Re: [bolger] Launched
David,
The thing that shines in all your writing here is your enthusiasm for
building boats.
To be in it floating must have been very sweet. Good work.
Mark
David Ryan wrote:
The thing that shines in all your writing here is your enthusiasm for
building boats.
To be in it floating must have been very sweet. Good work.
Mark
David Ryan wrote:
>
> FBBB --
>
> The light scooner Margaret Ellen has been launched. Sails
> beautifully. Wife likes it, baby Margaret Ellen likes it, the dog
> curled up in the forward cockpit and snoozed.
>
> She's my first gaff rigged boat, and after all I have been
> hearing/reading about gaff-rigged performance, I expected to sail
> down the lake and then walk back (no choice but to start at the
> windward end.
>
> Now, having run down the lake and beat back (against the tide, I
> might add,) I just have to assume that modern, high-aspect ratio rigs
> can sail straight into the wind.
>
> I do seem to have a small leak in the daggerboard truck. Nothing
> dire, but she's definitely taking water. Something to chase down
> before she goes back into the water next Spring.
>
> YIBB,
>
> David
>
> CRUMBLING EMPIRE PRODUCTIONS
> 134 W.26th St. 12th Floor
> New York, NY 10001
> (212) 243-1636
>
>
> Bolger rules!!!
> - no cursing
> - stay on topic
> - use punctuation
> - add your comments at the TOP and SIGN your posts
> - add some content: send "thanks!" and "ditto!" posts off-list.
Nice work.
But don't listen to those negative types. Those schooners all piled up there
in Maine simply waited for the next good nor'easter and just broad reached
their way right back down to the home of the Cod and the Bean.
Jim
Peter Vanderwaart wrote:
But don't listen to those negative types. Those schooners all piled up there
in Maine simply waited for the next good nor'easter and just broad reached
their way right back down to the home of the Cod and the Bean.
Jim
Peter Vanderwaart wrote:
> > The light scooner Margaret Ellen has been launched. Sails
> > beautifully. Wife likes it, baby Margaret Ellen likes it, the dog
> > curled up in the forward cockpit and snoozed.
>
> Well done!
>
> Not only is it impossible to sail upwind with a gaff rig, but a
> schooner can't do it even with marconi rig. All those coasting
> schooners were built in Boston, ran Down East to Eastport and were
> abandoned there.
>
> Peter
>
>
> Bolger rules!!!
> - no cursing
> - stay on topic
> - use punctuation
> - add your comments at the TOP and SIGN your posts
> - add some content: send "thanks!" and "ditto!" posts off-list.
David --
Congratulations on the launch! I admit I've been awaiting news of
your launch like some ten-year-old waiting for the new Harry Potter.
It sounds like it went perfectly. How was it getting sails up and
underway -- any difficulty? Have you run all lines to the aft cockpit
for single-handing, or did your wife raise the fore while you raised
the main? Anyway, send us periodic reports if you sail again this
fall. I'm curious about all aspects of this boat.
I'm probably going to start the 25' Chebacco over the winter and
into the spring, though my heart still tugs toward building a Light
Schooner. (Maybe that'll be my 2002 project . . . )
Anyway -- congrats again. We've all followed this boat from its
early moments and it's great to know it has sailed and wowed everyone
out on the East End. I hope you can post some pictures of it out on
the water.
All best,
Garth
Congratulations on the launch! I admit I've been awaiting news of
your launch like some ten-year-old waiting for the new Harry Potter.
It sounds like it went perfectly. How was it getting sails up and
underway -- any difficulty? Have you run all lines to the aft cockpit
for single-handing, or did your wife raise the fore while you raised
the main? Anyway, send us periodic reports if you sail again this
fall. I'm curious about all aspects of this boat.
I'm probably going to start the 25' Chebacco over the winter and
into the spring, though my heart still tugs toward building a Light
Schooner. (Maybe that'll be my 2002 project . . . )
Anyway -- congrats again. We've all followed this boat from its
early moments and it's great to know it has sailed and wowed everyone
out on the East End. I hope you can post some pictures of it out on
the water.
All best,
Garth
>
> The light scooner Margaret Ellen has been launched. Sails
> beautifully. Wife likes it, baby Margaret Ellen likes it, the dog
> curled up in the forward cockpit and snoozed.
Congratulations on successfully completing, launching and sailing your new
schooner! Did the crew you mentioned actually pull on ropes and set sails?
