Check out this bow.

http://www.bergenships.com/Bourbon%20Orca.html

Perhaps Roger Long knows the proper name of this type of bow.
(inverted maybe)

There use to be a fleet of boats in the gulf that had the same type
set-up, it was a company called Botruck.

I wonder if it's a better ride? I heard the botrucks slammed pretty
hard, but they did not have as narrow an entry.

Anyone ever see a sailboat with this type of bow?
Rec cruiser with one?

Joe

Used to be an old sailboat with this basic type of bow in Hyannis,
Ma.....name "Moby Dick"....if memory serves it was the first winner of
the infamous "FAGAWI" race when it is just a wild freeforallletshavefun,
started by Barney Baxter and a few other notables of Baxter's Boathouse
Club back in the early 70's.




"Joe" wrote in news:1176768302.874303.80890
@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

Check out this bow.

http://www.bergenships.com/Bourbon%20Orca.html

Perhaps Roger Long knows the proper name of this type of bow.
(inverted maybe)

There use to be a fleet of boats in the gulf that had the same type
set-up, it was a company called Botruck.

I wonder if it's a better ride? I heard the botrucks slammed pretty
hard, but they did not have as narrow an entry.

Anyone ever see a sailboat with this type of bow?
Rec cruiser with one?

Joe

Remember the Maine?

It is a type of wave piercing bow.

http://bourbon-online.com/Bourbon-Orca,459

http://www.wartsila.com/Wartsila/glo...e_ordinary.pdf

Joe wrote:
Check out this bow.

http://www.bergenships.com/Bourbon%20Orca.html

Perhaps Roger Long knows the proper name of this type of bow.
(inverted maybe)

There use to be a fleet of boats in the gulf that had the same type
set-up, it was a company called Botruck.

I wonder if it's a better ride? I heard the botrucks slammed pretty
hard, but they did not have as narrow an entry.

Anyone ever see a sailboat with this type of bow?
Rec cruiser with one?

Joe

really, really ugly....

On Apr 16, 9:00 pm, "Bob Crantz" wrote:
Remember the Maine?

It is a type of wave piercing bow.

http://bourbon-online.com/Bourbon-Orca,459

http://www.wartsila.com/Wartsila/glo...s/twentyfour7/...

Thanks for the link, I was right on the inverted bow name.
They do alot of touting new innovations but the only true new tech is
the stern roller assembly that rotates to a vertical position, thats a
great feature, nothing worse than a stubborn anchor hooking the
roller. Everything else is old tech, like diesel electric, the bow,
the traveling cranes ect. ect. Still IMO it's a cool boat.

Joe

On Apr 16, 9:29 pm, katy wrote:
Joe wrote:
Check out this bow.

http://www.bergenships.com/Bourbon%20Orca.html

Perhaps Roger Long knows the proper name of this type of bow.
(inverted maybe)

There use to be a fleet of boats in the gulf that had the same type
set-up, it was a company called Botruck.

I wonder if it's a better ride? I heard the botrucks slammed pretty
hard, but they did not have as narrow an entry.

Anyone ever see a sailboat with this type of bow?
Rec cruiser with one?

Joe

really, really ugly....- Hide quoted text -

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I think it's very attractive, function dictating form.

Now the older botrucks were the ugliest boat afloat, I imagine they
are all gone now, as most were buildt in the 1950's. They had a normal
bottom but everything above the waterline was inverted, I was told
that in mild seas they rode well, but when in large seas they pounded
so hard it would knock your teeth out slamming on the dash. The Orca
looks like a canoe bow.

Joe

Joe wrote:
On Apr 16, 9:29 pm, katy wrote:

Joe wrote:

Check out this bow.

http://www.bergenships.com/Bourbon%20Orca.html

Perhaps Roger Long knows the proper name of this type of bow.
(inverted maybe)

There use to be a fleet of boats in the gulf that had the same type
set-up, it was a company called Botruck.

I wonder if it's a better ride? I heard the botrucks slammed pretty
hard, but they did not have as narrow an entry.

Anyone ever see a sailboat with this type of bow?
Rec cruiser with one?

Joe

really, really ugly....- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


I think it's very attractive, function dictating form.

Now the older botrucks were the ugliest boat afloat, I imagine they
are all gone now, as most were buildt in the 1950's. They had a normal
bottom but everything above the waterline was inverted, I was told
that in mild seas they rode well, but when in large seas they pounded
so hard it would knock your teeth out slamming on the dash. The Orca
looks like a canoe bow.

Joe

still ugly...

On Apr 16, 9:47 pm, katy wrote:
Joe wrote:
On Apr 16, 9:29 pm, katy wrote:

Joe wrote:

Check out this bow.

http://www.bergenships.com/Bourbon%20Orca.html

Perhaps Roger Long knows the proper name of this type of bow.
(inverted maybe)

There use to be a fleet of boats in the gulf that had the same type
set-up, it was a company called Botruck.

I wonder if it's a better ride? I heard the botrucks slammed pretty
hard, but they did not have as narrow an entry.

Anyone ever see a sailboat with this type of bow?
Rec cruiser with one?

Joe

really, really ugly....- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I think it's very attractive, function dictating form.

Now the older botrucks were the ugliest boat afloat, I imagine they
are all gone now, as most were buildt in the 1950's. They had a normal
bottom but everything above the waterline was inverted, I was told
that in mild seas they rode well, but when in large seas they pounded
so hard it would knock your teeth out slamming on the dash. The Orca
looks like a canoe bow.

Joe

still ugly...- Hide quoted text -

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is not

Joe wrote:
On Apr 16, 9:47 pm, katy wrote:

Joe wrote:

On Apr 16, 9:29 pm, katy wrote:

Joe wrote:

Check out this bow.

http://www.bergenships.com/Bourbon%20Orca.html

Perhaps Roger Long knows the proper name of this type of bow.
(inverted maybe)

There use to be a fleet of boats in the gulf that had the same type
set-up, it was a company called Botruck.

I wonder if it's a better ride? I heard the botrucks slammed pretty
hard, but they did not have as narrow an entry.

Anyone ever see a sailboat with this type of bow?
Rec cruiser with one?

Joe

really, really ugly....- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I think it's very attractive, function dictating form.

Now the older botrucks were the ugliest boat afloat, I imagine they
are all gone now, as most were buildt in the 1950's. They had a normal
bottom but everything above the waterline was inverted, I was told
that in mild seas they rode well, but when in large seas they pounded
so hard it would knock your teeth out slamming on the dash. The Orca
looks like a canoe bow.

Joe

still ugly...- Hide quoted text -

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is not

tis too

On 2007-04-16 23:33:25 -0400, katy said:

still ugly...
is not
tis too

I'll add my UGLY vote.

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