Re: William D Jochems

Hi again Bruce,

Yes this is a Bolger design. If you go back to about mesg 98 or so on
this site, Bjorn talks about it. Also there are some photos of the
prototype at:

http://www.ace.net.au/schooner/jochems.htm#start

I believe Mr. Bolger felt it more or less was the next step up on
the "Birdwatcher" type configuration and suggests it to anyone
attracted to "Whalewatcher".

It is water ballasted, shoal draft, and suitable for canal cruising
as well as coasting. And is still trailerable!

Hope this helps.

Nels
Howdy Nels

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nels" <arvent@...>
To: <bolger@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 5:36 PM
Subject: [bolger] Re: William D Jochems


> Are you referring to the photos in the file with that name?

Yes


> I believe the boat is named after the man who commissioned the
> original design.

Ah, I thought it was a bolger design, and I wanted to know which one, so I
could study the plans.

Thanks

See Ya

Have Fun

Bruce

www.cableone.net/bcanderson
Hi Bruce,

Are you referring to the photos in the file with that name?

If you are, then that IS the boat that it is in the photos! The man
who built it is Bjorn Harbo from Oslo, Norway. I just received a note
from Bjorn that he will be continuing his sea trials early Saturday
morning and a friend of mine is hopefully going to get some action
photos.

I believe the boat is named after the man who commisioned the
original design.

Nels

--- In bolger@y..., "Bruce C. Anderson" <bcanderson@c...> wrote:
> Howdy William
>
> What boat is that in your picture section?
>
> Thanks
>
> See Ya
>
> Have Fun
>
> Bruce
>
> www.cableone.net/bcanderson
Howdy William

What boat is that in your picture section?

Thanks

See Ya

Have Fun

Bruce

www.cableone.net/bcanderson
Dear Group,
I know I have said this before: Launching day is aproaching at a
terrifying speed! Uploaded some photos taken yesterday. (The person
controling the jack is my father).
Bjorn in Oslo
Dear Fellow WDJ Builders - current and future,

I ordered a new set of plans from PCB a couple of weeks ago - I
failed to make my own back up copies...

When they arrived yesterday I noticed that the plans were upgraded
12/12/00. The upgrade involve substantial changes of the leeboard
mounts and the construction of the water ballast tanks.

If you do not have the upgraded plans already: get them! For me it is
probably too late, or I will have to do some major surgery on the
work to get access to the parts in question.

The changes seem very reasonable to me although PCB claims they are
not 100% necessary on WDJ. The reason for the upgrade were problems
on a larger boat of similar construction.

Happy Holidays to all of you!

Bjorn in Oslo
Dear Fellow Bolger Boat Builders
Just received and watched the video that Susanne and Phil have produced (starring William D Jochems as William D Jochems). Beautiful!! The Boat is a jewel (not only because her name is Sapphire). For me who is building the boat it is next to phantastic to see what is hopefully going to be the result of my work, of the money I have spent and of the many hours I have NOT spent on other projects that my wife thinks I should have offered more attention...
The film shows WDJ (both man and boat!) from any angle and it is amazing how attractive the boat is both in profile and en face. Seeing her under sail in the light breeze of Lake Mead (imagine a huge lake in the middle of a dessert!) is simply a totally different picture than I had imagined.
Also very interesting are the sequences showing the view from the cabin through the many panorama windows - as if you were on deck. Both Phil Bolger and Bill Jochems contribute with intelligent comments on the design and its philosophy. Bill is obviously proud of and happy with his boat and very satisfied with the performance. He has done a marvelous job.
Enough! Norwegian English is better when kept short!
Get the film. Watch it. Once, twice, thrice(?). Perhabs you too will buy the plans and build the boat!
 
Bjørn
Three new pictures uploaded today (and yes, Gregg, they are
compressed!). Pippo, please notice the ply (3/4 inch) framing.
The side panels were glued together today and will be fitted to the
bottom/bulkheads in a few days.

Bjorn
Bjørn:

Looks like you are a real "shade tree" boatbuilder. Looks good. Keep those
jpeg's coming.

Chuck

> Bought a digital camera yesterday (Agfa CL30) and have uploaded a
> picture of my project. It shows the forthermost bulkhead. I will try to
> make the files smaller (400K is too big...).
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Yes, that's too big... (considering Egroups only gives us 20 meg). I used
Thumbs-Plus to compress it under 100K and reloaded. Here's a link for it:

http://www.download.com/pc/list/1,339,0-a-0-0-e-1,00.html?tag=st.dl..srch.li
st&search=thumbs+plus&queryType=quicksearch

Anyway, looks like it's coming along!

Gregg Carlson


At 12:15 PM 10/5/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Bought a digital camera yesterday (Agfa CL30) and have uploaded a
>picture of my project. It shows the forthermost bulkhead. I will try to
>make the files smaller (400K is too big...).
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Bought a digital camera yesterday (Agfa CL30) and have uploaded a
picture of my project. It shows the forthermost bulkhead. I will try to
make the files smaller (400K is too big...).

Bjørn
I started in March and hope to launch her next summer. If you can build
her in your own heated garage (or if the climate is right) it shouldn't
take more than three or four months.

