Re: Micro anchor line
Hi Paul - where are you located on Cape Cod ? I live in Wellfleet, and have built many Bolger designs. I would like to see your project.
Good to hear from you Paul,
Hi from another builder of a partially completed Micro, also lurking in the background of this group waiting for the demands of life to wane so the project can be completed. I haven't put a lot of thought into the anchor line as yet, but I can't see too much wrong with your suggestion. Another point at the stern would be good too for light anchoring, as I'd envisaged storing the anchor there somewhere.
Would love to see some photos of your boat if you have any.
Cheers,
Col
Hi from another builder of a partially completed Micro, also lurking in the background of this group waiting for the demands of life to wane so the project can be completed. I haven't put a lot of thought into the anchor line as yet, but I can't see too much wrong with your suggestion. Another point at the stern would be good too for light anchoring, as I'd envisaged storing the anchor there somewhere.
Would love to see some photos of your boat if you have any.
Cheers,
Col
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, Paul Lefebvre <lefebeaver@...> wrote:
>
> Some of you may remember me, I participated more actively in the forum
> a number of years ago and have continued to lurk. I still have an
> unfinished Micro in my yard; the hull was finished to a pretty high
> standard many years ago and things were going quite well, but then I
> lost my momentum when a blizzard flattened my boatshed on top of the
> whole project. It took me the better part of a year to sort through
> the mess and put up a new shed, and since then I've been getting a
> life lesson in boatbuilding gumption levels when combined with a
> falling-down house and an increasingly demanding business travel
> schedule.
>
> This winter whenever I'm not travelling I plan to hole up in the
> basement and fabricate all the remaining bits that will make this
> thing into a sailboat - keel deadwood, floorboards and mast step,
> mainmast, etc. While working on the mast step and floorboards I've
> been wondering where I'll tie off an anchor line if I ever want to
> spend a night aboard (which was the reason for building it in the
> first place) - I see nothing in the plans to indicate any kind of
> cleat or post and assume the anchor line just goes around the mast and
> out the bottom step hole. Am wondering if folks have come up with any
> clever solutions, or does just tying it around the bottom of the mast
> work out OK? I figure anything stout enough to tie off to will have to
> be pretty well integrated into the hull structure, and I may as well
> make whatever mess that entails before I go to final sanding and
> paint, hopefully next spring/summer.
>
> Am enjoying the ongoing discussion on micro rudders - at one point in
> the heat of building I took a welding class and welded up a stainless
> steel rudder stock, now I'm glad I did!
>
>
>
> Paul Lefebvre on Cape Cod
>
Some of you may remember me, I participated more actively in the forum
a number of years ago and have continued to lurk. I still have an
unfinished Micro in my yard; the hull was finished to a pretty high
standard many years ago and things were going quite well, but then I
lost my momentum when a blizzard flattened my boatshed on top of the
whole project. It took me the better part of a year to sort through
the mess and put up a new shed, and since then I've been getting a
life lesson in boatbuilding gumption levels when combined with a
falling-down house and an increasingly demanding business travel
schedule.
This winter whenever I'm not travelling I plan to hole up in the
basement and fabricate all the remaining bits that will make this
thing into a sailboat - keel deadwood, floorboards and mast step,
mainmast, etc. While working on the mast step and floorboards I've
been wondering where I'll tie off an anchor line if I ever want to
spend a night aboard (which was the reason for building it in the
first place) - I see nothing in the plans to indicate any kind of
cleat or post and assume the anchor line just goes around the mast and
out the bottom step hole. Am wondering if folks have come up with any
clever solutions, or does just tying it around the bottom of the mast
work out OK? I figure anything stout enough to tie off to will have to
be pretty well integrated into the hull structure, and I may as well
make whatever mess that entails before I go to final sanding and
paint, hopefully next spring/summer.
Am enjoying the ongoing discussion on micro rudders - at one point in
the heat of building I took a welding class and welded up a stainless
steel rudder stock, now I'm glad I did!
Paul Lefebvre on Cape Cod
a number of years ago and have continued to lurk. I still have an
unfinished Micro in my yard; the hull was finished to a pretty high
standard many years ago and things were going quite well, but then I
lost my momentum when a blizzard flattened my boatshed on top of the
whole project. It took me the better part of a year to sort through
the mess and put up a new shed, and since then I've been getting a
life lesson in boatbuilding gumption levels when combined with a
falling-down house and an increasingly demanding business travel
schedule.
This winter whenever I'm not travelling I plan to hole up in the
basement and fabricate all the remaining bits that will make this
thing into a sailboat - keel deadwood, floorboards and mast step,
mainmast, etc. While working on the mast step and floorboards I've
been wondering where I'll tie off an anchor line if I ever want to
spend a night aboard (which was the reason for building it in the
first place) - I see nothing in the plans to indicate any kind of
cleat or post and assume the anchor line just goes around the mast and
out the bottom step hole. Am wondering if folks have come up with any
clever solutions, or does just tying it around the bottom of the mast
work out OK? I figure anything stout enough to tie off to will have to
be pretty well integrated into the hull structure, and I may as well
make whatever mess that entails before I go to final sanding and
paint, hopefully next spring/summer.
Am enjoying the ongoing discussion on micro rudders - at one point in
the heat of building I took a welding class and welded up a stainless
steel rudder stock, now I'm glad I did!
Paul Lefebvre on Cape Cod