Re: [bolger] Re: Leo and Tangvald
dougpol1 wrote:
didn't believe in them. I had tried at one time to insure a boat without
and engine and it was refuse for just that reason. I have always figured
that if I couldn't get insurance I must be doing something dangerous. If
an insurance co can't afford to insure my boat why should I risk it. If
they are willing than I can take the risk myself. I have never had a
boat insured but I would never sail one that can't be insured. I can't
afford a risk that insurance company can't afford. I have never carried
liability insurance but have always carried liability insurance on my
self. Under the law the value of the boat is the most I can be sued for
as the owner. But as captain I can be sued for neglect criminal neglect
and a host of other things. Personal insurance is cheap for a lot of
coverage so that is what I buy. A million dollars is cheap per year.
Doug
>One huge difference between us was I had an engine and Peter didn't. He
>
>
> --- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com<mailto:bolger%40yahoogroups.com>, "phil
> bolger" <pcb@...> wrote:
> >
> > We have about twenty years of personal correspondence with Peer/Peter
> > Tangvald. We don't believe he killed his two wives (1 shot by pirates/
> > 1 lost overboard in mid-atlantic) and we think that he was dead well
> > before the boat went ashore. To us he appeared to be man of morbidly
> > high ethics, but one who also went into harm's way when warned against
> > such as in the case of the Phillipino pirates.
> >
> > We gather Leo will keep us posted on his boat's success other pertinent
> > notions. Ach, ach, dos dschermans...
> >
>
> I met Peter Tangvald In the Florida keys about 1987 . We spent hours
> setting around and talking. A really interesting and likeable fellow.
> He was sailing his Bolger designed boat and was ,I think out of bordom
> wanting to try some new things. He wanted to change from a yawl to a
> schooner as I had done with the Wolftrap. Its an easy change you move
> the mast aft to a new step and partners. And build a new mast to fit
> the partners forward . It's a little shorter, make a sail and you have
> a simulated schooner but not a real one. Looks like a schooner but it
> is really a ketch. It sails oK but slower to windward. Then you switch
> back with no harm done. You wind up with a mast to sell and a sail and
> you have had fun and your out a little money. I convinced him to try
> it. I never got to talk to him afterward but I hope it wasn't the fact
> that he was sailing a schooner instead of a cat yawl that got him
> killed. The cat yawl may well have been able to beat off the coral
> reef where the schooner couldn't. I have always wondered but been
> afraid to look up his son and ask him.
>
> Change bac
>
>
didn't believe in them. I had tried at one time to insure a boat without
and engine and it was refuse for just that reason. I have always figured
that if I couldn't get insurance I must be doing something dangerous. If
an insurance co can't afford to insure my boat why should I risk it. If
they are willing than I can take the risk myself. I have never had a
boat insured but I would never sail one that can't be insured. I can't
afford a risk that insurance company can't afford. I have never carried
liability insurance but have always carried liability insurance on my
self. Under the law the value of the boat is the most I can be sued for
as the owner. But as captain I can be sued for neglect criminal neglect
and a host of other things. Personal insurance is cheap for a lot of
coverage so that is what I buy. A million dollars is cheap per year.
Doug
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "phil bolger" <pcb@...> wrote:
Change bac
>I met Peter Tangvald In the Florida keys about 1987 . We spent hours setting around and talking. A really interesting and likeable fellow. He was sailing his Bolger designed boat and was ,I think out of bordom wanting to try some new things. He wanted to change from a yawl to a schooner as I had done with the Wolftrap. Its an easy change you move the mast aft to a new step and partners. And build a new mast to fit the partners forward . It's a little shorter, make a sail and you have a simulated schooner but not a real one. Looks like a schooner but it is really a ketch. It sails oK but slower to windward. Then you switch back with no harm done. You wind up with a mast to sell and a sail and you have had fun and your out a little money. I convinced him to try it. I never got to talk to him afterward but I hope it wasn't the fact that he was sailing a schooner instead of a cat yawl that got him killed. The cat yawl may well have been able to beat off the coral reef where the schooner couldn't. I have always wondered but been afraid to look up his son and ask him.
> We have about twenty years of personal correspondence with Peer/Peter
> Tangvald. We don't believe he killed his two wives (1 shot by pirates/
> 1 lost overboard in mid-atlantic) and we think that he was dead well
> before the boat went ashore. To us he appeared to be man of morbidly
> high ethics, but one who also went into harm's way when warned against
> such as in the case of the Phillipino pirates.
>
> We gather Leo will keep us posted on his boat's success other pertinent
> notions. Ach, ach, dos dschermans...
>
Change bac
We have about twenty years of personal correspondence with Peer/Peter
Tangvald. We don't believe he killed his two wives (1 shot by pirates/
1 lost overboard in mid-atlantic) and we think that he was dead well
before the boat went ashore. To us he appeared to be man of morbidly
high ethics, but one who also went into harm's way when warned against
such as in the case of the Phillipino pirates.
We gather Leo will keep us posted on his boat's success other pertinent
notions. Ach, ach, dos dschermans...
Tangvald. We don't believe he killed his two wives (1 shot by pirates/
1 lost overboard in mid-atlantic) and we think that he was dead well
before the boat went ashore. To us he appeared to be man of morbidly
high ethics, but one who also went into harm's way when warned against
such as in the case of the Phillipino pirates.
We gather Leo will keep us posted on his boat's success other pertinent
notions. Ach, ach, dos dschermans...