Harry,
I have to agree that the pictures of the Zimmerman is a beaut. I am sure
all of us would love to see some interior pictures of your Lobster Boat.
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:58:07 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:55:32 -0400, PocoLoco
wrote:
I posted a URL to what must be a 'sister ship' of the Lobsta Boat.
http://www.boatingabc.com/cgi-bin/ul...1;t=003263;p=0
If I had a boat so nice, I'd be spashing pictures all over the
internet and
inviting everyone I knew to come marvel at it
Is that a Zimmerman?
Beautiful.
Zimmerman is one of the premier "finishers" of made-in-Maine lobster
yacht hulls. The boats are beautiful but all that "posh" on the interior
is heavy. Zimmerman's bulkhead-hull "joints" are uusual, in that the
bulkheads sort of float against the hull, or at least that was the
technique used when I toured the "factory" some years ago.
There's a company in Bristol, RI who makes one-off hull molds for
various manufacturers. A few years ago, they made a 45' sailboat that
had that same technique - it's an interesting concept.
The boat's still floating so I guess it's a good way to do it.
The hulls are quite stout. The wood bulkheads fit into slots glassed to
the inside of the hull, and there is "padding" between the edge of the
bulkhead and the hull. It prevents "print-through" of the wood bulkheads
against the glass hull. This isn't a problem with more traditional
fiberglass manufactured boats, which use glass bulkheads glassed to the
hull. The technique is pretty common on the Chesapeake, where there are
dozens of very small builders turning out some pretty nice boats.
As a point of comparison, the Zimmerman 36 is 4000 to 7000 pounds heavier
than boats with near identical hulls and caps not finished out as "posh,"
and that takes into account that Zimmerman doesn't install a honker-sized
diesel in its hulls.
But...they are gorgeous boats.
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