Re: MONSTER MICRO MYSTERY
I think Bruce is right on this MAIB article being about the AS29, and
the characterisation being by Bernie W.
"Common sense", at about 30ft, may have given way to other states of
mind outside Bernie's objectives. Take the example of the
successful "monster" Micro-like design mentioned 10 years later by
Bolger when writing about the *55ft* keel sharpie family live-on-board
concept in MAIB V16 N6 p24: PCB has a completed design of at least
one "Monster Micro". The underlying mystery about could it even be done
is no longer.
Now, is there one in the range between 20 and 55 feet? ...Longer?
Graeme
the characterisation being by Bernie W.
"Common sense", at about 30ft, may have given way to other states of
mind outside Bernie's objectives. Take the example of the
successful "monster" Micro-like design mentioned 10 years later by
Bolger when writing about the *55ft* keel sharpie family live-on-board
concept in MAIB V16 N6 p24: PCB has a completed design of at least
one "Monster Micro". The underlying mystery about could it even be done
is no longer.
Now, is there one in the range between 20 and 55 feet? ...Longer?
Graeme
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Hallman <bruce@...> wrote:
>
> MAIB V6, N22 from 1989 included a brief article by Bernie Wolfard
>
MAIB V6, N22 from 1989 included a brief article by Bernie Wolfard
describing the AS29 design. Back in that era, Bolger was publishing
in Small Boat Journal, and the 'Bolger related' articles in MAIB were
mostly 'home builder' types of articles, plus "Common Sense Design"
articles by Bernie Wolfard. I take it that Bernie had received early
info from PCB about the (then new) Advanced Sharpie 29 design, and
Bernie being familiar with the Micro design, coined the hype term
"Monster Micro". PCB didn't really start publishing regular articles
in MAIB until after the demise of SBJ, starting in January 1990.
describing the AS29 design. Back in that era, Bolger was publishing
in Small Boat Journal, and the 'Bolger related' articles in MAIB were
mostly 'home builder' types of articles, plus "Common Sense Design"
articles by Bernie Wolfard. I take it that Bernie had received early
info from PCB about the (then new) Advanced Sharpie 29 design, and
Bernie being familiar with the Micro design, coined the hype term
"Monster Micro". PCB didn't really start publishing regular articles
in MAIB until after the demise of SBJ, starting in January 1990.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:15 PM, allecto1 <allecto1@...> wrote:
> anyone ever solve this one? --- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com,
>
> "graeme19121984" <graeme19121984@...> wrote:
>>
>> Loose Moose ll? Hmm... talking of biggER Earth Roaming Bolger
>> boats, here's a MONSTER mystery query for all those who follow
>> the "Bolger on Design" series in MAIB.
>>
>> I've been a keen Bolger fan for a few years now, but don't see
>> there's any way soon I am going to cease to be amazed by what
>> fantastic Bolgeristic stuff will turn up next. What's next? Well
>> just take today for example. While looking for something completely
>> different I stumbled across something very intriguing that I have no
>> recollection of ever reading about before. That last of itself is
>> amazing, for what my eye had happened to fall upon was something so
>> close to the core of Bolgerian concerns that I can hardly believe
>> it's not mentioned in some context here so regularly as to be passe
>> by now. In any event perhaps it could never become passe, for it was
>> the MONSTER MICRO!
>>
>> Yes folks, back in 2000/2001 Roger posted a few times here. Once,
>> that he'd filed a list of MAIB "Bolger on Design" articles on actual
>> designs sorted by volume and issue (mess. #13172 - July 27, 01) in
>> bolger2files:http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/EEoURl42_-
>> xD4L1bLpkzjYf7dP0i_QWWdKrkADsDJUF-
>> gqGvi9Dptde89PQM1cfwDSC8dAoJomxrmyqrWxYIxpQSBtaqcEFCE9-oeg/Bolger%
>> 20On%20Design%20-%20MAIB%20sorting.htm
>> (http://tinyurl.com/28whk5) and it was in Roger's index that I
>> found myself for the first time, hunting for anything published
>> whatever/whenever on AS-19. And there below a certain entry I saw
>> this... this... MONSTER MICRO thingo.
