Dear all As I read this thread about fighting the tiller I was taken back to the plans of my Oldshoe which include: "Tiller batten... bored to take movable...
Has anyone dropped into a race of J-22s (or the like) to compare performance? Especially of the LM. I expect it would be a very traumatizing experience for...
... Sunday sailing my Micro Navigator across the promenade reach of the San Francisco waterfront...I wrote this before, and will say it again: There are...
I do plan to install the Tiller Batten on my Old Shoe. It works and is simple in design. I guess I love steering the boat so much, its pure joy for me. I'm...
My bad. I realized it in the middle of the night, Yes I should have said forward. Myles J. Swift voice line 541-895-3347 President, Computer Assistance Inc. ...
Not a Micro, but a bolger box with a cat yawl rig, my Black Skimmer and I beat a well-sailed Soling with decent looking sails, tack for tack in smooth water,...
I also owned a Black Skimmer for Chesapeake sailing back when I lived in that area - always beat the racing sailboats back to the dock in Georgetown, exactly...
Wayne I live in Gig Harbor, lets go out for coffee, i will bring my bolger plans Jim ... From: Wayne Gilham at Gig Harbor Yacht Sales <wgilham@...> ...
I'll tell you what's funny about those traditional catboats... if you make a high-aspect rudder, a typical modern blade, the weather helm is mitigated hugely....
correcting myself... actually, the high aspect rudder doesn't reduce the amount of drag, it just changes the "gear ratio" so to speak of the steering so it...
End plates help a low aspect ratio rudder, if it's shoal water you're after, but a high aspect ratio reduces drag the most. The high aspect ratio rudder can...
Some of you may remember me, I participated more actively in the forum a number of years ago and have continued to lurk. I still have an unfinished Micro in my...
http://www.hallman.org/bolger/630 At the encouragement of Ed Short (thanks!), I have spent some time in these last few weeks looking closely at the design #630...
"etap28" dave.irland@... etap28: "Woods Hole Spritsail boat"!! Really? Such an odd boat, that one (and not Bolgerian in the slightest, except perhaps for...
Very nice, thanks for posting it. ... From: Bruce Hallman <hallman@...> Subject: [bolger] Illinois, design 630, isometric To: bolger@yahoogroups.com ...
Good to hear from you Paul, Hi from another builder of a partially completed Micro, also lurking in the background of this group waiting for the demands of...
There are some disadvantages to high aspect foils (rudders and center/dagger boards). First, there is the deeper draft, and secondly, they stall out (lose...
Still laughing.... The ETAP was a dog. It almost turned me off of sailing, until I went out on a friend's SeaSprite 23 and "remembered" what a more traditional...
I made the one on the WHSB a kick-up On the other hand, nowadays nobody fishes or works from catboats, but they still put up with those giant barndoors. It...
Am I crazy? I keep looking at Sneakeasy's turtle-backed and think "Wow, that's make a nice pontoon hull." My idea is to take the top of the Sneakeasy from...
Have you ever watched a pontoon boat go? Not efficient. Not the sort of thing to emulate. The origins of pontoon boats were no doubt some leftover something...
Actually, the round bottom should plane, but would require more horse power. However, it should also be more comfortable in rough water. Although I said...
