It's worse than the funding for the Olympia just drying up. Some swindler, or maybe it was swindlers, got into the organization taking care of the Olympia and...
Still the same ! As usual, make check out to "Phil Bolger & Friends Inc." Susanne Altenburger, PB&F ... From: Darrell To: bolger@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Since I built what is I believe the second Bantam (launched in 2005) I am curious as to the comment that she lives on her trailer the other nine months of the...
Yes, this would be a terrible tragedy for the Olympia to be broken up. We should be ashamed as a nation to let that happen. The Olympia is probably the most...
In my experience, one of the biggest impediments to readily reefing my LM is the wave action, and not so much the wind. When I sail on a smallish, madmade...
Bantam sits on her trailer most of the year in Fl because 5 years ago I started spending the rest of the year in Canada. It is true winds are calmer in Fl in...
Well said Bill and that's always the case on any small boat. the wind comes up waves build(opposing wind and current!) Boat starts rocking, boom violently...
Pat, I wasn't the one with the reefing hook. I only have one set of reef points in my Micro sail. I run a simple recirculating line through each reef hole and...
Do you mean topping lift? Lazy jacks are usually referred to in the plural... You can use a topping lift with a regular sprit-boom. I Had one on my Michalak...
I have often daydreamed about building Sir Joseph Banks, likely with a reduced hold and more living space, as a floating home, garage and workshop in which to...
Just to clarify, there was never that option offered for the LONG MICRO sail rig. I enquired to Mr. Bolger a long time ago about a LONG MICRO NAVIGATOR but he...
#573 "Sir Joseph Banks" was pushed to plans-status and would indeed be available. Where you are working now, you might get her done to a more favorable budget....
LM should have the same options; already has the main-mast location. We thought that the determined will just do much of that work on their existing hull. ...
One challenge is how best to get steering capability into the deckhouse with LM. Regarding the cockpit not self-draining - well it is not supposed to have a...
Sounds like a great life! Never been boating in that area of Canada, but the articles in boating mags show it to be great! I wouldn't want to spend summers in...
Sail was on sail track, not laced on. I had a ss hook tied to a piece of line and down to a block on the deck, then run aft to a small cleat on the aft edge...
Thanks, Susanne. On the off chance that I don't win the lottery and I would have to tackle such a project with my own retirement funds, are there any other...
If you've won the lottery make her out of copper-nickel (90/10). Slight increase in weight and strength, with same scantlings, but no corrosion or painting,...
For reefing the Micro's mainsail I like David's reefing downhaul idea (though going forward to tie down the reef cringle to the tack doesn't bother me much,...
Back late last winder I posted looking for a live aboard barge to cruise the rivers and bays and to live aboard. I was thinking a wide sharpie kind of hull....
Good morning. All shoveled out ! #370 "Solution-48" (48'x12'8"x2'6") a lugger-ketch steel centerboarder has been built in a number of copies, sometimes back...
Thanks, Susanne, and glad to hear that you are making through the Gloucester winter. Yes, that dory hull made up of straight sides is very appealing, though...
wow...I had not thought of that. lash the new clew to the sprit boom and then lead it aft through an outhaul type arrangement. I am currently working on...
Doug Why all the worry about holding tanks? Most cruisers don't make it that big a deal. Composting toilets seem to work well with small crews. HJ Back late...
Does anyone know why two designers both claim to have designed the boat? I seems, from published pictures, that the design the Wise's built was the Bolger...
I don't know for definite, but my guess would be that both designers were asked to design a boat to the same specification, and the Wise's built the one they...
Pretty much... We asked Phil to design Loose Moose 2 but he told us that he had a huge backlog and could not get to it for a few years. As a result we...
