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No need for the complexity of a plotter, (unless you want to do it).

A much lower tech, cheap, and quick way to get expanded plank layouts out of Free!Ship is to set the "x-grid" and "y-grid"...

To my knowledge Phil Bolger did not build models. (I think he was enough of a genius that he did this 3D modeling inside his head.)

He did, on several occasions, build small scale prototypes to...

Thanks Stu. I like your Redwing, and have updated my isometrics page with it. Again, thanks.

http://hallman.org/bolger/isometrics#Triple-keelSloop

Knowing Bolger, he had no problem with long narrow sailboats, as long as they were designed watertight at extreme angles of heel. My bet is that it has some significant ballast longwise in a very...

I don't know the sail rig, but SA just said that the design calls for some extremely large lee boards, (not implemented yet on that build). It certainly would work with a dipping lug rig. (I only...

Stretching a boat design is a long honored tradition. I understand that SA is planning an article on this boat in the magazine Messing About in Boats, including some of what PCB wrote about it from...

That design has never been published anywhere. Got the info from a recent SA email in the Yahoo Bolger group. I have also learned that it is owned by Humbolt State University, either their...

Here is a new Bolger boat, design 410 "Phouma" 125 feet x 16ft x 3'6", steel, motorsailer, berthed in Eureka CA.

http://hallman.org/bolger/410.jpg

http://hallman.org/bolger/410a.jpg
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You are probably right. Though both boats would be slower than a 16 foot rowboat! <Grin.> Racing a 10 foot sailboat displacement hull sailboat kind of misses the point I think. The issue with a...

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Layden's Ellusion certainly looks more "boat like".

I would bet that Bolger's Nano...

Your criticism seems misplaced. The person who commissioned a 10 foot cruiser is at fault. Given that restraint, it is hard to imagine a more capable cruiser squeezed into that short length.
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Here is another recent isometric rendering I am adding to the listing. Bolger's "Catfish" beach cruiser a 15 ft long cat boat. Plans sold by Payson, and featured in his last book.
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Shady Lady, from Chapter 73 of Boats With An Open Mind. Sorry to hear about the corrosion of a steel hull.

http://hallman.nfshost.com/bolger/ShadyLady.jpg
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http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8014/7704773314_6d4b77fd07_m.jpg

also,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hallman/tags/nano/

This was one of the very last designs.

I guess this thread is a good place for this. I am in the process of "filling in" this design index with 3D renderings of as many of these Bolger designs as I find interesting and have the time to...

Yeah. Phil Bolger designed this boat when he was 24 or 25 years old. (And, his 85th birthday would have been last Monday.)

Thanks, I am glad you found this design index listing to be interesting. If I am not mistaken, Bolger design #606 has two names "Clam Skiff" and "18 ft Work Skiff" and for no good reason I have...

Thanks. Here is an isometric rendering of this 28 foot Bolger sloop published in the 1953 Rudder magazine.

http://gickr.com/results3/anim_4ef3b098-9c5b-a0d4-391c-1976c5fd7e63.gif

I would be very interested in seeing scans of any old Rudder Magazine Bolger articles! If electronic tech is causing grief, old fashion postal mail also works, drop me an email for the street...

1) In my experience, Free!ship works easier when fairing to lines (the linesplan), as opposed to fairing to points (the table of offsets). The key thing to know is that the control points in...

I have used Free!ship version 2.6 a lot.See here for examples http://www.flickr.com/photos/hallman/tags/bolgerboats/ Whether or not Free!ship is the right program for you depends on what you...

Following up on this, after doing some research. PCB's design 'opus' had themes at various times in his career. (Instant boats in the 1980's, for instance.)

The PCB "theme" in the early 1960's...

Bolger's Naval Jelly

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2084/2437543504_d2c3937f54_m.jpg

That is true.

If you need an inboard aircooled motor boat less than 5M in length, neither Micro Trawler nor Bonefish meet that requirement.

