Re: [bolger] Re: A Bolger library
Most entries in the bibliography have a few descriptive words e.g. "March,
Edgar J. 'Inshore Craft of Britain in the Days of Sail and Oar', Camden,
Maine: International Marine Publishing Co., 1970. Second only to Chapelle's
'American Small Sailing Craft' for usefulness in imitating traditional rigs."
I have this in my own library. It's in two volumes.
Howard
In a message dated 28-02-02 1:47:42 AM E. Australia Standard Time,
brucehallman@...writes:
Edgar J. 'Inshore Craft of Britain in the Days of Sail and Oar', Camden,
Maine: International Marine Publishing Co., 1970. Second only to Chapelle's
'American Small Sailing Craft' for usefulness in imitating traditional rigs."
I have this in my own library. It's in two volumes.
Howard
In a message dated 28-02-02 1:47:42 AM E. Australia Standard Time,
brucehallman@...writes:
> --- In bolger@y..., "howardstephenson" <stephensonhw@a...> wrote:[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > "100 Small Boat Rigs" has a bibliography of 40-odd books by
>
> I tried to resist simply copying names of books, rather I was trying
> to capture a short PCB phrase describing his use of the book, or why
> he liked the book.
>
> I have mostly lost my collection of old MAIB magazines and I gave
> away my copy of 100 Small Boat Rigs, so I haven't posted referenced
> from these sources. As you know, very often he will describe why his
> ideas are influenced by some favorite book he has just read, and that
> is what I was trying to capture.
>
--- In bolger@y..., "howardstephenson" <stephensonhw@a...> wrote:
to capture a short PCB phrase describing his use of the book, or why
he liked the book.
I have mostly lost my collection of old MAIB magazines and I gave
away my copy of 100 Small Boat Rigs, so I haven't posted referenced
from these sources. As you know, very often he will describe why his
ideas are influenced by some favorite book he has just read, and that
is what I was trying to capture.
> "100 Small Boat Rigs" has a bibliography of 40-odd books byI tried to resist simply copying names of books, rather I was trying
to capture a short PCB phrase describing his use of the book, or why
he liked the book.
I have mostly lost my collection of old MAIB magazines and I gave
away my copy of 100 Small Boat Rigs, so I haven't posted referenced
from these sources. As you know, very often he will describe why his
ideas are influenced by some favorite book he has just read, and that
is what I was trying to capture.
"100 Small Boat Rigs" has a bibliography of 40-odd books by
Beuaudoin, Brewington, Brogger, Chapelle, Chapman, Chatterton, Clark,
Creagh-Osborne, Culler, Esterly, Folkard, Fox, Garden, Herreshoff,
Landstrom, Leather, Letcher, March, Marchaj, Moore, Schoettle, Smith,
Stephens, Taylor, Worcester and Worth.
Not sure that I have the energy to add all these to the database and,
anyway, most of them are the obvious ones, rather than the
interesting titles that have been listed so far.
Howard
Beuaudoin, Brewington, Brogger, Chapelle, Chapman, Chatterton, Clark,
Creagh-Osborne, Culler, Esterly, Folkard, Fox, Garden, Herreshoff,
Landstrom, Leather, Letcher, March, Marchaj, Moore, Schoettle, Smith,
Stephens, Taylor, Worcester and Worth.
Not sure that I have the energy to add all these to the database and,
anyway, most of them are the obvious ones, rather than the
interesting titles that have been listed so far.
Howard
To add further, Peter Spectre recently said in his column at the
beginning of WoodenBoat that Bolger had written to him to say that "Bird
of Dawning" by Masefield was his favorite book. I immediately pulled it
off the shelf and made my oldest son read it.
HJ
brucehallman wrote:
beginning of WoodenBoat that Bolger had written to him to say that "Bird
of Dawning" by Masefield was his favorite book. I immediately pulled it
off the shelf and made my oldest son read it.
HJ
brucehallman wrote:
>
> [Thinking, what the heck, I put these references I found in a
> database here at Bolger Groups.] It is an open database, so please
> add to it if you can. The general idea is to collect together a list
> of books that PCB cites as being influential on his thinking. Books
> in his "library" so to speak.
>
> The two he seems to keep coming back to are: Howard Chapelle's
> _Boatbuilding_ and L.Francis Herreshoff's _The Common Sense of Yacht
> Design_.
>
> Though, so far, I haven't found the reference to _Captains
> Courageous_, anybody out there remember where he wrote about this
> book?
>
> Rig 84 (Baldheaded Gaff Schooner)Thank you, thank you. I had gone through all the other books a couple
of times. My copy of 101SBR is downstairs and I didn't think of it.
PHV
Rig 84 (Baldheaded Gaff Schooner)
Cheers
Derek
Cheers
Derek
You have probably noticed that quite often PCB makes reference to the
books he has read, most often citing their influence on his thought
process and his designs. One reference he made several years back
was to Rudyard Kipling's book _Captains Courageous_.
Based on his recommendation, I picked up the book and read it, and
found it quite moving. Recently, I grew curious, wanting to re-read
Bolger's reference to that book, so I sat down and thumbed through my
collection of Bolger writings looking for references to books he has
read.
[Thinking, what the heck, I put these references I found in a
database here at Bolger Groups.] It is an open database, so please
add to it if you can. The general idea is to collect together a list
of books that PCB cites as being influential on his thinking. Books
in his "library" so to speak.
The two he seems to keep coming back to are: Howard Chapelle's
_Boatbuilding_ and L.Francis Herreshoff's _The Common Sense of Yacht
Design_.
Though, so far, I haven't found the reference to _Captains
Courageous_, anybody out there remember where he wrote about this
book?
books he has read, most often citing their influence on his thought
process and his designs. One reference he made several years back
was to Rudyard Kipling's book _Captains Courageous_.
Based on his recommendation, I picked up the book and read it, and
found it quite moving. Recently, I grew curious, wanting to re-read
Bolger's reference to that book, so I sat down and thumbed through my
collection of Bolger writings looking for references to books he has
read.
[Thinking, what the heck, I put these references I found in a
database here at Bolger Groups.] It is an open database, so please
add to it if you can. The general idea is to collect together a list
of books that PCB cites as being influential on his thinking. Books
in his "library" so to speak.
The two he seems to keep coming back to are: Howard Chapelle's
_Boatbuilding_ and L.Francis Herreshoff's _The Common Sense of Yacht
Design_.
Though, so far, I haven't found the reference to _Captains
Courageous_, anybody out there remember where he wrote about this
book?