... There was an article long ago in Small Boat Journal about using an expensive foam to build a dinghy. It was an amateur project, and the design is clunky,...
First, a MAJOR caveat -- I am NOT a naval engineer. The following is offered only for the sake of discussion: Many boat designers, Phil Bolger included, seem...
... I think Phil realized water flows under the hull. He discusses it in some of his writings, about water being displaced down against the incompressible ...
Good Morning on this first day of 2011. I wish you all a good year. I would like to thank you for your continuing interest in Phil's and our work. I hope that...
... Yes. In the discussion quoted, he is only interested in the flow over the chines. Of course, it's great if the water is neatly divided by the chine, but...
Hi Fred, The short answer is YES! I use the boat on Lake Superior, been to the Apostles many times. Use it on the St Louis; love Pokegama and Kimball bays....
Has anybody here sailed both a Bolger Bobcat and a real Beetlecat? I sailed a Beetlecat at Mystic in '07 and really loved it. But they're not really a dry-sail...
I'm also not a naval (or any other kind of) engineer. What follows comes from what I've read from those who are. Caution is advised. What's being described in...
No offense, Lance, but your insistence over a few different forums (Woodenboat and this one) that Black Skimmer is slow is starting to make me a little nuts......
This message seems to gotten lost in YAHOO world somehow. So I re-post it some 11 hours later: "Good Morning on this first day of 2011. I wish you all a good...
Well said, Suzanne, thanks for the update, and best New Year's Wishes to you and Phil's continued legacy. And I trust this confirms that Yahoo is still in...
Happy New Year, Susanne. Great to hear from you as always. I really enjoyed the writeup of the AS34 in MAIB, and am looking forward to the promised followup of...
Peter you need approval to join. In any case, open celled foams can be saturated with water and sink (might take a long time.) Closed cell foams have gas...
Simple answer: The answer differs with displacement and planing boats. A displacement boat moves through the water causing the water to flow around the hull....
I have been reading Phil Bolger's thoughts on sharpies for around 40 years. So sometime in the mid 1970s I decided to conduct an experiment to test his...
My mind turns to mush when it comes to this stuff. I enjoy reading it, but all I can really say is that my Oldshoe's pointy end goes where I want it to, most...
I like the idea of a removable cabin. My initial thoughts were to thicken the bottom from 3/8 to 1/2 or even 3/4 inch which would do away with the bottom...
... Happy New Year to you, Susanne. Best of luck in the coming year. Your recent article in MAIB, on the Matsue Traveler Study, was a great insight into how a...
... It's relative of course. Being massive, the water stays more or less still. It moves briefly out of the way, and then returns to position, as the hull...
It is worth mentioning that when PCB speaks of "sharpies"; he is not thinking "sharp chine" like with his box boats. Micro and Old Shoe have sharp chines, but...
... I would say his world view was plenty wide to include both types. He designed both types, plus plenty of similar boats. However, his remarks on a high bow...
PCB's comments in Presto Cruiser chapter carry the description "sharp bowed" applied directly to the designation "sharpie". It is implicit that from that...
Absolutely. I was trying to make the point that there seems to be more to the mix in order to be called "sharpie" in the classical terminology. I have not...
