Schooner from Lumber yard materials

[Tom Hoffman]

Sometime in the past there was post on a Schooner approximately 23-25' long made of lumber yard dimension lumber and plywood. It had a really nice look and could be trailered. It was a simple build meant for lake sailling would be my guess. I believe it had a dager board or something similar for a keel.

I hope some one know what I am talking about. I had the link saved in my favorietes, but lost the whole hard drive and all my favorite dream about boat links were lost.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tom...:):):):)

[jollymon]

Sounds like Bolgers Scooner (I believe that's how he spells it).

[Jay Greer]

Bolger's designs are innovative. You owe it to yourself to at least peruse his list of designs. Bear in mind that lumber yard stock is not always suitable for boat building as timbers often are flat rather than quarter sawn and, thus, have the built in potential of cupping and twisting.
Kiln dried lumber also has the potential of warping which can cause no end of problems in boat construction. Inner tension can be lurking in stock, due to lack of pressure balance in the fibers. This often can make a component useless once sawed to shape. Also, the potential of rot in non marine, intended, timbers can make waste to hundreds of hours of personal labor. If your boat is sailed dry and stored on a trailer under weather protection the need for rot resistant materials is less critical than if the boat is constantly exposed to the elements.
Jay

[Tom Hoffman]

Thanks to you both. The Boldger light schooner was the plan I was looking for and I finally had a brain f__t with the help of Jollyman's post and remembered the name, did a search and wah'la there she was.

I just wanted the plan, the contstrucion of the boat will be more in line with normal boat building techniquest that I am familiar with here in the mid west. Expoy and Fiberglass. Most of my internals will be white oar and I will most likely use boat plywood.

Should be a fun build.

Ga'day to you both....