SUMMER EASE #471
The design index has it: MAIB, V16#22.
Mark has it above at Message #15736 as MAIB 4/1/99.
Roger Vaillancourt was preparing his index to a MAIB
sorting "Bolger On Design",an html page at Bolger2 group Files
(Msg #13172 & revised at Msg #14996), and so having the article to
hand at Msg #15849 posted 2 x Summer Ease scans and details to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bolger2/files/Summer%20Ease/
There's an interesting SUPERBRICK connection posted by Steve at Msg
#23234, 6Sept2002, about a reader's letter to the UK
magazine "WATERCRAFT" nominating SUPERBRICK as better suited to the
French canals than SUMMER EASE as suggested by the mag in the
preceeding issue that featured a Bolger article on SUMMER EASE.
Some of Steve's post:
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".. Despite a heavy focus on traditional (or "character") boats,
there's a surprising amount of Bolger stuff...
... I eagerly dive in when the latest issues arrives, but nothing has
made me smile more than seeing the lines of SUPERBRICK --
yes, Superbrick -- in the letters section of the current issue.
Last issue they ran a two-page article by Bolger on "Summer
Ease", a 24-foot water-ballasted sharpie with a cuddy and large
cockpit. The editors (not Bolger) suggested that she'd be a good
choice for "coping" with the canals in France and the UK.
In the current issue, one Duncan Gilchrist of Bath (bless his
heart) suggests that Superbrick would be a better choice, and
declares that she "cries out for development"!"
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My bet (from my Msg #54701) is he's refering to Watercraft #34,
July/August 2002, ".. GRAND DESIGNS: How Iain Oughtred re-thought
his popular Ness Yawl and invented the gunter rig and Phil Bolger
created a simple but shapely water-ballasted sharpie..."
The Watercraft article is probably similar to the MAIB one. Boy, I'd
like to read that! Someone said PCB said, if doing it over again,
he would do it in Birdwatcher fashion. Makes for a great cruising
dinghy as is though; kinda reminiscent of the DCA's "Rebel" design.
A tunnel tent on hoops stored at the cuddy bulkhead would be out of
the way yet be quickly erected to give a large sheltered volume much
greater than cabins of yachts of larger LOA - sort of like the BW
idea of doubling the cabin/cockpit space available.
Most kids would just love it in the cuddy. BUT. Where will adults
sleep? A pity it is if S E is strictly a daysailer. Hammocks?
Graeme
Mark has it above at Message #15736 as MAIB 4/1/99.
Roger Vaillancourt was preparing his index to a MAIB
sorting "Bolger On Design",an html page at Bolger2 group Files
(Msg #13172 & revised at Msg #14996), and so having the article to
hand at Msg #15849 posted 2 x Summer Ease scans and details to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bolger2/files/Summer%20Ease/
There's an interesting SUPERBRICK connection posted by Steve at Msg
#23234, 6Sept2002, about a reader's letter to the UK
magazine "WATERCRAFT" nominating SUPERBRICK as better suited to the
French canals than SUMMER EASE as suggested by the mag in the
preceeding issue that featured a Bolger article on SUMMER EASE.
Some of Steve's post:
-------------------------------------------------------------
".. Despite a heavy focus on traditional (or "character") boats,
there's a surprising amount of Bolger stuff...
... I eagerly dive in when the latest issues arrives, but nothing has
made me smile more than seeing the lines of SUPERBRICK --
yes, Superbrick -- in the letters section of the current issue.
Last issue they ran a two-page article by Bolger on "Summer
Ease", a 24-foot water-ballasted sharpie with a cuddy and large
cockpit. The editors (not Bolger) suggested that she'd be a good
choice for "coping" with the canals in France and the UK.
In the current issue, one Duncan Gilchrist of Bath (bless his
heart) suggests that Superbrick would be a better choice, and
declares that she "cries out for development"!"
----------------------------------------------------------
My bet (from my Msg #54701) is he's refering to Watercraft #34,
July/August 2002, ".. GRAND DESIGNS: How Iain Oughtred re-thought
his popular Ness Yawl and invented the gunter rig and Phil Bolger
created a simple but shapely water-ballasted sharpie..."
The Watercraft article is probably similar to the MAIB one. Boy, I'd
like to read that! Someone said PCB said, if doing it over again,
he would do it in Birdwatcher fashion. Makes for a great cruising
dinghy as is though; kinda reminiscent of the DCA's "Rebel" design.
A tunnel tent on hoops stored at the cuddy bulkhead would be out of
the way yet be quickly erected to give a large sheltered volume much
greater than cabins of yachts of larger LOA - sort of like the BW
idea of doubling the cabin/cockpit space available.
Most kids would just love it in the cuddy. BUT. Where will adults
sleep? A pity it is if S E is strictly a daysailer. Hammocks?
Graeme