Yes, of course. I had forgotten, but am now recalling that as Small Boat Journal fizzled out of publication they dropped the word "Small" from the magazine title for one (or was it two) issue(s). ...

Thanks Woxbox for your helpful input! Yes, I had logged the Small Boat Journal boats incompletely, but I have just fixed it now.

http://hallman.org/bolger/isometrics

Most of the SBJ boats were...

Rather than modify a design (modified designs so often rear up unintended consequences). You might want to check out the Bolger design "Bonefish" which uses an inboard aircooled engine.

Thanks again Tad, I have updated the listing with these.

http://hallman.org/bolger/isometrics

Thanks. Do you have a lead about how to search archives of Rudder? The Google books digitized copies seem to predate Phil Bolger's life. The index at Mystic doesn't show Phil Bolger either
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Tad, thanks a million for this detailed and helpful feedback. These are new to me, (except the SBJ#69 Open Diesel Launch of which I was aware).
I have updated the webpage. Some random comments: I...

Agreed for virtually all iceboats, speed is the thrill.

Phil Bolger, consistent with his personality questioned that premise. He imagined an iceboat where the joy was going slow, cruising...

Agreed, my copy of BWAOM is worn out from repeated readings.

No, probably 75% of the published designs are magazine only, and of those 90% are in MAIB.

Your 'electronic version of MAIB...

I am pretty sure that a Yonder has never been built full scale. Agreed, it looks to be a stupendous design.

Hi Peter, thanks so much. Love your Windermere build!

Yes, your photo is awesome.

See here:

http://hallman.org/bolger/isometrics#Windermere

Hi, checking in here again after an absence.

As some of you might already be aware, (and for those who are not), I have been working on a web page that collects together a master listing of all...

My nomination would go to Tea Party activist Clarence Thomas.

This is a clip and paste of a hate email that has been circulating for years...

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/06/obamas-bumbles/

I believe that Sitka Explorer was never issued as a fully developed design. Though the 'preliminary' design published in the magazine Messing About in Boats, Vol 20 No. 6, looks to my eye to be 99%...

Similar for me. Modeling boats using a computer is a great way to teach oneself about developable surfaces. Another trick in my toolbox is to print the developed surfaces onto scrap card stock, and...

Ummm, have you been drinking the Kool Aid?

The Senate requires 60 votes, and the GOP controlled the 60 votes and aggressively blocked Obama.

And to merge GW Bush with Bill Clinton is laughable....

Obama's core message was very very shrewd. The success of Ronald Reagan was his sunny optimism and pride. The people in the middle political ground want to feel good about our country, and will...

It is a subtle thing, but I notice that you increased the LOA just exactly to the point that you can cut the side panels from two 'Payson joined' sheets of plywood. That kind of frugality appeals to...

I am more comfortable with imperial too, and Free!Ship works perfectly fine with imperial units (as long as you can deal with decimals of a foot, 1" = 0.08', etc.. The only time I use metric is when...

The irony is that this "certain segment of the group" is actively practicing the "politics of resentment" described by the OP. If it wasn't so sad it would be funny.

In case this might be helpful, I took your design and input it into Free!Ship v2.6, with the panels developed. You might want to open this 'fbm' file and see
it.
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I don't use Delftship, but I do use the closely related Free!Ship. In Free!Ship V2.6, by default, layers have the property checkbox for "developable" set off to be "not developable". You access...

One simple trick using Freeship 2.6, for panel layout, is to set the "X grid spacing" and "Y grid spacing" to be 3 inches. Then when you view the developed plates on your computer screen you see a...

Congratulations, good looking boat! I take it that it is intended to cartop her upside down? Also, I notice that the flotation blocks are elevated (with floodable space underneath) so that if the...

I think you meant "right", not "left". It was the "right" conservative 5-4 wing of the Supreme Court that ruled expansive personhood rights for corporations.

Yes, according to a majority the Supreme Court the Constitution says this. The "right" of corporate personhood is founded in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which established equal...