you can ... admire the polynesians ... if you want to ....

for having sailed in their natural craft > to populate all of polynesia !
but can you copy their crew size > mostly their humane environment ?
warm waters .... steady winds .... for your own sailing ....

 I am not going to tell any one to go out hiking to the float ...
in some gusty ... nasty cold weather !

I am not going out their myself ! period . at most >
I want to sit in my protected cockpit and steer ....
or being inside > protected from ....

so we have to adapt the proa of polynesia > to our needs !

we need a rig for this > we need the stability for gusty conditions ...
the polynesians mostly never .... if ever experienced ....

you can see a squall in the trade winds coming for 1/2 hour !
just look at > http://www.proatech.org/100_0012jet.mov

will your own dream design .... survive this and all the rest ?

http://www.proatech.org