The navigator© wrote:

C'mon Doug!

A bolger micro is not a "sea worthy" craft. It is fine for pottering
about on fine days or on ishore waters. In my opinion it would be lethal
in a gale in unprotected water

Well, your opinion (in this case) goes against established fact, since they handle
rough weather as nicely as anything twice their displacement. Some of them have made
short passages.


.... having a very low angle of vanishing
stability.

I bet anything you care to name that they have a higher LPOS that anything else in
their size range.


If you want a salty boat look for something along the lines
of a Cornish crabber or Tamarisk (if you can find/build the latter you
will have a gem).

Don't know what a Tamarisk is, but the Micro has a higher LPOS than the Cornish
Crabber and will make ground to weather in conditions that will have the Crabber
scudding off to leeward. The Micro is not "salty looking" in fact it's quite
unconventional. But it is very practical and sails a lot better than one might think,
certainly better than a big yacht scaled down to the same size.

I rather like the Cornish Crabber and if we'd seen them before getting the Hunter 19
we might have had one of those instead, but I doubt we'd have been as happy with it.
They are indeed salty looking and they are fairly practical to trailer, but woefully
slow and not at all as roomy or comfy as our little boat.

Come to think of it, we've sailed the Hunter 19 thru weather that had 35 foot crab
crushers huddling at the dock. I guess there's more to it than meets the eye (although
I'm not making any claims about it's LPOS).

Fresh Breezes- Doug King