Bart Senior wrote:
A short walk from my boat is the schooner Dolphin, one of nine
schooners build by the Nazis to transport missiles to Peenemude.

It has the biggest prop I've seen on a sailing yacht. Lots of pictures
of the refit.

http://www.schoonerdolphin.com/

http://www.space.edu/projects/book/chapter8.html

Very cool links, thanks Bart! The North Sea trawlers were tough boats
indeed. It's odd to think of the connection to the V-2 and Werner Von
Braun, this boat was a distant contributor to the Apollo moon shots.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

"Bart Senior" wrote in message . net...
A short walk from my boat is the schooner Dolphin, one of nine
schooners build by the Nazis to transport missiles to Peenemude.

It has the biggest prop I've seen on a sailing yacht. Lots of pictures
of the refit.


Good reason the prop was so big Bart. It was buildt to haul cargo in
heavy sea's at a reliable pace . And when buildt it was not a sailing
yacht at all. Great history of that boat. I wonder if its an early
model of Oak Planking or the latter with pine.

It would be nice to get boat number 10-20 with the bugs shook out and
still using quality materials. Those nazi's had some nice equipment
during the start of WWII. Have you seen their bravery medals from the
later part of the war? Made of bakelite plastic. Early one's were made
of Sterling Silver.

Now I could understand if Kerry threw plastic cheapo medals over the
fence, but bronze and silver stars.......what a dick.

Joe







http://www.schoonerdolphin.com/

http://www.space.edu/projects/book/chapter8.html

Bart Senior


Martin Baxter wrote in message
...
Bobsprit wrote:

I have no doubt, being the serious sailor, that Doug has a use for this
great
deal!

Let me know, Doug.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...egory=26456&it
em=2475487934


RB

"O bids", I guess they are not in particularly great demand. They'd look
good on my living room wall, but your ad says they have to be picked up in
Queens, oh well.

Cheers
Marty

Joe wrote

"Bart Senior" wrote

A short walk from my boat is the schooner Dolphin, one of nine
schooners build by the Nazis to transport missiles to Peenemude.

yacht at all. Great history of that boat. I wonder if its an early
model of Oak Planking or the latter with pine.

3" Long Leaf Yellow Pine planking, custom milled for Dolphin by
New England Naval Timbers.

I've read that big slow moving props are more efficient that smaller
faster turning props. I imagine the Dolphin will be able to motor
well for it's size. Still, with that much wetted surface and gross
tonnage, I bet it burns some fuel under power.

They cut out four big sections of the shrink wrap today on
Dolphin so I guess they are starting work on her again. Pretty
lame of them to miss out on the ideal cool work weather we
have had. Perhaps they are running into financial problems.
A boat this size must cost $5000 for winter dry storage. I figure
it costs about $780 a month just to sit there--not to mention
repair work and materials. They are trying to sell shares in the
boat at $100,000 for 1/10 share. I don't think there are many
takers.

Bart Senior

Bart Senior wrote:
3" Long Leaf Yellow Pine planking, custom milled for Dolphin by
New England Naval Timbers.


I bet that was not easy to bend to shape.

I've read that big slow moving props are more efficient that smaller
faster turning props.

Yes, that is definitely the case. It's why big ships all have large,
slow turning props. Naval ships, for example, usually hit WOT around 200
RPM... the reduction gears are the most expensive part of the power plant.


... Perhaps they are running into financial problems.
A boat this size must cost $5000 for winter dry storage. I figure
it costs about $780 a month just to sit there--not to mention
repair work and materials. They are trying to sell shares in the
boat at $100,000 for 1/10 share. I don't think there are many
takers.

Might be fun, depending on what you could do with your share. I bet they
wouldn't let a 1/10th share owner actually take the boat out
independently for 1/10th of her season though.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

He would also want another couple of nice big smelly, noisy engines. Can
you find him one of those too?

Cheers

Bobsprit wrote:

I have no doubt, being the serious sailor, that Doug has a use for this great
deal!

Let me know, Doug.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...egory=26456&it
em=2475487934


RB