PCB 1967 39ft cat found in a UK maritime museum treasure trove, & Windsprint dreams too
The UKNational Maritime Museum in Cornwall- https://nmmc.co.uk/- a huge treasure trove for boaties!
For example, look at their Yacht Design Database of14000 magazine articles.14,000!(Each available for a small postage/handling/copying fee.)
Go to: National Maritime Museum Cornwall > More > Databases > Yacht Design database >
https://nmmc.co.uk/explore/databases/
"... The volunteers in the Bartlett Maritime Research Centre have trawled througheighteen different titles from as far back as 1891, and have extractedover 14,000articles about individual boat designs. We don’t pretend that this is a comprehensive list because we do not have every copy of every yachting magazine over that period, but we think we have found most of them. If you want to find details of a design then use the search facility below to check if we have what you’re looking for. ..."
14000 articles !!
>http://87.106.22.33/iframe/yachtdesigns.php
15,962 entries !!!
It may be slow if loading the lot - a minute or so, similar when loading a fresh sorting)
Sorted by: ID; Designer; Boat Name; Boat Type; Class/Size; Magazine; Year/Month.
Now then:
Search > Bolger > find 36 designs articles listed
From 1958:
11621 Bolger, Philip C Yacht, motor 29 ft LOA - twin screw Yachting World 1958/06 266 (What one is that?)
To 2009:
4602 Bolger, Phil Chebacco 20 Dinghy, sailing 20 ft LOA Watercraft 2009/11 18
Ok then,what is this?
A multihull, "Arachne", from 1967...
Sail or motor?
>700Bolger, Philip Arachne Catamaran 39 ft LOA Yachting World 1967/09page 416
Also there...
I wonder how PCB's listed write-up ofWindsprintread in CLASSIC BOAT in 1991?
Was Windsprint ever written up by PCB in WoodenBoat or MAIB in the US?Nothing in SBJ...
But, ...In about1994there was a short piece by a Hans Waeker inMAIB, Volume 11 Issue 22, titled 'Rerigging "Windsprint"', that described a neat idea that worked great using the original spars and sail. After corresponding with PCB he rigged a peak halyard,butfixed it not to the peakbutto the yard just above its centre of gravity. The yard then behaved like a gaff in lowering and raising. The new "peak" halyard is rove through the former halyard slot in mast tip, and the throat halyard through a new hole set below the slot. He spliced the two halyards together just above the belaying cleat, so that in raising sail only one halyard need be hauled. The yard now behaving pretty much as a gaff, no thrashing dramas, he fitted lazy jacks shown in PCB's "100 Small Boat Rigs" at page 49. This "peak" halyard / halyard / lazy jack / topping lift combination worked great on his model and at full size.. all handled easily from the cockpit. He gave some measurements.
Dave Thibodeau's index forMAIB Bolger On Designarticles to 23/10/01 shows:
"#423 30' Camper/Daysailer 32'x7'V11I22p28for that issue... aboutMay 15,1994.
But, ...Bruce Hallman's 2008 MAIB Index is blank for that issue. Use 'Search Conversations' for the message archive for:
#59286 From: "Bruce Hallman" <bruce@...>
Date: Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:01 am
Subject: Re: MAIB index of Bolger articles
==============MAIB Index of Bolger articles below=======
Vol No Title Date Opus
V06 N11 Anhinga
V06 N16 A Bolger Rendezvous 1/1/1989
V06 N17 Jinni
V06 N22 Monster Micro, AS-29
V06 N24 Ron Muller's Birdwatcher
V07 N02 Shoebox Punt
V07 N06 Michalak Birdwatcher Launching
'' " " " &etc...
V11 N01 Yamato Fishing Launch 5/15/1993
V11 N02 Commuter
V11 N03 A Trailer Motorsailor
V11 N04 Advanced Sharpie 29
V11 N05 Spartina
V11 N06 Concept For A Steel Excursion Boat
V11 N07 Aluminum Trailer Cruiser
V11 N08 Long Micro
V11 N09 Dick Welch's Microtrawler
V11 N09 Keel Sailing Dingy
V11 N10 21' Canoe Yawl
V11 N10 Long Micro Build
V11 N11 Aluminum Diesel Launch
V11 N12 Flat Iron Skiff
V11 N14 20' Hard Bottom Inflatable
V11 N14 Jinni Build
V11 N15 Compact Charter Schooner
V11 N16
V11 N17
V11 N18
V11 N19
V11 N20
V11 N21
V11 N22
V11 N23 Fie Fia
V11 N23 Common Sense Skiff Build
V11 N24 Schooner Rigged Stonehorse
V12 N01 Eight-oared Cutter 5/15/1994
" " " & etc, etc...
V26 N07 Black Gauntlet Cover
V26 N07 Peter Duff Bio
V26 N07 Life Of Maggie And Peter Duff
V26 N07 Lady Slipper
V26 N07 Canard - Bow Steering
V26 N07 Dovekie Shearwater Nov15 1987 Reprint
V26 N08 Building Sneakeasy
V26 N08 Update On The Plywood 12 Design
end.
"Arachne" cat? From the group designs databases could it be "#398, Cruising Catamaran,Single staysail from aft mast\, Inboard engine"? Sounds much like the Bolger catamaran design in Derek Harvey's reference book Multihulls for Cruising & Racing, but that book wasn't published until 2003. Also a #398 in orderly sequence would be from late 70s early 80s. Of course #398 could feature in the later Harvey book twenty years later, but how would it get in a 1967Yachting Worldarticle some thirteen years earlier than the design numbering sequence suggests?