RE: [bolger] Re: Welcome to Battered Bolger Boat Land
Jeb, I can understand the too little time idea, but how can one have too
many boats? --FrankB
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From: Jack &Lois [mailto:jalo@...]
jeb, with too many boats and too little time on the smirking shores of
Fund y
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many boats? --FrankB
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From: Jack &Lois [mailto:jalo@...]
jeb, with too many boats and too little time on the smirking shores of
Fund y
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Greetings Bolgerados. Just an update from the Bay of Fundy theme park for
damaged and orphaned Bolger boats. I've just become the foster parent of yet
another wounded boat. This one a Jessie Cooper, of all things. She was swept
off her cradle by a hurricane Juan storm surge, pulled out into the basin
and then pitched up onto the rocks, where she was bounced and pounded until
the storm passed. Amazingly she survived much better than one would expect.
Her original (late) builder obviously built her like a nuclear sub. The
worst damage is to her aft starboard side where a section of chine was
chewed away and a side panel broke away. Other than that and a couple of
isolated holes and abrasions she's very sound. The cushions didn't even get
wet. All bulkheads appear sound and unwarped. I just have to batten her down
for the winter and get my butt in gear to finally finish restoring the Micro
currently in my shop. The earliest I'm likely to start reconstructive
surgery on the JC will be in the spring. This is just a heads up to
anticipate requests for repair tips and opions likely to proliferate from
the shores of Fundy in the not too distant future.
jeb, with too many boats and too little time on the smirking shores of Fundy
damaged and orphaned Bolger boats. I've just become the foster parent of yet
another wounded boat. This one a Jessie Cooper, of all things. She was swept
off her cradle by a hurricane Juan storm surge, pulled out into the basin
and then pitched up onto the rocks, where she was bounced and pounded until
the storm passed. Amazingly she survived much better than one would expect.
Her original (late) builder obviously built her like a nuclear sub. The
worst damage is to her aft starboard side where a section of chine was
chewed away and a side panel broke away. Other than that and a couple of
isolated holes and abrasions she's very sound. The cushions didn't even get
wet. All bulkheads appear sound and unwarped. I just have to batten her down
for the winter and get my butt in gear to finally finish restoring the Micro
currently in my shop. The earliest I'm likely to start reconstructive
surgery on the JC will be in the spring. This is just a heads up to
anticipate requests for repair tips and opions likely to proliferate from
the shores of Fundy in the not too distant future.
jeb, with too many boats and too little time on the smirking shores of Fundy