RE: [bolger] Re: Micro for Sale (MA)

I think that the primary justification of water ballast is that you can dump it for trailering. This may not be as good as it sounds because you generally have to haul the boat out of the water and up the ramp before you can dump the water. This also wets down the ramp which may not make you popular. And, of course, water ballast tanks can harbot and transport snails and hydrilla. WDJ is a pretty hefty boat for trailer sailing and I would be inclined to replace the ballast tanks with an appropriate amount of metal, gaining some room and eliminating potential rot traps. But my views are hypothetical as I don’t own a WDJ and I don’t have to trail it anywhere!

 

Have fun.

 

JohnT

 

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Sent:Monday, August 15, 2016 8:28 AM
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Subject:[bolger] Re: Micro for Sale (MA)

 

 

Hi,

I come back to your posting. I hope that your William D. Jochems scooner is ready and sailing.

As you may remember I am building the WDJ scooner and must soon decide if I shall use water ballast as originally specified or if I shall cover the bottom with steel plates and omit the water tanks. I think to do both wil be difficult because the through bolts for the steel plates will end up with nuts and washers inside the water tanks and be difficult to inspect and maintain.

After this summer, what is your experience with the scooner, the original water tanks and the 500 lbs of lead that you got when you bought your boat?

Hope you see this and have got time to answer. Thank you.

Kind regards
Oddbjorn

Hi,

I come back to your posting. I hope that your William D. Jochems scooner is ready and sailing.

As you may remember I am building the WDJ scooner and must soon decide if I shall use water ballast as originally specified or if I shall cover the bottom with steel plates and omit the water tanks. I think to do both wil be difficult because the through bolts for the steel plates will end up with nuts and washers inside the water tanks and be difficult to inspect and maintain.

After this summer, what is your experience with the scooner, the original water tanks and the 500 lbs of lead that you got when you bought your boat?

Hope you see this and have got time to answer. Thank you.

Kind regards
Oddbjorn
Thanks for posting these photos.  Still looking good!  you were a good steward!  

My Jochems was built with water ballast tanks as specified. It also came with about 400 kg of lead blocks which former owners thought was necessary for stability. Will give you sailing ballast report once I launch her next year. Good luck with your build! Do you know if Bjorn Harbo sold his Jochems in Oslo?
I would like to take the opportunity to inform you that I have started to build the William D. Jochems. I live in Norway.

I started by building larger parts that would be difficult to accommodate when the boat fills up the workshop, and so far I have finished the spars, rudder, skeg and the two leeboards. I think I read that William Jochems finished the boat in a year of part time work. That is really impressive.

I have during the years bult three Bolger boats, the Elegant Punt, the Gloucester Light Dory and the Diablo Outboard. I have also built a couple of British sailing dinghies.

The WDJ plans show an alternative to the water ballast. That is steel plate sections bolted to the bottom, serving both as ballast and as protection for the bottom. I would very much like to learn more about this, may be someone has tried it on this or another design. The boat would be stiffer but I don't like the thought of drilling 72 half inch holes through a new bottom. There is also the work and cost involved.

Kind regards
Oddbjorn

See some new photos I took this weekend here on flickr:

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I bought the Jochems Family Schooner originally built by Bill Jochems, modified by Doc Musecamp and most recently owned by Grover Pagans of Corpus Christi. Grover was kind enough to drive it up here from Texas in July.  The well-travelled hull of the "Blue Moon" now sits on its trailer on Cape Cod via Lake Mead, SF Bay, Lake Winnebago and Galveston Bay.  I plan to launch her next year once I figure out all the spars, rigging and those barn door leeboards.  We also want to rig a solar charging system for a Torqeedo 4.0 outboard for clean auxiliary propulsion. We hope to add some New England destinations to the Blue Moon's log book. She still carries the Lake Mead chart Bill and Susanne used for their videotaped cruise in 1998! 

BTW my wife Frann and I cruised the little Micro to Old Mystic Seaport, Cuttyhunk, Martha's Vineyard, Mattapoisett, Boston Harbor islands, Salem Harbor, Marblehead Harbor, Buzzards Bay, Pleasant Bay and past the West Gloucester home of BCB and Susanne at the Bolger Memorial in 2009. Hope its next owner enjoys her half as much as we did.  

Rob out of curiosity, what is the larger Bolger Boat?

 

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Sent:Saturday, August 29, 2015 10:49 AM
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Subject:[bolger] Micro for Sale (MA)

 

 

Bolger Micro 2-by-2 for sale in Massachusetts.  Graduated to bigger Bolger. Built 2002 by David Jost, Price $1,400.  Cat yawl, 15' 6" with 22" draft.  Spacious cockpit, high freeboard, good fishing and swimming platform.  Fun, seaworthy cruiser/daysailer for two adults.  EZ-loader trailer with new bearings and guide posts, swim ladder.  Sustainable low-impact boat with MinnKota Riptide 55 lb salt water electric motor (AGM batteries negotiable), 8' rowing sweeps. Motor drives her at 2 knots; sweeps a little over one knot. Boat currently in a slip on Cape Cod.  Rob Gogan, Acton MA,  rob_gogan@...  . Sorry, I don't monitor my yahoo email.

 

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Bolger Micro 2-by-2 for sale in Massachusetts.  Graduated to bigger Bolger. Built 2002 by David Jost, Price $1,400.  Cat yawl, 15' 6" with 22" draft.  Spacious cockpit, high freeboard, good fishing and swimming platform.  Fun, seaworthy cruiser/daysailer for two adults.  EZ-loader trailer with new bearings and guide posts, swim ladder.  Sustainable low-impact boat with MinnKota Riptide 55 lb salt water electric motor (AGM batteries negotiable), 8' rowing sweeps. Motor drives her at 2 knots; sweeps a little over one knot. Boat currently in a slip on Cape Cod.  Rob Gogan, Acton MA,  rob_gogan@...  . Sorry, I don't monitor my yahoo email.