>>
>> I can't physically check Roger's indexing as I'm a relatively new
>> subscriber to MAIB, and am working on the assumption that the
>> details are correct for all MAIB issues to when he must have last
>> updated the file on Oct 23, 2001. Here's a few I've extracted as I
>> find it interesting to consider the development and design output
>> sequences in their own right, but also in relation to how PCB&F have
>> chosen to sequence publication of the designs over time.The design
>> numbers are not always given - I presume this is as per how PCB
>> sometimes writes, so where I could I've added the number for
>> clarity. I presumed the short descriptors are PCB&F's and are the
>> article titles and that seems to check out.
>>
>>
>> V Is Pg
>> #422 Micro Cat Yawl 3 - 2 - 17
>>
>> #484 Anhinga 23'3"x 5' Cat Yawl 6 - 11 - 16
>>
>> Monster Micro 29'6" Micro Cat Yawl 6 - 22 - 20
>>
>> #547 AS-29 Advanced Sharpie 29'6"x7'10" 11 - 4 - 22
>>
>> #486 Long Micro 19'6"x6' 11 - 8 - 22
>>
>> #576 AS-39 Ocean Going Winnebago 12 - 15 - 14
>>
>> #550 AS-19 Daysailer Yawl 17 - 15 - 24
>>
>> " " " " 17 - 16 - 30
>>
>>
>> MONSTER MICRO is indexed here too:
>>http://www.messingaboutinboats.com/archive.htmland not just
>> to "Bolger" but to "Wolfard" for the same issue. Recall that Bernie
>> would have commissioned LONG MICRO for CSD after Elrow and CSD
>> success with MICRO. Bernie's CSD winter/spring 1991 catalogue had
>> LONG MICRO still listed as an "eagerly anticipated" prototype, yet
>> he is also shown as having published in MAIB on LONG MICRO in 6 -
>> 20 - 14, a long time before PCB did. So here we have LONG MICRO,
>> the big sister, as being actually younger. If you look at the
>> threadhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bolger/message/44417?
>> threaded=1 started by modified-MICRO builder Jason Stancil in
>> 2005 you'll see the possibility that MONSTER MICRO might be a
>> Wolfard-ism for AS-29. However AS-29 was designed just prior to AS-
>> 19, and although this time PCB's publication sequence matches
>> (except for a curiously lengthy delay of years) this must be set
>> against the fact that AS-19 was in the 1991 winter/spring CSD
>> catalogue as an already established design offer; but without
>> mention in this instance of "eagerly anticipating" her actually
>> older big sister AS-29. How could you? Another thing is AS-29 as an
>> earlier finished design would have had a design number too. Were
>> Wolfard and PCB in MAIB 6 - 22 - 20 introducing a brand new
>> monstrously bigger MICRO, or talking up an older AS?
>>
>> I recall that there was once a 55' Micro-like sharpie cartoon in
>> SBJ. It was gaff yawl rigged like a LOOSE MOOSE or AS, but having a
>> Bolger salient keel similar to a MICRO, and plans got to a certain
>> stage before the clients pulled out.
>>
>> Until today though I've never heard of the 29'6" MONSTER MICRO. If
>> JESSE COOPER, AS-29, MICRO, MICRO NAVIGATOR, and LONG MICRO can go
>> cruising coastwise and right into very thin water; and LOOSE MOOSE
>> can cross thin water and also oceans, where on water might not
>> MONSTER MICRO go? Elrow LaRowe once suggested that one day all the
>> waters of the world might be black with MICROs; MONSTER's
>> capabilities would certainly contribute to that! I imagine it more
>> economical than LOOSE MOOSE, but with similar Earth girdling
>> potential.
>>
>> The above positioning on the list suggests MONSTER may have been
>> developed before LONG MICRO just as AS-29 was before AS-19. Was
>> there a plan accompanying the article? Was it finished? Was the
>> brief, in part, for an economical seagoing (crossing) cruiser? Was
>> it for steel construction? How micro can a monster get?
