Boat Plans Bolger | 2014 Calendar of Our Designs

Boat Plans Bolger

Our 2014 calendar is now at the printers and we will have the first stocks ready for shipping in a couple of weeks. Get your orders in and we will ship as soon as they come in, well in time for you to use as Christmas gifts or to hang on your wall come January 1st. Order here.

We have a nice selection of photos again this year. Here are the cover photo and a few months as samples of what it contains.

Cover of our 2014 Calendar

January

May

July

September

Thank you to all who have allowed us to use your photos. For other builders who are not featured, we have already started to collect photos for our 2015 calender. This is a good opportunity to show off what you have achieved, so please send them to me by email.

We have changed suppliers this year, in the interests of keeping the price reasonable. The supplier that we used in the past has hiked their prices way up and would have necessitated a considerable increase. With the new supplier we can hold the price at the same level as the past two years.

To see our range of boat designs, please go to http://dixdesign.com/ .

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Boat Plans Stitch And Glue | Whipray hull 2 but really 1 production skiff

Boat Plans Stitch And Glue

This is the first production Whipray hull # 2 built with the side console and the Yamaha that I asked for. Hull # 1 being the one that I built with the rough deck with the first hull out of the mold. This engine had no where near the power for hole shots and speed that the Mercury 25 had. Of all the Mercury engines the 25, 40 and 60 were the best. But! Sheesh could they be a pain in the butt to start at times. I always cringed when doing a test ride with them as it could sometimes take a bit to get one going. I have in my dighys always used Yamaha 15 two strokes which always start on the first pull. By the time I have around 3,000 plus hours on them I give to a friend and get a new one.
In this picture I am poling Rachel around in the new skiff with Flips push pole that has a natural wood crook in it for the foot.
I gave to Chris Petterson owner of HBBWs all the original photos of building the molds and skiff # 1
That was done in St. Augustine Florida under a simple plastic visqueen shed. It would be nice if he posts them some day on his site. More to come.....

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Dinghy Boat Plans | Hogfish Maximus sailing photos

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Being a photo boat taking pictures of a  Roades 41. Same speed both boats.

Off the Canary Islands doing 7 knots 

Finishing the Carriacou single handed regatta. Mid fleet.

Leaving Barbados for Bequia trying to keep up with Grace May a Prout Catamaran. The boat behind was a Tyanna cutter being single handed around the world. Last leg.

Glen Maxwell with the Matt Layden Paradox design that he built called Zoey. Our dinghy on deck is bigger. Glen and I left a few weeks later sailing the Hogfish to the Azores .

Sailing down wind the other day to the Exumas single handed with Bequia the sea dog.

Exumas

Sailing with Lillian at the helm.

Off Royal island on the way home

Rachel posing next to the ultimate shoal draft sailboat in Denmark . All you do its tilt the 12 keel to the side ,drop the rudders and this sled draws less than Hogfish!

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Boat Plans Wood | Photos Of Metal Wastage Caused By Trapped Water

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Here are some photos of what trapped water and moisture will do to a metal hulled boat. This is not to meant sway anyone from buying or owning a metal boat, I own one myself. It is to give all of us a reminder though, that we need to be diligent in maintaining and inspecting our boats. Speaking of inspecting a metal boat, I had a very good comment on the last post from a former client. He has a process that is very impressive when it comes to inspecting a metal boat for purchase. I encourage anyone who is wanting to buy a metal boat or any boat for that matter to do their own close inspection before putting an offer on a boat and hiring a surveyor. I also would advise the seller of a metal boat to hire a surveyor to inspect the boat before listing it. It is important any issues are known about before the boat goes on the market. Too often a person turns down a boat during my inspections. I would much prefer to be part of a happy exchange of a boat then not.

Saltwater was trapped in a keel of an aluminum boat that was filled with foam and lead. The boat got a new redesigned bulb keel.

This is where salt water has dried in a bilge of an aluminum hulled boat.

A view from the exterior of the same boat.

 

This is where water had sat for years on the inside of this steel boat, good news she was made as good as new.

