Home Up Here be Dragons Sailing Experience Lightning Attacked Victual Red Sea Pirates Watch Keeping Crewing Atlantic Medical Canal Routes to Med Tonga & Fiji Marquesas Panama Canal Bambola PROUT OWNERS ASSOCIATION Eloise Diary Blue Water Destinations Canals Trip Canal du Midi Log Biscay log Book Helicopter Rescue 1st Time with VHF Boat Import CE plate ELOISE Prout Quest 33 E BOOKS BOATS SPANISH LAWS  FOR BOATS North Spain West Coast France La Rochelle Storm Damage Admiralty Charts Avon Life Rafts BOATS FOR SALE

PROUT OWNERS ASSOCIATION

Up Membership List Join Now French Canals Headlining!! Leaking Windows! Prout Original Catalogues

Francis Prout, the remaining Prout brother, died at the age of 89.

It’s the end of an era for the pioneering catamaran building duo from Canvey Island, Essex. Roland, who died in 1997, was the elder brother of Francis and between them they created the first production catamarans in the world.  Their father Geoffrey, an author of yachting books began the boatbuilding firm with folding dinghies and canoes. From 1935 ‘Prout Folding Boats’ were being shipped all over the world.www

Roland and Francis Prout were successful canoeists who paddled for Great Britain in the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. Soon after, they decided to tie two of their sleek cold-moulded kayaks together with bamboo poles resulting in an efficient high-speed sailing craft. The Prout business grew from those successful experiments in 1954 to the most famous and well respected catamaran producing company in the world, picking up a ‘Queens award for industry’ along the way. In 1964 it was a Prout catamaran that became the first multi-hull to circumnavigate the globe. The brand lives on today with Prout International producing the new generation of Prout catamarans.

During World War 2 Francis was a Hurricane pilot and in 1979 he became a ‘Freeman of the City of London’. He was also a past president of the ‘Ship & Boat-builders National Federation’ now the BMF (British Marine Federation).

Francis Prout will be sadly missed, the achievements he made and the contributions to the catamaran industry, alongside his brother Roland are difficult acts to follow.

Steve Prout
Exclusive UK Representative
for Prout Catamaran Sales
07720935977
steveprout2@gmail.com

  PROUT OWNERS ASSOCIATION

FORUM

Please do make use of the FORUM contact other members and to share helpful  information or seek advice..

Boat Name, Type, Home Port
Boat Name - Type - Home Port

 

If you are thinking about using the French canals to passage between the UK and the Mediterranean then this book contains all the information you need.

 It describes the Routes, the regulations the paperwork - How where and when to get the qualifications and license, the depths, air heights, locks and a whole lot more.

 FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO

THE FRENCH CANAL ROUTES

Available in the Boat Shop

      Navicarte - French Canal & River Charts here

 

 

 

Up Membership List Join Now French Canals Headlining!! Leaking Windows! Prout Original Catalogues

Why not take your Prout to the Mediterranean next summer?

 

GENTLE SAILING ROUTE

 TO THE

MEDITERRANEAN

 

 

'New Prout Catamarans' here

 

MEMBERSHIP LIST

JOIN NOW

HELP WANTED

FORUM 

FRENCH CANALS

HEADLINING!!!!

HELPFUL HINTS GIVE ADD TAKE

PROUT ORIGINAL CATALOGUES***new

SPECIFICATIONS.

'Eloise' parked in a canal in northern France on her way down to the Med.

More info on that trip under

 

FRENCH CANALS

 

The Portuguese Prout

Vesper visited Morocco and the Canary Islands. Reprint of article here

Headlining

Leaking windows

Prout Sirocco info

PROUT ORIGINAL CATALOGUES

Heavy boatyard trailer for sale

 

If you are thinking of taking your Prout from the UK to the Med then you can find the options at:-

UK to Med Routes and VV

If you want to know more about the French Canals then  :-

French Canals

Welcome

to the PROUT OWNERS ASSOCIATION which I hope you will join and participate in?

The objective of this site is to enable Prout Catamaran owners to keep in touch, exchange tips and information and find out what works and does not. All intended to make sailing more fun and not to be too serious. Exchange help and information. Costs nothing to join and only take a couple of minutes.

The MEMBERSHIP LIST is just that. If you want to contact an owner with a similar Prout or are interested in their opinion before buying one yourself or intend cruising in their area and would like to say hello then this is the way to get in touch. Why not join and be on the list?

JOIN NOW is a little form to fill in and send to me so that you can be included in the membership list.  Fill in as many or few of the details you want - all are welcome..

SUBSCRIPTION: 

Boat Name, Type, Home Port
Boat Name - Type - Home Port

 FORUM  Please visit the forum to exchange 'Prout' or sailing information. If you want to sell your boat or nautical items there is also a section for that...  Please note this is a brand new forum and if you used the previous one you will have to 'join' again... The old forum has been dispatched to the sin bin permanently.

