A Phil Bolger Masterpiece
The owner was painting Mayaca when I visited Pine Island, Florida.
Mayaca is much bigger than Egret. It was impossible to get far enough away from her to get a good photo. She has about 4 1/2 foot headroom and an interior that is divided in half by the centerboard trunk. I’d fix that by eliminating the centerboard and fitting my unique bilge boards. They’re not solid, and by eliminating half their wetted surface and alternating fat foil blades with empty spaces, their lift coefficient more than makes up for their halved area. At their bottom there are massive stainless steel grounding bars. At Mayaca’s size I figure I could get her to sail really well- better than with a centerboard- at about two feet of draft. Naturally she’d have the same rudder I mentioned previously.