How did the boat feel under way - did it heel to the wind, was is fast,
comfortable, what?
Mike Masten
schooner! Did the crew you mentioned actually pull on ropes and set sails?
How did the boat feel under way - did it heel to the wind, was is fast,
comfortable, what?
Mike Masten
Peter --
If the below is true, then maybe that explains why Bolger calls her a
"scooner" rather than a schooner.
Our course of the beach was dead before the wind for about 3 miles.
On the way back we were beating the whole way and this former racer
of lasers, lightnings and thistles had no complaints about the
"scooner's" windward ability. She pointed nicely and tacked easily.
Perhaps I have hidden talents as a sail maker.
YIBB, (and sailmaking too!)
-D
134 W.26th St. 12th Floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 243-1636
If the below is true, then maybe that explains why Bolger calls her a
"scooner" rather than a schooner.
Our course of the beach was dead before the wind for about 3 miles.
On the way back we were beating the whole way and this former racer
of lasers, lightnings and thistles had no complaints about the
"scooner's" windward ability. She pointed nicely and tacked easily.
Perhaps I have hidden talents as a sail maker.
YIBB, (and sailmaking too!)
-D
>Not only is it impossible to sail upwind with a gaff rig, but aCRUMBLING EMPIRE PRODUCTIONS
>schooner can't do it even with marconi rig. All those coasting
>schooners were built in Boston, ran Down East to Eastport and were
>abandoned there.
>
134 W.26th St. 12th Floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 243-1636
> The light scooner Margaret Ellen has been launched. SailsWell done!
> beautifully. Wife likes it, baby Margaret Ellen likes it, the dog
> curled up in the forward cockpit and snoozed.
Not only is it impossible to sail upwind with a gaff rig, but a
schooner can't do it even with marconi rig. All those coasting
schooners were built in Boston, ran Down East to Eastport and were
abandoned there.
Peter
Congratulations
Jeffery
Jeffery
--- Inbolger@egroups.com, David Ryan <david@c...> wrote:
> FBBB --
>
> The light scooner Margaret Ellen has been launched. Sails
> beautifully. Wife likes it, baby Margaret Ellen likes it, the dog
> curled up in the forward cockpit and snoozed.
>
> She's my first gaff rigged boat, and after all I have been
> hearing/reading about gaff-rigged performance, I expected to sail
> down the lake and then walk back (no choice but to start at the
> windward end.
>
> Now, having run down the lake and beat back (against the tide, I
> might add,) I just have to assume that modern, high-aspect ratio
rigs
> can sail straight into the wind.
>
> I do seem to have a small leak in the daggerboard truck. Nothing
> dire, but she's definitely taking water. Something to chase down
> before she goes back into the water next Spring.
>
> YIBB,
>
> David
>
>
> CRUMBLING EMPIRE PRODUCTIONS
> 134 W.26th St. 12th Floor
> New York, NY 10001
> (212) 243-163
FBBB --
The light scooner Margaret Ellen has been launched. Sails
beautifully. Wife likes it, baby Margaret Ellen likes it, the dog
curled up in the forward cockpit and snoozed.
She's my first gaff rigged boat, and after all I have been
hearing/reading about gaff-rigged performance, I expected to sail
down the lake and then walk back (no choice but to start at the
windward end.
Now, having run down the lake and beat back (against the tide, I
might add,) I just have to assume that modern, high-aspect ratio rigs
can sail straight into the wind.
I do seem to have a small leak in the daggerboard truck. Nothing
dire, but she's definitely taking water. Something to chase down
before she goes back into the water next Spring.
YIBB,
David
CRUMBLING EMPIRE PRODUCTIONS
134 W.26th St. 12th Floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 243-1636
The light scooner Margaret Ellen has been launched. Sails
beautifully. Wife likes it, baby Margaret Ellen likes it, the dog
curled up in the forward cockpit and snoozed.
She's my first gaff rigged boat, and after all I have been
hearing/reading about gaff-rigged performance, I expected to sail
down the lake and then walk back (no choice but to start at the
windward end.
Now, having run down the lake and beat back (against the tide, I
might add,) I just have to assume that modern, high-aspect ratio rigs
can sail straight into the wind.
I do seem to have a small leak in the daggerboard truck. Nothing
dire, but she's definitely taking water. Something to chase down
before she goes back into the water next Spring.
YIBB,
David
CRUMBLING EMPIRE PRODUCTIONS
134 W.26th St. 12th Floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 243-1636