>>
>> Of course, it could be some kinda large houseboat idea, or PCB
>> thinking out loud in MAIB about what-if-why-not. But then there is
>> Bernie's piece to consider. Maybe the mystery of where MONSTER MICRO
>> went is mixed up in the CSD-PCB&F relationship breakdown?
>>
>> Was Roger just going through the MAIB archive, or has he indexed an
>> eyeballed boat design as perhaps he wrote? I'm sure there would be a
>> lot of interest in a world cruising MICRO, and the background story.
>> Can anyone shed further light on the MONSTER MICRO MYSTERY?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Graeme
>>
>>
>>
>> --- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Hallman" <bruce@> wrote:
>> >
>> >http://ottawa.craigslist.org/boa/294626197.html
>> >
>>
>
>
anyone ever solve this one? --- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com,
"graeme19121984" <graeme19121984@...> wrote:
"graeme19121984" <graeme19121984@...> wrote:
>
> Loose Moose ll? Hmm... talking of biggER Earth Roaming Bolger
> boats, here's a MONSTER mystery query for all those who follow
> the "Bolger on Design" series in MAIB.
>
> I've been a keen Bolger fan for a few years now, but don't see
> there's any way soon I am going to cease to be amazed by what
> fantastic Bolgeristic stuff will turn up next. What's next? Well
> just take today for example. While looking for something completely
> different I stumbled across something very intriguing that I have no
> recollection of ever reading about before. That last of itself is
> amazing, for what my eye had happened to fall upon was something so
> close to the core of Bolgerian concerns that I can hardly believe
> it's not mentioned in some context here so regularly as to be passe
> by now. In any event perhaps it could never become passe, for it was
> the MONSTER MICRO!
>
> Yes folks, back in 2000/2001 Roger posted a few times here. Once,
> that he'd filed a list of MAIB "Bolger on Design" articles on actual
> designs sorted by volume and issue (mess. #13172 - July 27, 01) in
> bolger2files:http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/EEoURl42_-
> xD4L1bLpkzjYf7dP0i_QWWdKrkADsDJUF-
> gqGvi9Dptde89PQM1cfwDSC8dAoJomxrmyqrWxYIxpQSBtaqcEFCE9-oeg/Bolger%
> 20On%20Design%20-%20MAIB%20sorting.htm
> (http://tinyurl.com/28whk5) and it was in Roger's index that I
> found myself for the first time, hunting for anything published
> whatever/whenever on AS-19. And there below a certain entry I saw
> this... this... MONSTER MICRO thingo.
>
> I can't physically check Roger's indexing as I'm a relatively new
> subscriber to MAIB, and am working on the assumption that the
> details are correct for all MAIB issues to when he must have last
> updated the file on Oct 23, 2001. Here's a few I've extracted as I
> find it interesting to consider the development and design output
> sequences in their own right, but also in relation to how PCB&F have
> chosen to sequence publication of the designs over time.The design
> numbers are not always given - I presume this is as per how PCB
> sometimes writes, so where I could I've added the number for
> clarity. I presumed the short descriptors are PCB&F's and are the
> article titles and that seems to check out.
>
>
> V Is Pg
> #422 Micro Cat Yawl 3 - 2 - 17
>
> #484 Anhinga 23'3"x 5' Cat Yawl 6 - 11 - 16
>
> Monster Micro 29'6" Micro Cat Yawl 6 - 22 - 20
>
> #547 AS-29 Advanced Sharpie 29'6"x7'10" 11 - 4 - 22
>
> #486 Long Micro 19'6"x6' 11 - 8 - 22
>
> #576 AS-39 Ocean Going Winnebago 12 - 15 - 14
>
> #550 AS-19 Daysailer Yawl 17 - 15 - 24
>
> " " " " 17 - 16 - 30
>
>
> MONSTER MICRO is indexed here too:
>http://www.messingaboutinboats.com/archive.htmland not just
> to "Bolger" but to "Wolfard" for the same issue. Recall that Bernie
> would have commissioned LONG MICRO for CSD after Elrow and CSD
> success with MICRO. Bernie's CSD winter/spring 1991 catalogue had
> LONG MICRO still listed as an "eagerly anticipated" prototype, yet
> he is also shown as having published in MAIB on LONG MICRO in 6 -
> 20 - 14, a long time before PCB did. So here we have LONG MICRO,
> the big sister, as being actually younger. If you look at the
> threadhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bolger/message/44417?
