Re: [bolger] Bolger boats in WoodenBoat
I keep coming back to Swift. What a great boat! Makes me want to buy a
lottery ticket. I'd love to see the deck arrangement, though. Has this one
ever been published anywhere else?
JB
lottery ticket. I'd love to see the deck arrangement, though. Has this one
ever been published anywhere else?
JB
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Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: [bolger] Bolger boats in WoodenBoat
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| There is a very nice portfolio of 12 "non-boxy" Bolger designs in WB
#164 -
| "Swift", Design No. 489, has a "hogged rabbet" which is food for thought.
| (i.e. I don't have a clue about what to make of it as a design concept!)
(but
| it sure has me thinking!)
In a message dated 12/23/01 7:36:07 PM Central Standard Time,
stephen@...writes:
"Swift", Design No. 489, has a "hogged rabbet" which is food for thought.
(i.e. I don't have a clue about what to make of it as a design concept!) (but
it sure has me thinking!)
Pages 44-46 comprise an article by Lang Warren (admirably illustrated by
Kathy Bray) regarding the construction of a "rotating daggerboard". This
seems to me to be very clever and, if the author can be trusted, actually
works as intended! This certainly seems a much better arrangement than the
sacrificial "crush boxes" provided for in some designs for daggerboards (not
by Bolger, to my knowledge). Is it possible that this innovation is
something that "Captain Nat" Herreshoff didn't anticipate 100 years ago? If
so, it must be one of the few real conceptual novelties to be developed in
the interim. It combines the short trunk and efficient foil of a daggerboard
with at least some of the virtues of a centerboard.
Ciao for Niao,
Bill in (no longer semi-tropical) MN
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stephen@...writes:
> I haven't seen it yet, but it looks like the January/February 2002There is a very nice portfolio of 12 "non-boxy" Bolger designs in WB #164 -
> issue of WB will include an article by Mike O'Brien on some of
> Bolger's designs.
"Swift", Design No. 489, has a "hogged rabbet" which is food for thought.
(i.e. I don't have a clue about what to make of it as a design concept!) (but
it sure has me thinking!)
Pages 44-46 comprise an article by Lang Warren (admirably illustrated by
Kathy Bray) regarding the construction of a "rotating daggerboard". This
seems to me to be very clever and, if the author can be trusted, actually
works as intended! This certainly seems a much better arrangement than the
sacrificial "crush boxes" provided for in some designs for daggerboards (not
by Bolger, to my knowledge). Is it possible that this innovation is
something that "Captain Nat" Herreshoff didn't anticipate 100 years ago? If
so, it must be one of the few real conceptual novelties to be developed in
the interim. It combines the short trunk and efficient foil of a daggerboard
with at least some of the virtues of a centerboard.
Ciao for Niao,
Bill in (no longer semi-tropical) MN
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I haven't seen it yet, but it looks like the January/February 2002
issue of WB will include an article by Mike O'Brien on some of
Bolger's designs. Here's the first page:
http://www.woodenboat.com/164050.jpg
Steve Paskey
issue of WB will include an article by Mike O'Brien on some of
Bolger's designs. Here's the first page:
http://www.woodenboat.com/164050.jpg
Steve Paskey