PROUT ORIGINAL CATALOGUES***new

SIROCCO 26

PROUT EVENT 34

PROUT SNOWGOOSE

PROUT SNOWGOOSE 37

PROUT ESCALE 39

courtesy of

Martin Smythe

FRENCH CANALS are pages of the experiences of owners taking their Prouts north and south by this bridge between the UK and the Mediterranean. Do feel free to add your experiences.

If, like me, you have suffered from headlining 'droop', then HEADLINING

SPECIFICATIONS are for you to refer to and to help fill in. If every Prout owner can send the necessary information with pictures if possible we can build a useful data base

WHERE ARE YOU?  has got one of those Frapper Maps of the world which enable you to put the location of your boat with a map marker - if you want.

Stability Tests - anybody help?

Sean Jacob

TS Rigging Limited

Cooks Yard

Hythe Quay

MALDON

 info@tsrigging.co.uk

We are about to re-rig a Prout 45 Catamaran in Hollyhead, Anglesey and were hoping to find an example of a Prout 45 locally (we’re based in Maldon, on the East Coast) to have a look at before we go over to Wales, to ensure we’re best prepared.  I wondered if you knew of any Prout Catamarans kept on the East Coast or near London?    Full info here

Read the latest book on the French Canals and rivers

FRENCH CANAL ROUTES

These people do excellent sails for catamarans and used to supply Prouts

www.dolphinsails.com

tel. 01255 243366

fax. 01255 240920

To visit the sailing pages with information on the French Canals and the Panama canal etc.  HERE

Up Membership List Join Now French Canals Headlining!! Leaking Windows! Prout Original Catalogues

 

  PROUT OWNERS ASSOCIATION

FORUM

Please do make use of the FORUM contact other members and to share helpful  information or seek advice..

Boat Name, Type, Home Port
Boat Name - Type - Home Port

Contents

1 – Planning the voyage

2 – South coast to Chenal du Four

3 - Chenal du Four to La Rochelle

4 - La Rochelle to Spain overview

5 - La Rochelle to Coruña

6 - Coruña to Gibraltar

Why not take your Prout to the Mediterranean next summer?

 

GENTLE SAILING ROUTE

 TO THE

MEDITERRANEAN

 There are several ways of getting your boat to the Mediterranean. On the back of a lorry, via the French canals, four or five day’s non stop across the Bay of Biscay then down the Portuguese coast or spend the summer or two, gently coasting southwards, enjoying the harbours, cities, towns and villages of France Spain and Portugal.

 

This is not a pilot book, rather a passage plan and guide to the nicer places between the South Coast of the UK to the beautiful Mediterranean Sea.  It can all be done in easy stages, to suit a lightly crewed boat, with perhaps only a couple of people on board who are without ‘offshore’ experience.  Actually, it is a lovely way to explore a lot of delightful foreign places.

More Here

 

The Ebook version is available now £4.50

 Specially drawn charts of:

 

Cherbourg to L’Aber-Wrac’h.

Chenal du Four to La Rochelle

La Rochelle to Spain

La Rochelle to Coruña

Coruna to Gibraltar

+

illustrations, pictures, paintings

The Prout catamaran returns

 Prout International are now manufacturing a whole new breed of multihulls both power and sail at their new factory in Zhuhai, China. The product range starts from 50ft with the P50sw. All craft are very well designed by the in house design team and built to an extremely high standard. Workmanship is second to none with lightweight interiors having delightful curves and shapes and incorporating a high finish. Interiors include marble work surfaces (laminated with aluminium honeycomb for lightness), top grain leather upholstery and fine veneered joinery. An all round view from the saloon is achieved through the compound curved laminated tinted safety glass windows.. The website can be visited at www.proutinternational.com

For UK sales and information contact Steve Prout at steveprout2@gmail.com

Home Up Here be Dragons Sailing Experience Lightning Attacked Victual Red Sea Pirates Watch Keeping Crewing Atlantic Medical Canal Routes to Med Tonga & Fiji Marquesas Panama Canal Bambola PROUT OWNERS ASSOCIATION Eloise Diary Blue Water Destinations Canals Trip Canal du Midi Log Biscay log Book Helicopter Rescue 1st Time with VHF Boat Import CE plate ELOISE Prout Quest 33 E BOOKS BOATS SPANISH LAWS  FOR BOATS North Spain West Coast France La Rochelle Storm Damage Admiralty Charts Avon Life Rafts BOATS FOR SALE

THIS PAGE

IS DEDICATED TO BOOKS YOU CAN DOWNLOAD INTO YOUR COMPUTER AND LATER PRINT OUT...

1) French Canal Routes

2) Living Aboard Around the World

3) The La Rochelle Guide Book

4) Build Your Own HOVERCRAFT

5) Build an American 16 ft Dory

6) Manuel for Handling TWIN SCREW boats

7) Build your own houseboat

8) GENTLE SAILING ROUTE TO THE MEDITERRANEAN