> threaded=1 started by modified-MICRO builder Jason Stancil in
> 2005 you'll see the possibility that MONSTER MICRO might be a
> Wolfard-ism for AS-29. However AS-29 was designed just prior to AS-
> 19, and although this time PCB's publication sequence matches
> (except for a curiously lengthy delay of years) this must be set
> against the fact that AS-19 was in the 1991 winter/spring CSD
> catalogue as an already established design offer; but without
> mention in this instance of "eagerly anticipating" her actually
> older big sister AS-29. How could you? Another thing is AS-29 as an
> earlier finished design would have had a design number too. Were
> Wolfard and PCB in MAIB 6 - 22 - 20 introducing a brand new
> monstrously bigger MICRO, or talking up an older AS?
>
> I recall that there was once a 55' Micro-like sharpie cartoon in
> SBJ. It was gaff yawl rigged like a LOOSE MOOSE or AS, but having a
> Bolger salient keel similar to a MICRO, and plans got to a certain
> stage before the clients pulled out.
>
> Until today though I've never heard of the 29'6" MONSTER MICRO. If
> JESSE COOPER, AS-29, MICRO, MICRO NAVIGATOR, and LONG MICRO can go
> cruising coastwise and right into very thin water; and LOOSE MOOSE
> can cross thin water and also oceans, where on water might not
> MONSTER MICRO go? Elrow LaRowe once suggested that one day all the
> waters of the world might be black with MICROs; MONSTER's
> capabilities would certainly contribute to that! I imagine it more
> economical than LOOSE MOOSE, but with similar Earth girdling
> potential.
>
> The above positioning on the list suggests MONSTER may have been
> developed before LONG MICRO just as AS-29 was before AS-19. Was
> there a plan accompanying the article? Was it finished? Was the
> brief, in part, for an economical seagoing (crossing) cruiser? Was
> it for steel construction? How micro can a monster get?
>
> Of course, it could be some kinda large houseboat idea, or PCB
> thinking out loud in MAIB about what-if-why-not. But then there is
> Bernie's piece to consider. Maybe the mystery of where MONSTER MICRO
> went is mixed up in the CSD-PCB&F relationship breakdown?
>
> Was Roger just going through the MAIB archive, or has he indexed an
> eyeballed boat design as perhaps he wrote? I'm sure there would be a
> lot of interest in a world cruising MICRO, and the background story.
> Can anyone shed further light on the MONSTER MICRO MYSTERY?
>
> Cheers
> Graeme
>
>
>
> --- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Hallman" <bruce@> wrote:
> >
> >http://ottawa.craigslist.org/boa/294626197.html
> >
>
G'day Bruce,
if the mystery remains open to some speculation for too long, I'll
think about obtaining a photocopy of the article(s) from MAIB - their
service fee seems reasonable (very), but postage and payment
incidentals are discouraging from here. Hopefully, someone is digging
out those back-issues right now :-))
Cheers
Graeme
if the mystery remains open to some speculation for too long, I'll
think about obtaining a photocopy of the article(s) from MAIB - their
service fee seems reasonable (very), but postage and payment
incidentals are discouraging from here. Hopefully, someone is digging
out those back-issues right now :-))
Cheers
Graeme
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Hallman" <bruce@...> wrote:
>
> > the MONSTER MICRO!
>
> I'd agree 'Monster Micro' was very likely a Bernie Wolfard's marketing
> name for AS-29. (From an article in MAIB V6, Issue 22.)
>
> My MAIB collection only goes back to volume 7. MAIB's in that era did
> not have regular Bolger on Design articles, but rather only isolated
> articles typically by the builders, or by Bernie. PCB, at that time
> was publishing regularly in Small Boat Journal. Bolger articles in
> MAIB really began in V8#23 with the 3 Meter multihull design (also
> published in SBJ) Then the bi-weekly articles began with V9#2
> straight through until today, with only two (or three?) missed issues.
