tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10247592132909267242024-03-05T20:04:56.120-08:00Bieker BoatsErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13478580459201630902noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024759213290926724.post-44689287373957671912014-09-22T18:01:00.000-07:002014-09-22T18:02:10.256-07:00Another PT Skiff launchedAnother of our PT Skiff designs comes out of the shop, this one from Australia. Built from Russell and Ashlyn Brown's kit, which can be found here: <a href="http://www.ptwatercraft.com/" target="_blank">PT Watercraft</a>. A very tidy piece of workmanship.<br />
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Introducing the B53 high-performance cruising cat, just beginning construction at Gold Coast Yachts in the US Virgin Islands for a veteran Seattle sailing couple. More details to follow in coming days.<br />
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Overall Length 16.33 m <br />
Waterline Length (heeled) 16.17 m <br />
Beam Overall 8.0 m <br />
Draft 3.0 m max, 0.4 m min <br />
Bridgedeck Clearance 0.96 m upright, 0.78 m heeled <br />
Displacement (light ship) 6,162 kg <br />
Mast Height abv Water 23.0 m <br />
Mast Length 20.6 m <br />
Boom Length 7.4 m <br />
Mainsail Area 106 sqm <br />
Solent Area 46 sqm <br />
Assym Spin Area 197 sqm <br />
Code 0 Area 105 sqm <br />
Max Righting Moment 20.5 mt <br />
Propulsion (2) Yanmar 3YM30-SD20 <br />
Diesel Fuel 150 L per side <br />
Potable Water 250 L per side <br />
Sewage 80 L per sideErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13478580459201630902noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024759213290926724.post-57776717488413999352014-05-26T09:22:00.000-07:002014-05-26T09:22:10.634-07:00<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Longboard (a Riptide 35 MkII) and Terremoto (a Riptide 35 MkI) placed 1st and 2nd in the PHRF division of this years Swiftsure Classic </span><a href="http://www.swiftsure.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.swiftsure.org/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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We just received a nice note from TJ Durnham, the current owner of Rocket Science. Rocket science is the first keel boat that I designed (back in 1998). She is a long, lean and lightweight performance cruiser with hard chines and twin rudders. After 16 years she still looks cutting edge.<br />
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Rocket Science is in the midst of a trip from the West Coast of the US to Europe. Here is an excerpt from TJ's latest note:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hi Paul, we haven't been in touch for a while. Here's a
shot of Rocket Science anchored off of Yansaladup island in the San Blas last
month. I thought you might like to see what she's up to.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We LOVE this
boat! We sailed direct from the San Blas to Bimini in just over 6 days. That's
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">220 miles a day, just the two of us with the working
sails- boat on autopilot the whole time, rarely paying much attention to sail
trim, just relaxing and reaching at 10 knots in about 12TWS most of the time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Just awesome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We've got the
boat in Charleston now, and we will spend this year on the East Coast, heading
for Norway next summer. We'll keep in touch from time to time. I hope your AC
prep is coming along ok.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Paul Biekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11487205665351250611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024759213290926724.post-39568878694823186842014-05-18T16:52:00.000-07:002014-05-18T16:52:00.237-07:0026 ft Power Cat LaunchGordy and Judy Cole launched their 26 foot power cat <i>Slightly Dangerous </i>today in Seattle. She is named after a WWII P-38 Lightning and sports graphics to match. They did a beautiful job on the build and finish.<br />
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<i>Slightly Dangerous </i>is not a kit boat really, but all the plywood and foam parts were NC cut for easy assembly. The hulls are 9 and 6mm Okoume ply, finished off at the bow with a foam crash-box. The deck is 3" blue foam with 4mm ply skins and the house is 6mm.<br />
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It will be really interesting to hear about their first season living with the boat.<br />
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A worthy final resting place for the 33rd America's Cup winner. Bieker Boats designed and engineered the support system and rigging for displaying the USA 17 Trimaran at Oracle headquarters.Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13478580459201630902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024759213290926724.post-62658761745338542402014-03-10T11:54:00.001-07:002014-03-10T11:55:29.088-07:00Riptide 765 for sale!<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We designed Helter Skelter in</span> 2003 to the New Zealand sportboat rule for yachtsman Phil Jameson. Phil built the boat to a high standard using vacuum bagged carbon/epoxy laminates. Helter Skelter has pretty much been the boat to beat in the New Zealand sportboat class ever since. With her easy lines and well balanced rig/appendage package the 765 is fun, quick and easy to handle over a broad range of conditions. She recently won the sportboat division at the Bay of Islands race week. </div>
