Bolero Delivery and Launching

rshowarth · Post by **rshowarth** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:48 pm

Any open-throat block will do, I'd start with Garhauer.

Mike-

Thanks.

Open Throat Block

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cmartin · Post by **cmartin** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:54 am

Excellent, thanks for posting.

Boats like this got me into sailing. Someday.... :)

Figment · Post by **Figment** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:31 am

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A less costly way to make the same thing happen would be to secure the bitter end of the sheet to the car you have in place now with a little loop of spectra.

rshowarth · Post by **rshowarth** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:47 pm

Thanks.

Right now I secure it to the base of the Schaefer Block where it attaches to the car. I had not thought of the loop of Spectra. That should work better than the 1/4 inch sheet attached directly to the car.

Perhaps I will re-rig before I go to the expense of new blocks.

Bluenose · Post by **Bluenose** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:04 pm

A few more photos of Bolero under sail since I know this group love their pictures. Also actual pictures of our two part jib sheets.

My buddy Craig and I had a great fall sail in 5 to 10 kts of wind. Okay it wasn't 5 kts when we left but if came up a bit.

Bluenose · Post by **Bluenose** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:05 am

I keep saying that I am done gushing about Bolero and posting every picture that I get of her but apparently not.

Post by **Tim** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:17 am

There's a masthead-rigged Triton in one of your photos there.

keelbolts · Post by **keelbolts** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:20 am

Holy Cow.

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:51 am

New desktop wallpaper! (Changed from the photo of Bolero at the dock that you posted a few weeks ago.)

Thanks :)

Rachel

Bluenose · Post by **Bluenose** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:55 am

Tim wrote:There's a masthead-rigged Triton in one of your photos there.

Tim,

Good eye. That Triton has been there for the 4 or 5 years that I have been sailing out of Fishermans Bay. I have talked to the owner a number of times. He lives off Island, Conway I think, and owns a piece of waterfront property near his boat. He comes up every year and hauls her and does the bottom but I have never seen her out sailing. It looks like this year, or last, she got some new canvas.

Her mooring is not in a location that I would favor. She has been hit once and also bounced off her mooring concrete anchor during an exceptionally low tied (damaging her rudder).

It looks like, at one point, someone had some grand aspirations for her as she is fitted out with a wind vane. But for now she lives the life of the lonely, but not completely neglected, plastic classic.

Ric in Richmond · Post by **Ric in Richmond** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:18 pm

Bill.....I feel that you should be required to post weekly, if not daily, photos of Bolero.

She is absolutely fantastic and I have enjoyed watching her progress.

Kudus again!!!

Ric

Triton106 · Post by **Triton106** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:46 pm

Tim,

Is that Lackey Sailing logo on the mainsail? Outstanding.

Regards,

Ray

Ric in Richmond · Post by **Ric in Richmond** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:21 am

Looks like she has hit the wooden boat forum!

The responses are all positive...which is rare over there when you are dealing with "frozen snot".

http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=89069

I LOVE frozen snot plastic classics!!! Especially Bolero!!!

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:47 pm

The angles and curves of the coaming and housetop really work with the sweep of the sheer, and the port placement is perfect— someone's got a sharp eye for balance and proportion.

That would be Tim (and Bluenose).

Really fun to read that thread. Jay Greer said "Proper!"

:)

Rachel

Bluenose · Post by **Bluenose** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:50 pm

Ric in Richmond wrote:Looks like she has hit the wooden boat forum!

The responses are all positive...which is rare over there when you are dealing with "frozen snot".

http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=89069

I LOVE frozen snot plastic classics!!! Especially Bolero!!!

Ric,

Thanks for posting the link, I hadn't seen it yet. They were not quite so full of love in the first Woodenboat thread, Turning a Shields sloop (fg) open cockpit into a cuddy-cabin. But Tim's handiwork won them over.

Richincident · Post by **Richincident** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:08 am

Hey Bill!

Every time I see the way you and Tim both saw and executed the potential for creating such an incredible day sailer I am impressed anew! GREAT vision, GREAT boat, great work. That and the daysailing Triton are the Angelina Jolies of boat porn!

Richard

Bluenose wrote:
Ric in Richmond wrote:Looks like she has hit the wooden boat forum!

The responses are all positive...which is rare over there when you are dealing with "frozen snot".

http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=89069

I LOVE frozen snot plastic classics!!! Especially Bolero!!!
Ric,

Thanks for posting the link, I hadn't seen it yet. They were not quite so full of love in the first Woodenboat thread, Turning a Shields sloop (fg) open cockpit into a cuddy-cabin. But Tim's handiwork won them over.