I was contacted by the New York Times for permission to use a photo of our Bolger Brick in Phil's obituary. Here is a link to the article. Sad news, but Phil...
Seems to me that the "Bolger Boats Built" database for this group is the best cyber flotilla compilation. I updated it for the eight designs I've completed. ...
In western Oregon Micro Tortoise June Bug currently building the Brick that became a Duck MylesJ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
There are boats whose sheer beauty is enough to justify their existence. There are boats so ugly they pass over into the cute category. There are boats so...
... Wonderful photos John! Thanks for posting them. It looks like Bob Larkin was ailing with a one-piece mast and not the sliding gunter. Did he give up on the...
I think Phills intent was to make boat building so anyone could do it. There in not needing to be perfect and saying so. Many materials could be used and end...
As mentioned previously, we launched the stretched Gypsy on Memorial Day last week. The boat was stretched 25% over the original design by lofting the...
Hi John, ... Nice! I espcially like BWII and Pelican, but those tugs are nice, and I could see many a day fishing and loafing on that Redwing 18. Jon...
... Singlehanded Schooner Gloucester Light Dory Tortoise ...and an awful lot of dreaming about the Insolent 60, which I suppose isn't going to happen now. -- ...
Hello; Oh dear . . . prayers and condolences to you Suzanne and to his many, many, friends. One man may be gone, but yet his love and passion carry on in...
Susan Davis, sorry for the shock. But I-60 is by no means 'dead'. Once I've re-establish economic viability of PB&F after progressive disintegration of...
Susanne, As an Archivist/Librarian I know that with such large tasks archives often rely on voluntary labor. You'll need to supervise, but maybe when you are...
Mike: Boats Built: Yellow Leaf, Wisp, Wish II. Scale contruction models of: Triple Keel Sloop, Off shore Leeboarded, Romp and Palo de Agua. Jim Caldwell...
Gary in North Florida: Tortoise, Zephyr, Design #459 Single Handed Ocean Racer (30') with dipping/balanced lug, v-bottom catboat "Cartoon 40" lengthened 25...
Bruce, Katherine, Hugo and Dominic Tyson send deepest sympathies to Suzanne on the passing of Phil. We have been lucky to have a father who is probably the...
Has the AS19 every appeared in any of the Bolger books? I can find the AS29 in "Boats with an Open Mind". I find something fitting the description of the...
I don't think so. It's not in BWAOM and was designed after his first four design books. I don't think there's a cartoon of it in 103 Small Boat Rigs. My...
I just looked in the table of contents of Different Boats, Folding Schooner, Small Boats and 30-Odd Boats and didn't see it. It is written up in MAIB V17 N15...
Prior to my current build of the Workskiff, Phil suggested the AS 19 as a possible build for a decent daysailor with simple accomodations and better...
Not as yet. There's one two part "Bolger on Design" MAIB article from about 9(?) years ago featuring the boat built by Ed Williams and then owned by Mike...
Hi all, I met a gentleman named Jay Kammerzell at Sucia Island in 2005 who sailed there in a Bolger Micro. As I recall, he was from Everett, Washington. I'm...
... There is a write-up somewhere, but perhaps not in a book. I remember that there was a sketch showing the boat decorated to a preposterous degree, as if a...
Hey Graeme! I finally relocated the plans and they will be in the mail shortly. What happened was I wanted to get a stronger envelope to mail them in (tyvek of...
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