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The link to Helter on our website is here: <a href="http://www.biekerboats.com/Bieker_Boats/Bieker_765.html" target="_blank">Bieker 765</a>.</div>
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We have designed a new sportboat for Phil and he needs to sell Helter in order to finance the final stage of the new boats build. A link to that boat is here: <a href="http://www.biekerboats.com/Bieker_Boats/Jameson_650.html" target="_blank">Jameson 650</a></div>
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Enquiries about the boat can be addressed to Phil at this address: <a href="mailto:bloodsie@gmail.com" target="_blank">Phil Jameson</a></div>
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Wild Oats XI successfully repeated her 2012 Sydney Hobart Line Honors performance in this years edition of the race against a formidable group of contenders. Wild Oats XI was sporting the Bieker engineered daggerfoils, forward daggerboard and ballast bulb fins from last year as well as a new Bieker Engineered side foil. Wild Oats XI is now a veritable swiss army knife of appendage options but this package allows her to adapt to a broad range of sailing conditions - a crucial capability in this years race.</div>
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It has been a long gestation process, but we have finally finished the majority of the design and lofting work for the Jester class proa. Attached is the Sailplan and Arrangements for the boat. We also have the construction drawings for the Hull, Ama and Beams completed. The foil and composite part drawings will be done soon.<br />
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Paul Biekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11487205665351250611noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024759213290926724.post-2747175663492686882013-12-20T08:50:00.002-08:002013-12-20T08:51:34.617-08:00Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Bieker Boats!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It took a while but we have found time to carefully work through the lofting of the new proa. The picture above shows the 3D solid model of the lofted boat. This includes details such as puzzle jointed butt joints between parts (rather than scarffs) and tabs on the frames with matching slots in the hull shells to help make the boat self-jigging. The following image shows the nested parts:<br />
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The total nested materials are: (15) sheets 6mm ply, (11) sheets 9mm ply, (10) sheets 1/2" 80kg/cubic m cross-linked PVC foam, (2) sheets 1/4" foam, (1) sheet 1" foam, mdf sheets for mold frames and some carbon cplate.<br />
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The appendages (daggerboard and rudders) have also been engineered and partially lofted. Now we are on to producing the construction drawings for the boat!Paul Biekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11487205665351250611noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024759213290926724.post-40053241711971761072013-09-27T13:04:00.001-07:002013-10-01T12:02:27.988-07:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was an epic battle on San Francisco Bay - ending in an eight race Oracle Team USA winning streak to win the Cup after being down 8-1 in a first to 9 event. It was a hard won regatta - both on the water and in the shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The experience of being in a team that "gutted" its way through from almost sure failure to success was a great learning experience. The Team </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">improved the</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">speed of the boat enough to achieve dominance through changes in sailing technique, wing trim, and hull/appendage modifications. It is a lesson in the strengths of a diverse team that stays loose and is willing to make changes and take risks. The AC72 foils that we engineered for Oracle Team USA are the most highly stressed parts that Bieker Boats has designed.</span><br />
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<br />Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13478580459201630902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024759213290926724.post-69777015982788717032013-04-05T10:44:00.001-07:002013-04-05T10:44:56.264-07:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an atypical repeat of sailing conditions, this years Southern Straits Classic out of Vancouver British Columbia was a similar race to last years event, with predominately light air for the first half of the race and moderate wind for the second half. It was the first race for the new Riptide 35 and 41 designs launched earlier this Spring. Both boats showed great speed on the race course, easily pacing with much larger boats. In the end both boats won their classes with the 35 taking 1st overall on corrected time and the 41 taking 3rd overall on corrected time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Riptide 41 "Blue" had a successful initial sea trial this weekend, easily hitting 22.8 kts on her first spinnaker reach. No breakages, perfect balance, rock solid steering......a good day on the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boatbuilders Jim Betts (right) and Geoff Thilo (left) completing a few last tasks before sailing. The cassette style twin rudders allow the rudder area to be adjusted and the windward rudder to be lifted to reduce wetted surface.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An effort has been made to combine a powerful hull shape with low wetted surface</span></div>