>
> I am also missing V11-13, (Jun1991=>Jul1994) if anybody wanted to loan
> me their back issues :)? I would pay for shipping both ways.
>
> the MONSTER MICRO!I'd agree 'Monster Micro' was very likely a Bernie Wolfard's marketing
name for AS-29. (From an article in MAIB V6, Issue 22.)
My MAIB collection only goes back to volume 7. MAIB's in that era did
not have regular Bolger on Design articles, but rather only isolated
articles typically by the builders, or by Bernie. PCB, at that time
was publishing regularly in Small Boat Journal. Bolger articles in
MAIB really began in V8#23 with the 3 Meter multihull design (also
published in SBJ) Then the bi-weekly articles began with V9#2
straight through until today, with only two (or three?) missed issues.
I am also missing V11-13, (Jun1991=>Jul1994) if anybody wanted to loan
me their back issues :)? I would pay for shipping both ways.
Loose Moose ll? Hmm... talking of biggER Earth Roaming Bolger
boats, here's a MONSTER mystery query for all those who follow
the "Bolger on Design" series in MAIB.
I've been a keen Bolger fan for a few years now, but don't see
there's any way soon I am going to cease to be amazed by what
fantastic Bolgeristic stuff will turn up next. What's next? Well
just take today for example. While looking for something completely
different I stumbled across something very intriguing that I have no
recollection of ever reading about before. That last of itself is
amazing, for what my eye had happened to fall upon was something so
close to the core of Bolgerian concerns that I can hardly believe
it's not mentioned in some context here so regularly as to be passe
by now. In any event perhaps it could never become passe, for it was
the MONSTER MICRO!
Yes folks, back in 2000/2001 Roger posted a few times here. Once,
that he'd filed a list of MAIB "Bolger on Design" articles on actual
designs sorted by volume and issue (mess. #13172 - July 27, 01) in
bolger2files:http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/EEoURl42_-
xD4L1bLpkzjYf7dP0i_QWWdKrkADsDJUF-
gqGvi9Dptde89PQM1cfwDSC8dAoJomxrmyqrWxYIxpQSBtaqcEFCE9-oeg/Bolger%
20On%20Design%20-%20MAIB%20sorting.htm
(http://tinyurl.com/28whk5) and it was in Roger's index that I
found myself for the first time, hunting for anything published
whatever/whenever on AS-19. And there below a certain entry I saw
this... this... MONSTER MICRO thingo.
I can't physically check Roger's indexing as I'm a relatively new
subscriber to MAIB, and am working on the assumption that the
details are correct for all MAIB issues to when he must have last
updated the file on Oct 23, 2001. Here's a few I've extracted as I
find it interesting to consider the development and design output
sequences in their own right, but also in relation to how PCB&F have
chosen to sequence publication of the designs over time.The design
numbers are not always given - I presume this is as per how PCB
sometimes writes, so where I could I've added the number for
clarity. I presumed the short descriptors are PCB&F's and are the
article titles and that seems to check out.
V Is Pg
#422 Micro Cat Yawl 3 - 2 - 17
#484 Anhinga 23'3"x 5' Cat Yawl 6 - 11 - 16
Monster Micro 29'6" Micro Cat Yawl 6 - 22 - 20
#547 AS-29 Advanced Sharpie 29'6"x7'10" 11 - 4 - 22
#486 Long Micro 19'6"x6' 11 - 8 - 22
#576 AS-39 Ocean Going Winnebago 12 - 15 - 14
#550 AS-19 Daysailer Yawl 17 - 15 - 24
" " " " 17 - 16 - 30
MONSTER MICRO is indexed here too:
http://www.messingaboutinboats.com/archive.htmland not just
to "Bolger" but to "Wolfard" for the same issue. Recall that Bernie
would have commissioned LONG MICRO for CSD after Elrow and CSD
success with MICRO. Bernie's CSD winter/spring 1991 catalogue had
LONG MICRO still listed as an "eagerly anticipated" prototype, yet
he is also shown as having published in MAIB on LONG MICRO in 6 -
20 - 14, a long time before PCB did. So here we have LONG MICRO,
the big sister, as being actually younger. If you look at the
threadhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bolger/message/44417?