Bjørn

> Great looking boat! What's your guesstimate on time to build it?
> David
Great looking boat! What's your guesstimate on time to build it?
David

Chuck Leinweber wrote:

> Phil:
>
> I have scanned the drawings that were in the March 1, 1997 MAIB, and put
> them in the egroup vault area. Look for jochems.gif.
>
> Chuck Leinweber
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> >
> > Where can one find line drawings and specs of this craft? I've never
> > seen "Coastal Cruising" magazine -- it is not available in my area.
> >
> > Phil Lea
> > Russellville, AR.
> >
> > original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/bolger/?start=98
> > > I am currently building the 25 foot waterballasted leeboard family
> > > schooner named after its comissioner William D Jochems. Bill built the
> > > prototype and as far as I know no other WDJ's been built so far. Bill
> > > has some really nice photographs of his boat and I think it has been
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> Where can one find line drawings and specs of this craft? I've never

> seen "Coastal Cruising" magazine -- it is not available in my area.
Phil:

I have scanned the drawings that were in the March 1, 1997 MAIB, and put
them in the egroup vault area. Look for jochems.gif.

Chuck Leinweber


>
> Where can one find line drawings and specs of this craft? I've never
> seen "Coastal Cruising" magazine -- it is not available in my area.
>
> Phil Lea
> Russellville, AR.
>
> original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/bolger/?start=98
> > I am currently building the 25 foot waterballasted leeboard family
> > schooner named after its comissioner William D Jochems. Bill built the
> > prototype and as far as I know no other WDJ's been built so far. Bill
> > has some really nice photographs of his boat and I think it has been
> > featured in the March/April issue of "Coastal Cruising".
> > I plan to put photos of ....
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Where can one find line drawings and specs of this craft? I've never
seen "Coastal Cruising" magazine -- it is not available in my area.

Phil Lea
Russellville, AR.

original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/bolger/?start=98
> I am currently building the 25 foot waterballasted leeboard family
> schooner named after its comissioner William D Jochems. Bill built the
> prototype and as far as I know no other WDJ's been built so far. Bill
> has some really nice photographs of his boat and I think it has been
> featured in the March/April issue of "Coastal Cruising".
> I plan to put photos of ....
Two new pictures from the building progress of my schooner uploaded today. They were taken couple of months ago. Not much building in July. The pics show the building site in my father's back yard and the cradle which was not yet finished. The panels were cut and coated on my balcony and in my tiny garden. The side panels are supposed to be butt strapped together and glass coated in one piece; i.e. 25 ft. My balcony is not that long... I had to glass coat the panels one by one and will be taping and butt strapping them together before attaching them to the bottom and bulkheads. This weekend I glued up the shoe of the bottom (two layers of 3/4 ply, abt 2 feet wide). I hope it is allright with you for me to upload the relativly small jpg's to this site as I have trouble fixing my home page. Bjørn
Excellent - I'll have a look...

Gregg

At 01:01 PM 8/14/99 -0700, you wrote:
>bharb-@...wrote:
>original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/bolger/?start=100
>> bharbo -
>>
>> I am looking forward to seeing more about this boat - keep us posted
>when
>> you get some pictures up.
>>
>> Gregg Carlson
>>
>Sorry Gregg, a slip of my thumb caused an empty posting. I have
>uploaded a gif of the family schooner under "Vault". I'll try to scan
>some of my pictures tomorrow.
>
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original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/bolger/?start=100
> bharbo -
>
> I am looking forward to seeing more about this boat - keep us posted
when
> you get some pictures up.
>
> Gregg Carlson
>
Sorry Gregg, a slip of my thumb caused an empty posting. I have
uploaded a gif of the family schooner under "Vault". I'll try to scan
some of my pictures tomorrow.

Bjorn
bharbo -

I am looking forward to seeing more about this boat - keep us posted when
you get some pictures up.

Gregg Carlson


At 10:50 AM 8/12/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I am currently building the 25 foot waterballasted leeboard family
>schooner named after its comissioner William D Jochems. Bill built the
>prototype and as far as I know no other WDJ's been built so far. Bill
>has some really nice photographs of his boat and I think it has been
>featured in the March/April issue of "Coastal Cruising".
>I plan to put photos of the building process on my homepage (
>home.sol.no/~bharbo ) (by now it only contains my genealogy-database)
>when I can find time to scan my pics. So far I have cut and coated
>almost all the panels and will start the assembly in a few days.
>I live in Oslo, Norway and climatic conditions and the fact that I am
>building the boat in the open limits the speed of the progress. However
>I hope to launch my dream ship next summer.
>Last year I built two identical CLC kayaks (Chesapeake 17). I have no
>other boat building experience.
>As many of you I have several plans and even more study plans. The
>decision to build the WDJ was taken after having asked Phil Bolger for
>advice. I had in mind building either Micro, Long Micro or Martha Jane
>- all of them being far to small for my family. I will also need a
>tender for my boat and plan to build the Cartopper.
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I am currently building the 25 foot waterballasted leeboard family
schooner named after its comissioner William D Jochems. Bill built the
prototype and as far as I know no other WDJ's been built so far. Bill
has some really nice photographs of his boat and I think it has been
featured in the March/April issue of "Coastal Cruising".
I plan to put photos of the building process on my homepage (
home.sol.no/~bharbo ) (by now it only contains my genealogy-database)
when I can find time to scan my pics. So far I have cut and coated
almost all the panels and will start the assembly in a few days.
I live in Oslo, Norway and climatic conditions and the fact that I am
building the boat in the open limits the speed of the progress. However
I hope to launch my dream ship next summer.
Last year I built two identical CLC kayaks (Chesapeake 17). I have no
other boat building experience.
As many of you I have several plans and even more study plans. The
decision to build the WDJ was taken after having asked Phil Bolger for
advice. I had in mind building either Micro, Long Micro or Martha Jane
- all of them being far to small for my family. I will also need a
tender for my boat and plan to build the Cartopper.