Flush-Deck, flat-top or razed-deck;

Flush-Deck, flat-top or razed-deck; is that really the question.............? firstly, i want to point out here that i have been around, and in-love, with lines of the 60's era Cal-20, 24, 25, and 28 ever sense both they (and fiver) were that age. there was a big fleet of those boats on the Columbia River just across from Vancouver Wa. in an area of the Oregon shore that i considered my stomping ground. a whole moorage full of them in fact, and more all over the area. and there never was a time that i listened in on the fellows talking and didn't hear them calling their boats "Flush-decks". those, my friends, where the first generation "Cal-Flush-Deck" Owners....... now i don't think they had much of a choice as i understand it, in what cabin configuration they chouse. only in what length they wanted it in. but none-the-less, those of us who are now the second generation owners of that fleet, and their thousands of most beautiful sisters where ever they are. i think they, like fiver, fell in love with the lines of this Boat among boats. maybe not everyone was there when they were first set in the water, but i think that every sailor who owns one can most certainly tell anyone who doesn't, where "His" deck meets "His" hull! but don't get me wrong here, because as a boat builder myself of many decades. i have seen tradition go down the head for many new fangled ideas that looked absolutely absence to me. BayLiners that i dear anyone to define a proper sheer on, much-less tell me which way it ot to be going until it actually starts to move. and i am not even going to talk about hunters and bayliner sailboats. or maybe someone out there can define the sheer-line on a modern US sub??? i have seen sailing cats that defy the same. my point is that in modern ship and boat design, the sky is the limit. it's not form fallows function anymore. it's function fallows form. and the boat builders vocabulary simply must fallow suite. have any of you ever heard of a broken sheer? i have. and that is what the Cal-flush-decks have. how about a false sheer? well, they have that too! that is why the nice wide swopy curved line is there to define where the top of a old-fashioned hull would have been. it's so your eye's don't get lost with this "new idea". but on the other hand, these boats are all getting to be in their 40's. so do you all think it's about time to give this new idea a brake and accept these lovely works of modern art for what they are........ fiver, Master of The "BB-54" one of the famous Cal-28 flush-decks out of Sierra-5, Papa Hotel (in days gone by) now hove-too, not 10' south of my front porch; in my Sister Karen's one acre back yard....... (built like a Battleship; sails like a Sub......) ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

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I noticed that even Jensen Marine described the Cal 28 as a "raised" deck in the old advertisement found at this link: http://www.stirlinglaw.com/cal28/cal28article.jpg I am a bit disappointed that no one commented on the photo of my Cal 28 in a drag race with the Cal 40, White Squall. It took me almost an hour to come up with this classic drag race, and not a peep! I see now you all have me listed in your spam filters! It was 100% Cal content, too.

not, me! i think it's way Kool!!!! i just been real busy, Bruce. my Sister has had me runing everywhere. if i get a picture of her out of the water and one of my sailboat trailer emety and hitched to my truck; can you put White Squall on the trailer behind my truck....? we could then use that on the group... fiver ***************************** --- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Stirling" <bruce@...> wrote: > > I noticed that even Jensen Marine described the Cal 28 as a "raised" > deck in the old advertisement found at this link: > > http://www.stirlinglaw.com/cal28/cal28article.jpg > > I am a bit disappointed that no one commented on the photo of my Cal > 28 in a drag race with the Cal 40, White Squall. It took me almost an > hour to come up with this classic drag race, and not a peep! I see > now you all have me listed in your spam filters! It was 100% Cal > content, too. >

Yes, It was spiders! The first sailors and inventors of the first successful heavier than air craft, now, it was recently discovered (this week) a certain species of spider weaves a tight web to capture an air bubble, and submerges with his little air tank, goes to and from it for gulps of air while he makes his fishing forays. Jerry Bruce Stirling <br… [at] stirlinglaw.com> wrote: I noticed that even Jensen Marine described the Cal 28 as a "raised" deck in the old advertisement found at this link: http://www.stirlinglaw.com/cal28/cal28article.jpg I am a bit disappointed that no one commented on the photo of my Cal 28 in a drag race with the Cal 40, White Squall. It took me almost an hour to come up with this classic drag race, and not a peep! I see now you all have me listed in your spam filters! It was 100% Cal content, too.

Whynot get the owner of White Squall to join this list? slickbutfoxbuger wrote: >not, me! > >i think it's way Kool!!!! > >i just been real busy, Bruce. my Sister has had me runing everywhere. >if i get a picture of her out of the water and one of my sailboat >trailer emety and hitched to my truck; can you put White Squall on the >trailer behind my truck....? we could then use that on the group... > > fiver > >***************************** >--- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Stirling" <bruce@...> wrote: > > >>I noticed that even Jensen Marine described the Cal 28 as a "raised" >>deck in the old advertisement found at this link: >> >>http://www.stirlinglaw.com/cal28/cal28article.jpg >> >>I am a bit disappointed that no one commented on the photo of my Cal >>28 in a drag race with the Cal 40, White Squall. It took me almost an >>hour to come up with this classic drag race, and not a peep! I see >>now you all have me listed in your spam filters! It was 100% Cal >>content, too. >> >> >> > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > -- Marsh Wise Webmaster: -reenactor.Net: http://www.reenactor.net/ -Foresthill.us: http://www.foresthill.us/ -Legio IX Hispana Penna: http://www.reenactor.net/units/legio_ix_penna/ - 17. Luftwaffe Feld-Division <http://www.reenactor.net/units/17lwfd/> Assistant Webmaster: -VAQ-33 Squadron site: http://www.reenactor.net/vaq-33/ Proud Member (meaning I can just have fun...) -LEGIO IX HISPANA COH III Penna Chapter: http://www.legio-ix-hispana.org/ Netscape Aim/AOL screen name: Sturmkatze Yahoo Messenger screen name: sturmkatze Alteris renumera duplum de quoquo tibi numeraverunt Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself. ~Mark Twain *Last: Hey Dammit! Have you visited the reenactor.Net FORvMS? If not, WHY NOT? Gett your butt over to: http://www.reenactor.net/forums/index.php right now!

loved, it. noted the relationships you described also. Reggie >From: "Bruce Stirling" <br… [at] stirlinglaw.com> >Reply-To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com >To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com >Subject: [Cal_Boats] Re: Flush-Deck, flat-top or razed-deck; >Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:37:01 -0000 > >I noticed that even Jensen Marine described the Cal 28 as a "raised" >deck in the old advertisement found at this link: > >http://www.stirlinglaw.com/cal28/cal28article.jpg > >I am a bit disappointed that no one commented on the photo of my Cal >28 in a drag race with the Cal 40, White Squall. It took me almost an >hour to come up with this classic drag race, and not a peep! I see >now you all have me listed in your spam filters! It was 100% Cal >content, too. > Can you find the hidden words?� Take a break and play Seekadoo! http://club.live.com/seekadoo.aspx?icid=seek_hotmailtextlink1