My idea was not to have two hull, but just one, with the wheel mounted on a framework that pivoted to allow steering. Further details in my earlier posts. To...
See "Defender" in Small Boats. 11 ft--capable of carrying four in a "middling seaway" (whatever that might be)--enough stability to get over the bow--tows...
Come on Howard where's your courage??? Maybe I can build a small version to see how it works. Can you draw something so I am sure of what you have in mind? ...
From my experience JB does not tow very well. The forward chines have a tendency to dig in and set a course for JB all her own. And that was just at four...
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Oct 2, 2005 1:55 am
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Thanks all for the responses. Bolger actually made the updates to the new FMS for someone overseas who wasn't happy with the dipping lug rig. There is an...
Hi all I have been a member of the group for a while and have thoroughly enjoyed the banter and have learned more than a thing or two about boats. Bolger...
Steve, I can't promise anything, but maybe later this week I might be in a position to put up a couple of sketches. I'm off off somewhere else for a few months...
... From: Jack&Lois From my experience JB does not tow very well. The forward chines have a tendency to dig in and set a course for JB all her own. And that...
Thanks for all the suggestions. One criterion I neglected to mention was small and light enough to pull aboard if required. Applying that to the boats ...
Past experience towing small prams says the Rueben's Nymph should tow well with the tow point low on the bow transom, especially as it has a skeg. HJ...
Hi All - I've had an interesting thought but in the back of my mind I'm sure someone in the Bolger group knows enough to shoot down my balloon - - - I like...
Jack, Sorry, but I have to ask... by any chance - did Cap'n Scurvey's Best Blackjack Rum have anything to do with this double-vision? Could be the sun, but the...
... From: Will Samson I had a similar experience when I towed her behind my Chebacco, but all was cured when I attached the painter right at the forefoot. No...
Jack&Lois
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Oct 2, 2005 10:29 pm
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For the record, Bolger's theory on water flow in sharpies is contained in the first two paragraphs of his writeup (not the first two paragraphs of the chapter)...
This is wonderful material. Thankyou for the reference, I had only glossed over it before. It goes a long way, seeming to connect many passing, less complete,...
I think one of the first boats Dynamite and PCB collaborated on was designed as a "... triple threat - oars, sail, and power." Thomaston (?) Galley. It's...
... I think that essentially the same thinking may have been written in other places as well, but I don't remember any place in particular to look. I'm not...
You might contact PCB as he still has plans and presumably, some study material on both versions of FMS. Clyde ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
You might contact PCB as he still has plans and presumably, some study material on both versions of FMS. Clyde ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
... I have a note from the web from December00 with the identification http://mims.com/mailb/junebug.htm that concludes: "The one weakness of "June Bug",...
We might wish to discuss the capsize and sinking of the Ethan Allen, a glass-enclosed tour boat on Lake George, NY. It apparently was capsized by a wake of a...
Hi Captain - Of Course - at least 1/2 gallon an I'm working on the second half which helps me to visualize a Super Brick cut in half for a Super brick Cat. ...
Pythagoreans were flummoxed by the irrational number. Though it was consistent, with mathematically expressed theory and remains so, it was suppressed for...
... I am not sure PCB would agree. After all, the Bolger box boat, (the ones with equal curvature sides and bottoms) are cruisers, not racers. They are...
I built a Thomaston Galley many years ago. Never tried to tow it, but it was very wet in a chop, and boarding over the bow could be a major adventure! JohnT ...
... Blah blah blah ... I don't see why this SOP issue constantly comes up here all the time, and on other boating lists as well. Phil Bolger is not dead, you...
