Re: [bolger] Bolger boats pay dividends
Wonderful, I do believe you've explained why I
build!
Jeff
----- Original Message -----From:garth@...Sent:Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:26 AMSubject:[bolger] Bolger boats pay dividendsThe recent thread on the economics of home-built vs. factory-built
inspires me to tell you how building boats pays dividends. After
building a Windsprint, a Michalak Toto, and a Gypsy in the last two
years, I found my garage was full of scraps of wood and plywood, and
two extra sheets of 1/4" plywood. Not to mention odd-lots of extra
glue, epoxy, fiberglass tape, nails, screws, primer, etc. So when I
banged together my Michalak Piragua this spring, it was FREE! Or, at
least it felt free. I know I did pay for all that stuff once upon a
time -- but you get my drift. I took a pile of scrap and turned it
into a boat. It's a magical feeling. I only paid for one can of
exterior latex house paint ($9) and some 1/4" rope ($10). Knowing how
to build boats just gives you a feeling of self-sufficiency in this
crazy world. We can reverse the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and
extract order (and beauty) from chaos.
In related news, I went to Southampton NY this weekend to visit my
friend Bill, who was the recipient of my first boat, the Windsprint,
as a wedding present last year. We took it out on Mecox Bay, a lovely
body of water several miles across with many little inlets and creeks
-- and, we found, most of it only a foot deep or less at low tide. We
picked up the bilgeboard and let the kick-up rudder kick up as much
as it needed -- and we ghosted along in light breezes, in water so
shallow that if we passed over a clam shell on the bottom we heard it
scrape the skids. It mattered how we trimmed the boat side to side --
an extra inch of heel would scrape bottom, so we gingerly balanced
the hull and marveled at the sea life -- horseshoe crabs in arm's
reach, crabs and clamshells, blooms of seaweed and algae, mussel
beds, all right at our fingertips. It lasted for over an hour -- just
coasting gently, silently along, making one foot of leeway for every
two feet of headway, wondering when we'd ever find the channel again
-- but who cares because it's all so beautiful. A real Bolger boat
moment.
So -- Bolger boats pay dividends. One investment of time and a few
bucks -- and you get a lifetime of pleasure and satisfaction -- and
the occasional free boat.
Never stop building!
Garth
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The recent thread on the economics of home-built vs. factory-built
inspires me to tell you how building boats pays dividends. After
building a Windsprint, a Michalak Toto, and a Gypsy in the last two
years, I found my garage was full of scraps of wood and plywood, and
two extra sheets of 1/4" plywood. Not to mention odd-lots of extra
glue, epoxy, fiberglass tape, nails, screws, primer, etc. So when I
banged together my Michalak Piragua this spring, it was FREE! Or, at
least it felt free. I know I did pay for all that stuff once upon a
time -- but you get my drift. I took a pile of scrap and turned it
into a boat. It's a magical feeling. I only paid for one can of
exterior latex house paint ($9) and some 1/4" rope ($10). Knowing how
to build boats just gives you a feeling of self-sufficiency in this
crazy world. We can reverse the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and
extract order (and beauty) from chaos.
In related news, I went to Southampton NY this weekend to visit my
friend Bill, who was the recipient of my first boat, the Windsprint,
as a wedding present last year. We took it out on Mecox Bay, a lovely
body of water several miles across with many little inlets and creeks
-- and, we found, most of it only a foot deep or less at low tide. We
picked up the bilgeboard and let the kick-up rudder kick up as much
as it needed -- and we ghosted along in light breezes, in water so
shallow that if we passed over a clam shell on the bottom we heard it
scrape the skids. It mattered how we trimmed the boat side to side --
an extra inch of heel would scrape bottom, so we gingerly balanced
the hull and marveled at the sea life -- horseshoe crabs in arm's
reach, crabs and clamshells, blooms of seaweed and algae, mussel
beds, all right at our fingertips. It lasted for over an hour -- just
coasting gently, silently along, making one foot of leeway for every
two feet of headway, wondering when we'd ever find the channel again
-- but who cares because it's all so beautiful. A real Bolger boat
moment.
So -- Bolger boats pay dividends. One investment of time and a few
bucks -- and you get a lifetime of pleasure and satisfaction -- and
the occasional free boat.
Never stop building!
Garth
inspires me to tell you how building boats pays dividends. After
building a Windsprint, a Michalak Toto, and a Gypsy in the last two
years, I found my garage was full of scraps of wood and plywood, and
two extra sheets of 1/4" plywood. Not to mention odd-lots of extra
glue, epoxy, fiberglass tape, nails, screws, primer, etc. So when I
banged together my Michalak Piragua this spring, it was FREE! Or, at
least it felt free. I know I did pay for all that stuff once upon a
time -- but you get my drift. I took a pile of scrap and turned it
into a boat. It's a magical feeling. I only paid for one can of
exterior latex house paint ($9) and some 1/4" rope ($10). Knowing how
to build boats just gives you a feeling of self-sufficiency in this
crazy world. We can reverse the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and
extract order (and beauty) from chaos.
In related news, I went to Southampton NY this weekend to visit my
friend Bill, who was the recipient of my first boat, the Windsprint,
as a wedding present last year. We took it out on Mecox Bay, a lovely
body of water several miles across with many little inlets and creeks
-- and, we found, most of it only a foot deep or less at low tide. We
picked up the bilgeboard and let the kick-up rudder kick up as much
as it needed -- and we ghosted along in light breezes, in water so
shallow that if we passed over a clam shell on the bottom we heard it
scrape the skids. It mattered how we trimmed the boat side to side --
an extra inch of heel would scrape bottom, so we gingerly balanced
the hull and marveled at the sea life -- horseshoe crabs in arm's
reach, crabs and clamshells, blooms of seaweed and algae, mussel
beds, all right at our fingertips. It lasted for over an hour -- just
coasting gently, silently along, making one foot of leeway for every
two feet of headway, wondering when we'd ever find the channel again
-- but who cares because it's all so beautiful. A real Bolger boat
moment.
So -- Bolger boats pay dividends. One investment of time and a few
bucks -- and you get a lifetime of pleasure and satisfaction -- and
the occasional free boat.
Never stop building!
Garth