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...
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Bruce Hallman
brucehallman
Jan 4, 2011 8:49 pm
... Agreed. Long narrow boats, by their very nature, have sharp bows. That is, unless you chop the bow off, as with a bow transom. <grin>...
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Christopher C. Wether...
wetherillc
Jan 4, 2011 7:42 pm
PCB's comments in Presto Cruiser chapter carry the description "sharp bowed" applied directly to the designation "sharpie". It is implicit that from that...
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Bruce Hallman
brucehallman
Jan 4, 2011 5:59 pm
... Certainly. And compare the deep belly of the Micro to the bottom flatness of a flat-bottom skiff. Different as night and day....
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Jan 4, 2011 5:53 pm
... 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...
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Bruce Hallman
brucehallman
Jan 4, 2011 5:40 pm
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...
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Bruce Hallman
brucehallman
Jan 3, 2011 4:48 pm
... 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...
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Bruce Hallman
brucehallman
Jan 3, 2011 4:26 pm
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Susanne@... ... Best wishes right back at you Susanne! Looking in my mailbox daily for the MAIB AS-34 report. Hmmm,...
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Walter
wearydwarf
Jan 3, 2011 2:09 pm
... 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...
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gary
gbship
Jan 3, 2011 5:28 am
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...
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dennislancaster36
dennislancas...
Jan 3, 2011 3:38 am
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...
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Paul Glassen
paul.glassen
Jan 2, 2011 11:15 pm
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...
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Bill Howard
nellysford2002
Jan 2, 2011 10:41 pm
What is this?...
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Jan 2, 2011 6:37 pm
... I'm the moderator, and I can promise approval will be coming within a day. I'll also see about posting elsewhere....
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Susanne@...
phil.bolger
Jan 2, 2011 5:05 pm
I'd just follow the BIRDWATCHER-approach, or add a shorter version stopping at fore and aft decks. Sitting headroom on a cushion will define your...
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Susanne@...
phil.bolger
Jan 2, 2011 5:04 pm
I'd just follow the BIRDWATCHER-approach, or add a shorter version stopping at fore and aft decks. Sitting headroom on a cushion will define your...
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sirdarnell
Jan 2, 2011 2:37 pm
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....
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sirdarnell
Jan 2, 2011 2:30 pm
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...
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gary
gbship
Jan 2, 2011 5:26 am
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...
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etap28
Jan 2, 2011 4:07 am
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...
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Susanne@...
phil.bolger
Jan 2, 2011 3:30 am
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...
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etap28
Jan 2, 2011 2:33 am
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......
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cecbell
Jan 1, 2011 8:50 pm
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...
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etap28
Jan 1, 2011 5:36 pm
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...
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otter55806
Jan 1, 2011 5:04 pm
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....
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Jan 1, 2011 4:55 pm
... 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...
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Susanne@...
phil.bolger
Jan 1, 2011 4:12 pm
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...
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Fred Schumacher
fredschum
Jan 1, 2011 4:05 pm
... 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 ...
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jhess314
Jan 1, 2011 3:15 pm
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...
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Jan 1, 2011 2:16 pm
... 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,...