A lot of time these problems are found while the bottom of a boat is sandblasted or a paint blister is ground down for a repair. Which is what happened in the photo below.

So what do we do to make sure we can find these problems?

Refer to the previous post for the answer:

The need of keeping water out of the bilge of a steel boat

and visit more my website for more information about my services.

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Boat Plans Wooden | Shallow water skiff shapes ideas

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Here are some of my old musings of developing skiff shapes to bring to reality. As I described earlier in my blog of how I like to make a half hull of my vision - idea . I do this after I have done all my weight calculations in advance. Shown are a few past ideas in their growth stages. Sorry but I would love to be able to do this all properly but all I have is the iPad that I got for Christmas this year from my daughters. With out this contraption I probably would not take the time to do all this. Right now it is flat calm with lots of light rain about so Im inside with a fan on doing something. The iPad is great as I can do this stuff with a simple inverter on our sailboat as we move about and post it later. No TV time in my life so have extra time to fiddle here.

So look at the wood half hull against the mirror. The sections are glued to a 1/4" piece of wood,without this it would sit flush against the mirror with the thickness of the mirror being the center line. This is how it was done before 3 D programs . It does make you feel like a peeping Tom though as you stretch around trying to see the whole thing. Each section is drawn out from the center line to scale. Here you can calculate how many cubic inches are in each section. I do not have the side views showing which would tell and show you the distance between each section. It would not show up here very well.

What I will do this summer is draw up 3-4 new skiff shapes from past knowledge with all dimensions easy to draw up to full size hull sections. These you will be able to cut out and install on a simple building jig and from there you will be able to plank up in light cedar strips, Baltec balsa core strips or Core Cell brand planking strips. From this you fair and then glass the outside. When fair, flip over,

remove the forms and glass the insides. Then you finish the inside. To build a deck I will explain all the ways it can be done simply later. I will put this here for free. In the mean time anyone planning on building a skiff needs to read up a bit on strip plank boat building. This is the same as building a canoe; just a little more odd shape and it has a transom. I will get a list of books or pamphlets to look up.

In looking at these shapes it is easy to start to see how many ways and directions you could now reshape and go. Ha, it can be daunting if you do not have a weight list and a clue as to what the finished hull will weigh. Here I come back to having the vision, idea, whatever. Details. 

Of course if you are going to start a new company and you want to follow in the foot steps of something that is already well proven and established then all you really have to do is make a facsimile of it as all the thinking has already been done for you. If you do make it better, and at a better price good for you. 

Now with all the shapes here you still have to decide on which side of the half section line you will put your hull thickness. Makes a difference . Take your numbers from the center line out wards and up to the LWL. This is the quickest way. This method shown here has been used for centuries with the creations of some of the most beautiful boats in the world. Go to see the Herreshoff museum in New port RI. He did all his boats this way. There is not a Yankee boat builder up north that does not know this system nor a Carolina one either. The computer today is the way to go though if you have one.

  Another idea; this shows how you can take an existing boat today and measure or take its lines sections. Without knowing its length between perpendiculars you could stretch this boat out to ......

In this shape here I wanted a good sea boat at rest that would not be as they say here too "cranky" .

It has good freeboard and was a good all round skiff. I lowered the spray rail on this a bit in the bow area when built. Today I would change the stern section aft so this is obsolete in my mind.

 You can see the half sections above and the half hull below. 

Cheap 3 - D rendering 

You can see here how Im drawing in a bit of crown. I like crown a lot. It adds tremendous strength over a flat surface. Also you can gain some Disp. But then you have to be careful where its going to direct the water flow. I do not want crown in my skiff decks as it is a pain in the butt to fit the hatches so the will not squeak and lay flush. 

On this sheet you can see the displacement calculation that I wrote down from a simple lines program that I found on the Internet at the time. I put in all my half section numbers and in a second it spit out all these numbers. I had already done it my old way and every thing was pretty close. In the upper left corner you can see the displacement numbers for three different water lines. This you have to think about a lot as the guys, people that will be in the boat, are most likely going to weigh over 200 lbs.