threaded=1 started by modified-MICRO builder Jason Stancil in
2005 you'll see the possibility that MONSTER MICRO might be a
Wolfard-ism for AS-29. However AS-29 was designed just prior to AS-
19, and although this time PCB's publication sequence matches
(except for a curiously lengthy delay of years) this must be set
against the fact that AS-19 was in the 1991 winter/spring CSD
catalogue as an already established design offer; but without
mention in this instance of "eagerly anticipating" her actually
older big sister AS-29. How could you? Another thing is AS-29 as an
earlier finished design would have had a design number too. Were
Wolfard and PCB in MAIB 6 - 22 - 20 introducing a brand new
monstrously bigger MICRO, or talking up an older AS?
I recall that there was once a 55' Micro-like sharpie cartoon in
SBJ. It was gaff yawl rigged like a LOOSE MOOSE or AS, but having a
Bolger salient keel similar to a MICRO, and plans got to a certain
stage before the clients pulled out.
Until today though I've never heard of the 29'6" MONSTER MICRO. If
JESSE COOPER, AS-29, MICRO, MICRO NAVIGATOR, and LONG MICRO can go
cruising coastwise and right into very thin water; and LOOSE MOOSE
can cross thin water and also oceans, where on water might not
MONSTER MICRO go? Elrow LaRowe once suggested that one day all the
waters of the world might be black with MICROs; MONSTER's
capabilities would certainly contribute to that! I imagine it more
economical than LOOSE MOOSE, but with similar Earth girdling
potential.
The above positioning on the list suggests MONSTER may have been
developed before LONG MICRO just as AS-29 was before AS-19. Was
there a plan accompanying the article? Was it finished? Was the
brief, in part, for an economical seagoing (crossing) cruiser? Was
it for steel construction? How micro can a monster get?
Of course, it could be some kinda large houseboat idea, or PCB
thinking out loud in MAIB about what-if-why-not. But then there is
Bernie's piece to consider. Maybe the mystery of where MONSTER MICRO
went is mixed up in the CSD-PCB&F relationship breakdown?
Was Roger just going through the MAIB archive, or has he indexed an
eyeballed boat design as perhaps he wrote? I'm sure there would be a
lot of interest in a world cruising MICRO, and the background story.
Can anyone shed further light on the MONSTER MICRO MYSTERY?
Cheers
Graeme
boats, here's a MONSTER mystery query for all those who follow
the "Bolger on Design" series in MAIB.
I've been a keen Bolger fan for a few years now, but don't see
there's any way soon I am going to cease to be amazed by what
fantastic Bolgeristic stuff will turn up next. What's next? Well
just take today for example. While looking for something completely
different I stumbled across something very intriguing that I have no
recollection of ever reading about before. That last of itself is
amazing, for what my eye had happened to fall upon was something so
close to the core of Bolgerian concerns that I can hardly believe
it's not mentioned in some context here so regularly as to be passe
by now. In any event perhaps it could never become passe, for it was
the MONSTER MICRO!
Yes folks, back in 2000/2001 Roger posted a few times here. Once,
that he'd filed a list of MAIB "Bolger on Design" articles on actual
designs sorted by volume and issue (mess. #13172 - July 27, 01) in
bolger2files:http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/EEoURl42_-
xD4L1bLpkzjYf7dP0i_QWWdKrkADsDJUF-
gqGvi9Dptde89PQM1cfwDSC8dAoJomxrmyqrWxYIxpQSBtaqcEFCE9-oeg/Bolger%
20On%20Design%20-%20MAIB%20sorting.htm
(http://tinyurl.com/28whk5) and it was in Roger's index that I
found myself for the first time, hunting for anything published
whatever/whenever on AS-19. And there below a certain entry I saw
this... this... MONSTER MICRO thingo.
