Re: Bolger TANDEM

Hi John,

> Thanks for your input. Sorry to hear that your sharpie commission
> didn't meet expectations. This TANDEM could be closely related to
> your AURIGA, as it was suppose to be about 50' long. I found the
> reference to it at:
>
>http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14219post #35
>
> I got the idea that it was a finished design, not just partially
> finished. I'd sure like to see the design of these Very Advanced
> Sharpies (VAS? :-).

The content of that post sure sounds a lot like Auriga, except it
wasn't junk rigged (although we originally asked for that).

Jon

Hello Jon,

Thanks for your input. Sorry to hear that your sharpie commission
didn't meet expectations. This TANDEM could be closely related to
your AURIGA, as it was suppose to be about 50' long. I found the
reference to it at:

http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14219post #35

I got the idea that it was a finished design, not just partially
finished. I'd sure like to see the design of these Very Advanced
Sharpies (VAS? :-).

John

--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "adventures_in_astrophotography"
<jon@...> wrote:

>
> Hi John
>
> > I've recently bumped into a reference for a Bolger sharpie called
> > TANDEM, but have not been able to find out anything about it.
> TANDEM
> > was billed as being an improved Advanced Sharpie -- post-AS29 and
> > AS39. Can anyone confirm that TANDEM plans exist and suggest a
> > direction for further information - other than Bolger himself?
>
> Without more information, I couldn't say for sure, but our recently
> abandoned commission had a tandem sloop rig on a 50' modified sharpie
> haull. It's two identical gaff sloop rigs in tandem, or looked at
> another way, a schooner rig with enough spacing between the masts for
> the main staysail to stand on a (more or less) permanenet headstay.
> The idea was to get a lot of light air sail area without any one sail
> being too large for one person to handle. Other advantages include
> simplification of carrying spares. Disadvantages include increased
> complexity and cost.
>
> When it was originally proposed in 2001, Phil told me it should be
> disucssed using schooner nomenclature, which makes sense to me since
> everything about it could be described using existing schooner
> terminology. Later, Susanne wrote that they wanted to start using
> sloop nomenclature but prefixed with "fore" or "aft" depending on
> which mast was being referred to. I thought this was unhandy,
> unnecessary, and would actually become annoying over time since we'd
> be forever be explaining what we meant to everyone else. I included
> this concern in a long list of questions that went unanswered.
>
> Jon Kolb
> www.kolbsadventures.com/boatbuilding_index.htm
>

Hi John

> I've recently bumped into a reference for a Bolger sharpie called
> TANDEM, but have not been able to find out anything about it.

TANDEM

> was billed as being an improved Advanced Sharpie -- post-AS29 and
> AS39. Can anyone confirm that TANDEM plans exist and suggest a
> direction for further information - other than Bolger himself?

Without more information, I couldn't say for sure, but our recently
abandoned commission had a tandem sloop rig on a 50' modified sharpie
haull. It's two identical gaff sloop rigs in tandem, or looked at
another way, a schooner rig with enough spacing between the masts for
the main staysail to stand on a (more or less) permanenet headstay.
The idea was to get a lot of light air sail area without any one sail
being too large for one person to handle. Other advantages include
simplification of carrying spares. Disadvantages include increased
complexity and cost.

When it was originally proposed in 2001, Phil told me it should be
disucssed using schooner nomenclature, which makes sense to me since
everything about it could be described using existing schooner
terminology. Later, Susanne wrote that they wanted to start using
sloop nomenclature but prefixed with "fore" or "aft" depending on
which mast was being referred to. I thought this was unhandy,
unnecessary, and would actually become annoying over time since we'd
be forever be explaining what we meant to everyone else. I included
this concern in a long list of questions that went unanswered.

Jon Kolb
www.kolbsadventures.com/boatbuilding_index.htm

Hello all,

I've recently bumped into a reference for a Bolger sharpie called
TANDEM, but have not been able to find out anything about it. TANDEM
was billed as being an improved Advanced Sharpie -- post-AS29 and
AS39. Can anyone confirm that TANDEM plans exist and suggest a
direction for further information - other than Bolger himself?

Thanks,
John