Re: [bolger] Digest Number 2096

If it was really designed to handle Lake Michigan at it's worst, it
can handle any ocean.

Ted Turner once defamed Lake Michigan as "a little mill pond" and
famously apologized after he experienced a Lake Michigan storm which
demasted his yacht.

> Jason,
>
> The hull is flat-bottomed, i.e.no deadrise. There is a large pivoting
> centreboard, although not on the centreline but out to starboard about
> half-way out between the centreline and the hull side. Apart from the
> bottom, cross-planked from 1 1/2" square strips, there is 1000lb of lead
> ballast, in two flat castings that are curved when installed to sit on the
> bottom planking inside the hull. Draft is 1'6"/5'3". Designed displacement
> is 5000lb.
>
> PCB doesn't say whether she is self-righting. My guess is that she
> would up to at least 90 degrees or so. According to Bolger, the owner
> wanted "a beaching cruiser to use for a while in San Francisco Bay and
> then trail to Lake Michigan..." So she is not designed as an ocean
> cruiser.
>
> Sorry, no access to a scanner. Full details are in PCB's "30-Odd
> Boats".
>
> Howard

-- Don