip on a wind powered PROA (01) Also watch the other parts!
Video: Oru Fishing Canoe, surfing onto Dickwella Beach, Southern Sri Lanka
Video: Sri Lanka Fishing , The Oru, a unique outrigger canoe.
Video: Catemaran Fishing Sri lanka , Not a catamaran…
Sri Lankan Proas
Video: Sailing aboard a Faluga Island Canoe, Fiji, includes shunting and raising the sail. On board.
Video: Faluga canoe, filmed from a chase boat.
Camacau.flv , Old footage of fijian camacau.
Videos: Pacific blue foundation , On the fijian outrigger canoe. Part 1, 2 and also 3
Video: Alefa Pirogue, fast model outriggers.
Hans building and sailing Lucknow around Indo
Remote Pacific: Yap Sailing Boats, This is the "Yap Day" sailing canoe demonstration in Colonia on March 1997.
Video: First Voyage - The Vaka Taumako Project , Te Puke proa
Video: paraw on boracay beach philippines
Video: iloilo paraw regatta 2012 - sikat ang pinoy
Video: Waioli Voyaging Society
Chamorro and Carolinian Sailing Canoes , Building pics too. Apparently there is a fibreglass class called the Tasi 20.
Alunita’s Distant Cousin , A small ply outrigger canoe in the pacific.
Springing from the past straight into the future , A small proa build in the pacific. Dory type hull with traditional rig.
Photos by John Gilardi , From all over the pacific
Outrigger canoes, art projects.
Chuck Shipman interview
Ancient outriggers , A collection of nice pictures
Canoe Image
Pica Voyaging canoe project , Building a big Te Puke canoe
Proa pics
photo, Boys are rigging a small sailing canoe.
Traditional sailing canoes in Lau , Book in google books.
THE VAKA TAUMAKO PROJECT
The PICA Voyaging Canoe Project
Building an Outrigger Canoe , Building a balsa dugout in panama.
Blue Oshen Sailing Home Page
Sea Wolf Blog - Canoes of Oceania
The Banca Builders of Malapascua
Baurau Outrigger Expedition
Carolinian canoe , Some great pictures.
Wipke's Bigiw Bangkaa , Phillipine double outrigger canoe.