[bolger] Re: bolger digest
Hello Chuck
Thank you very much for "Instand Boatbilding". There are a lot of fine
articles.
A Happy new year!
Stefan
Chuck Merrell wrote:
Hello all, and Happy 2000!
While cleaning out some of the twentieth century debris
to make room for the
twenty-first century debris, I ran across a file of
pre-Internet newsletters
of twelve years ago, called "The Instant Boatbuilder".
It was sort of like
discovering "The Dead Sea Scrolls" of our group, and was
published by a
boat dreamer named Jeff Hull (in real life a
pediatrician) in Corpus
Christi, Texas. He'd bought a set of "Martha Jane" plans
from Elrow, and
caught up in the wonder of his new obsession decided to
put out a monthly
newsletter. The effort lasted a total of nine issues and
died. Apparently
he came up for air and realized that he could either be a
kid doctor or
publisher/boatbuilder, but not both.
The historically significant thing about the seventy some
pages that were
contained in the nine newsletters was that Jeff went out
and solicited
material for content from other boat nuts and guru's
around the country.
Anyway, in the pages are contributions by Bolger,
Dynamite, Yours truly,
Bernie Wolfard, Jim Michalak (before he sold plans about
the time he built
the prototype Birdwatcher, also an interesting article by
him of how to
build a Gloucester Light Dory using Instant Boat
Techniques, see issue #7),
Dave Carnell, Bob and Sheila Wise, et al. There's even
some deathless prose
treatment of various subjects and some inaccuracy too,
but there are a few
good tips along the way, a good bit of content of
interest to Micro builders
and from a historical standpoint, it's all quite
interesting if not valuable
(and like all efforts of this nature, it gets better as
the publication got
older).
In any case, I've archived them in .pdf files on Private
Postings (about
500K each). It's pretty sure that not more than forty
people in the world
have ever seen this content. "Private Postings" URL is
below. Click #9 on
the list of archives.
http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/merrellc1/
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Thank you very much for "Instand Boatbilding". There are a lot of fine
articles.
A Happy new year!
Stefan
Chuck Merrell wrote:
Hello all, and Happy 2000!
While cleaning out some of the twentieth century debris
to make room for the
twenty-first century debris, I ran across a file of
pre-Internet newsletters
of twelve years ago, called "The Instant Boatbuilder".
It was sort of like
discovering "The Dead Sea Scrolls" of our group, and was
published by a
boat dreamer named Jeff Hull (in real life a
pediatrician) in Corpus
Christi, Texas. He'd bought a set of "Martha Jane" plans
from Elrow, and
caught up in the wonder of his new obsession decided to
put out a monthly
newsletter. The effort lasted a total of nine issues and
died. Apparently
he came up for air and realized that he could either be a
kid doctor or
publisher/boatbuilder, but not both.
The historically significant thing about the seventy some
pages that were
contained in the nine newsletters was that Jeff went out
and solicited
material for content from other boat nuts and guru's
around the country.
Anyway, in the pages are contributions by Bolger,
Dynamite, Yours truly,
Bernie Wolfard, Jim Michalak (before he sold plans about
the time he built
the prototype Birdwatcher, also an interesting article by
him of how to
build a Gloucester Light Dory using Instant Boat
Techniques, see issue #7),
Dave Carnell, Bob and Sheila Wise, et al. There's even
some deathless prose
>from Charles Stout, of long-micro fame. The pagescontain some sophomoric
treatment of various subjects and some inaccuracy too,
but there are a few
good tips along the way, a good bit of content of
interest to Micro builders
and from a historical standpoint, it's all quite
interesting if not valuable
(and like all efforts of this nature, it gets better as
the publication got
older).
In any case, I've archived them in .pdf files on Private
Postings (about
500K each). It's pretty sure that not more than forty
people in the world
have ever seen this content. "Private Postings" URL is
below. Click #9 on
the list of archives.
http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/merrellc1/
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