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Hi Brent,
Do you have a Micro?, if so I would love to hear more.
Thanks to everyone for advice and comments. I think the best advice was to
buy something cheap and plastic and go sailing straight away, then decide
whether I want to build
Just in case any one was wondering I would not venture out in the
conditions I mentioned, it' s just that I would like that amount of reserve
capability, on say a six hour passage it is difficult to know what to
expect at the end of it even with modern weather forecasting. As for the
tides, as I am sure everyone who sails in tidal waters knows, the trick is
to use the tide tables and time your sail so that you and the tide want to
go in the same direction.<s>.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brent and Laura Wilson [SMTP:backforty2@lisco.com]
Sent: Fri 07 Jan 00 22:31
To: Brianv
Subject: Re: Bolger Micro
Brian,
If you haven't already, check out the Micro page at
www.boatdesign.com I am a micro as well. My only concern was how to make
such a heavy boat un-sinkable.
Brent Wilson
P-15 #657
Lockridge, IA USA
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> From: Brianv <Brianv@itl.net>
> To: wwpotter@tscnet.com
> Subject: Bolger Micro
> Date: Thursday, January 06, 2000 4:21 PM
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
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> I am in my 20th year of saying "this year I am going to buy a boat"
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> Part of the day dream is that I will build it myself (It will probably
> never happen but dreams are fun). The current thought process is building
a
> Bolger Micro, I looked at them 3 years ago and thought I could not own a
> boat so ugly, at a second look ugliness had turned to "characterful", so
I
> am now tempted.
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> It is a bloody cheek I know, to ask a Potter community of their view of
> other small boats but, I have noted the courtesy offered to other
> non-Potter owners so would be grateful for any views that the community
> may have on the Micro?.
>
> My sailing will be done in Jersey (that is Old not New - the Channel
Island
> in the U.K.) here we have tides with a 40 ft range and tide flows of up
to
> 8 knots, I am not looking for something for serious off-shore cruising
but
> would want to do occasional 20 mile trips to Guernsey or France and would
> like a boat that is not going to cause me to much fear in say force 5-6
> with 8-10 foot swell.
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>
> Brian Vickers
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> Jersey Channel Islands
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