Green Boats
Bolger cited in an essay surfed into at Culture Change.org
http://tinyurl.com/2pzwqu
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=33
"1. Introduction
A sailboat is not the first thing that comes to mind when
contemplating the range of useful responses to the set of intractable
global problems that confront us. Nor the second. But once it does, a
bit of further study makes it apparent that few things will possess
greater long-term utility in the changed circumstances we should all
be expecting...
8. The Simplest Solution that Works
...However, there is an established style of boat that is so close to
what we want that there seems to be no reason not to start with it.
It is called the square boat, or the Bolger Box, after Phil Bolger, a
naval architect from Gloucester, Massachusetts, who is a renowned
designer of square boats and other unusual craft... "
Graeme
http://tinyurl.com/2pzwqu
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=33
"1. Introduction
A sailboat is not the first thing that comes to mind when
contemplating the range of useful responses to the set of intractable
global problems that confront us. Nor the second. But once it does, a
bit of further study makes it apparent that few things will possess
greater long-term utility in the changed circumstances we should all
be expecting...
8. The Simplest Solution that Works
...However, there is an established style of boat that is so close to
what we want that there seems to be no reason not to start with it.
It is called the square boat, or the Bolger Box, after Phil Bolger, a
naval architect from Gloucester, Massachusetts, who is a renowned
designer of square boats and other unusual craft... "
Graeme