I can't physically check Roger's indexing as I'm a relatively new
subscriber to MAIB, and am working on the assumption that the
details are correct for all MAIB issues to when he must have last
updated the file on Oct 23, 2001. Here's a few I've extracted as I
find it interesting to consider the development and design output
sequences in their own right, but also in relation to how PCB&F have
chosen to sequence publication of the designs over time.The design
numbers are not always given - I presume this is as per how PCB
sometimes writes, so where I could I've added the number for
clarity. I presumed the short descriptors are PCB&F's and are the
article titles and that seems to check out.
V Is Pg
#422 Micro Cat Yawl 3 - 2 - 17
#484 Anhinga 23'3"x 5' Cat Yawl 6 - 11 - 16
Monster Micro 29'6" Micro Cat Yawl 6 - 22 - 20
#547 AS-29 Advanced Sharpie 29'6"x7'10" 11 - 4 - 22
#486 Long Micro 19'6"x6' 11 - 8 - 22
#576 AS-39 Ocean Going Winnebago 12 - 15 - 14
#550 AS-19 Daysailer Yawl 17 - 15 - 24
" " " " 17 - 16 - 30
MONSTER MICRO is indexed here too:
http://www.messingaboutinboats.com/archive.htmland not just
to "Bolger" but to "Wolfard" for the same issue. Recall that Bernie
would have commissioned LONG MICRO for CSD after Elrow and CSD
success with MICRO. Bernie's CSD winter/spring 1991 catalogue had
LONG MICRO still listed as an "eagerly anticipated" prototype, yet
he is also shown as having published in MAIB on LONG MICRO in 6 -
20 - 14, a long time before PCB did. So here we have LONG MICRO,
the big sister, as being actually younger. If you look at the
threadhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bolger/message/44417?
threaded=1 started by modified-MICRO builder Jason Stancil in
2005 you'll see the possibility that MONSTER MICRO might be a
Wolfard-ism for AS-29. However AS-29 was designed just prior to AS-
19, and although this time PCB's publication sequence matches
(except for a curiously lengthy delay of years) this must be set
against the fact that AS-19 was in the 1991 winter/spring CSD
catalogue as an already established design offer; but without
mention in this instance of "eagerly anticipating" her actually
older big sister AS-29. How could you? Another thing is AS-29 as an
earlier finished design would have had a design number too. Were
Wolfard and PCB in MAIB 6 - 22 - 20 introducing a brand new
monstrously bigger MICRO, or talking up an older AS?
I recall that there was once a 55' Micro-like sharpie cartoon in
SBJ. It was gaff yawl rigged like a LOOSE MOOSE or AS, but having a
Bolger salient keel similar to a MICRO, and plans got to a certain
stage before the clients pulled out.
Until today though I've never heard of the 29'6" MONSTER MICRO. If
JESSE COOPER, AS-29, MICRO, MICRO NAVIGATOR, and LONG MICRO can go
cruising coastwise and right into very thin water; and LOOSE MOOSE
can cross thin water and also oceans, where on water might not
MONSTER MICRO go? Elrow LaRowe once suggested that one day all the
waters of the world might be black with MICROs; MONSTER's
capabilities would certainly contribute to that! I imagine it more
economical than LOOSE MOOSE, but with similar Earth girdling
potential.
The above positioning on the list suggests MONSTER may have been
developed before LONG MICRO just as AS-29 was before AS-19. Was
there a plan accompanying the article? Was it finished? Was the
brief, in part, for an economical seagoing (crossing) cruiser? Was
it for steel construction? How micro can a monster get?
Of course, it could be some kinda large houseboat idea, or PCB
thinking out loud in MAIB about what-if-why-not. But then there is
Bernie's piece to consider. Maybe the mystery of where MONSTER MICRO
went is mixed up in the CSD-PCB&F relationship breakdown?
Was Roger just going through the MAIB archive, or has he indexed an
eyeballed boat design as perhaps he wrote? I'm sure there would be a
lot of interest in a world cruising MICRO, and the background story.
Can anyone shed further light on the MONSTER MICRO MYSTERY?
Cheers
Graeme
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