Editing Proa (section)

===Royal Mersey Yacht Club===
In 1860 a member of the [[Royal Mersey Yacht Club]] in [[England]] built a copy of a Micronesian proa.  He used the traditional asymmetric hull, flat on the lee side, and a decked dugout ama (outrigger). While no quantitative record was made of its speed, it was noted that the proa would run at speeds that would bury the bows of any other vessel.  It carried three times the ratio of sail area to immersed midships section than the fastest yachts in the club and yet drew only {{convert|15|in|cm}}.<ref name=Folkard />