The rest of the numbers there are just adding up Disp. If I posted all my calculation sheets it would be so boring. But I keep em for reference. This is a heavy skiff at close to 2,000 lbs with all the sports in it.

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Boat Plans Australia | More flats boat photos from 1982 86

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You can click on the photos to make them full size.

These boats were built in the Florida Keys in Islamorada , and Key largo.

Bert Sherbs 17 Mako Remake

Berts boat. Boy did they make ugly towers back then.

 Mako remake plug ,waiting for mold gelcoat to cure befor laminating.

Mako remake at Bayside Inn which is now the Bass Pro extravaganza in Islamorada. 

Carl Navarreas skiff in my new shop Back Bay Boats in Tavenier Key largo 1985.

Flipping over Hal Chittums Mako experimental after painting. You can see the stringers printing tru the bottom because they are made of wood.

See the boat really was called the Mako experimental.

Glassing in the boxes, look at how narrow the hatch channels were. They had 1/4 in copper tubbing for draining so a real nightmare.

Stern view of Hals skiff, you can see all the glassed over plywood.

Glassing in the sheer overhang with more plywood. This boat weighed a ton and I know that Hal even at that time in his life at 31 knew that if there was a better way he wanted to be part of it.

Inside shot of the cored Sea Craft I built for Dick Negley. This was another boat where I bought a finished boat on a trailer for 800.00 dollars and gutted the boat down to the bare skin. Dick had a lot of good ideas for this boat which was a great project and a great guy to work for. 

Dicks Sea Craft had a 100 gallon fuel tank under the console which could all be removed , the boat had three live wells, a 235 Johnson on the stern with a jack plate toe kick and a full transom across the stern. Because we saved so much weight with the build it could carry a lot of stuff , go fast and shallow for the places he fished in Texas and the Gulf. It is till owned by his friend Dev. This is 1983, the two Mako remakes and this skiff took Lawanda and I 12 months to finish at a set price and time frame.

Bow of Sea Craft

Dick Neglys scooter boat being planked up

 Hull skin on temporary framing ready for outer skin.

My little wedge tunnel for the 200 Merc that was fitted with a jet drive.

Pretty simple boat.

Inside showing stringers going in with Uni S- glass. Any boat that has Kevlar on the inside is wasting your money. E - glass done right will do just great, s- glass is only a little less stiffer than Carbon but a whole lot less in cost. Carbon is great in certain areas and if you have deep pockets then its the go to material for certain projects. All these boats were built using Dion resin which is a polyester and all these boats are still going strong.

Lawanda next to the first half of the skin coat using Kevlar on the out side. The day that Dick first launched the boat he ran over a steel pipe sticking out of the bottom and all you could see was a slight scratch.

Testing the bottom 

Flipped over working on the insides. I will post pictures of this boat fishing when I find the photos.

Our shop Back Bay Boats next to the Tavernier Health Dept. It is an auto body shop now.

Before getting into flats boats I built sailboats, this a boat for Lawanda and I being built next to the Sea Lark building which is now Bass world. 1982

Lawanda and I going out in our Bahamian catboat to set some Lobster habitats . We ate a lot of lobster back then as they were everywhere. This is 1982

We all raced in the afternoons off what is now the Lorrilie resturant. No one was there in 1982. I built these three cats.

Myself and Dave Calvert at Bayside Inn with my new  sailboat hull which I have just built and am moving here to fishing building. Dave was a sailmaker there and went on to help Steve Fosset break the North Atlantic crossing record on Playstation. Little did we know the fun we were going to have down the road from this day in 1980.

One of many little dorys I would build in an evening. 

A 2 part folding row boat I built in an attic in the Bahamas. The boat had to fit through the window.

 I do not know if World Wide Sportsmen tore these down at their place in Islamorada. This was one of many projects that Ray Dye had me do while I worked there .

 So a few more shots from the past. Sure wish I still had the energy I had then.
More to come.

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