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Rig details for the Shilshole 27 that is under construction across the Sound in Poulsbo are coming along. We've worked out the running back arrangement and designed the composite shroud chainplates. You can also see the pop-top in action in this view. See the <a href="http://shilshole27.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Shilshole 27 build blog here.</a><br />
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The new Riptide 41 left James Betts Enterprises and was delivered to Cap Sante Marine for bottom painting. keel installation, and the stepping of her Southern Spars rig (with carbon standing rigging). We are excited to get her in the water!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After 3.5 months of hard work following their crash and burn on the Bay, Oracle Team USA is back on the water with their AC72. USA 17 is shown here sporting a new Bieker engineered daggerfoil (supporting the boat in this photo). AC72s present the biggest structural design challenges in the sailing world and Bieker Boats is proud and excited to be working the edge in this class.....</span>Paul Biekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11487205665351250611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024759213290926724.post-27148917686271657602013-02-06T09:13:00.000-08:002013-02-06T09:14:16.638-08:00Here are a few pictures of <i>Longboard</i>, Peter Salusbury's new Riptide 35 MKII under sail. We hope to have more soon.<br />
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<br />Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13478580459201630902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024759213290926724.post-35530182713517668102013-01-04T09:18:00.001-08:002013-01-04T09:18:23.326-08:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The new Riptide 41 Approaches Completion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Riptide 41 waterballasted racer is approaching completion at Jim Betts Enterprises in Anacortes Washington. Target launch is in late February.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations to Wild Oats XI on their 2012 Sydney Hobart triple crown win!</span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bieker Boats is proud to have done the structural engineering and detail design of the asymmetrical daggerboard and centerline light air daggerboard used for the race. These survived the strenuous offshore conditions, including a high force impact to one of the daggerboards. In addition, Bieker Boats conceived the concept and supervised the engineering study of fins mounted to the tail of Wild Oats' bulb to prevent keel flutter at the top end of the yachts speed range.</span></div>
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Paul Biekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11487205665351250611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024759213290926724.post-65654277157683355052012-11-26T16:30:00.002-08:002012-11-26T16:30:52.569-08:0032 foot proa<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul is having fun designing a 32 foot offshore proa with long time proapist Russell Brown. It is designed for ease of construction using mostly plywood and constant camber foam cored panels (shown in green). See the attached pics of the preliminary design:</span><br />
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<br />Paul Biekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11487205665351250611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024759213290926724.post-980321168471408952012-11-16T12:13:00.001-08:002012-11-16T12:13:30.833-08:00Retracting Drive UnitThe retracting drive unit in the 35 MKII is a little different from others that have been built. Where others have employed single or multiple constant-velocity joints to keep the angular velocity constant, we can use a simple universal or Cardan type joint. This works because the tail shaft is in alignment with the stub shaft coming from the gear when the unit is deployed. The universal joint also functions as the hinge point for the strut.<br />
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<br />Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13478580459201630902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024759213290926724.post-48270921381397981672012-11-05T16:48:00.000-08:002012-11-05T16:50:41.735-08:00Riptide 35 MkII Launch DayThe new Riptide 35 MkII <i>Longboard</i> hit the water for the first time today in Anacortes. It was a beautiful November day, the boat trimmed well, and the retracting drive unit we designed for the boat performed better than our expectations (9 knots with an 18 HP engine and zero vibration). Thanks and congratulations go to new owners Peter & Mary Salusbury and Jim Betts Enterprises for their hard work and dedication.<br />
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