Re: [bolger] Re: Call for a collection... (Addition)

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:25 PM, lon arnecke<lonarnecke@...> wrote:
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> easy girl.....
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Except there is so much truth in it. Those 412 articles are a
monumental accomplishment. I see irony when the 'Small Boat Journal'
was renamed 'Boat Journal' as they were rejecting PCB's submissions
and pushing him away to MAIB. This was quickly followed by Boat
Journal's demise.

I think these glossy boat magazines symbolize what PCB was thinking
about with his classic turn of words:

"Irresponsible, a gratuitous mockery of right thinking boatmen and
other snobs."

Not to mention, the grief is real, and I feel some too.
easy girl.....

--- OnFri, 8/21/09, Susanne@...<philbolger@...>wrote:

From: Susanne@... <philbolger@...>
Subject: [bolger] Re: Call for a collection... (Addition)
To: bolger@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, August 21, 2009, 11:45 PM

 
Sorry,
     I forgot the obvious.  The ProBoat piece was 2/3-page Editorial by Mr. Lazarus in which he threw Phil a bone-letpost-mortem, expressing gentle padding on Phil's head about how nice, ever so nice #537 'Sometime or Never' is.  He does speak of a 'seven-hundred- something' design archive most of which he won't be quizzable on.  In that call, he did find himself unawares that Phil likely had the longest consecutive sequence on 'Design' in any periodical ever.  Lazarus reflexively beamed with his instant reference to Small Boat Journal.  Not bad, but no cigar !  And about two decades out of sync.  He was absolutely unfamiliar with MAIB - no wonder, it ain't 'professional' - and thus Phil's staggering sequence of 412+ columns just on his own designs, in short and long pieces, any type, subject, or outcome.  So how then would be define 'professional' after all in that 'gated community' of the mind?  US Navy had none of the acutely-painful 'contact-phobias' that Mr. Lazarus has found himself suffering from over 20 years.  The pending new Health-Care Regime might offer some ray of hope for this sad conditions.    
    Naah, there ain't no potion or herbs or healing hands for this toxic destructive mind-set.
Must be just my grief that is speaking here...
Susanne Altenburger
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent:Friday, August 21, 2009 7:22 PM
Subject:Call for a collection of notes on Phil's Death in the Yachting Press

Mason just mentioned WOODENBOAT's effort on Phil's.  And that magazine has frequently been very supportive of PCB.  It has usually been a respectful and friendly two-way affair, since without boat-designs, any type boating journalism would get stale soon.  The missing topics mentioned earlier will have to be covered eventually.

There are glaring exceptions though - predictably.  I just retrieved from the mailbox CRUISING WORLD's piece, the only piece, on Phil Bolger's 57 years of design work ever.  As one would expect, after taking from me serious time, photos and line-art of 'representative designs Mr. Bill Springer (Senior Editor) indulged in a 1/3-page note with one of my photos of Phil aboard WHALEWATCHER (not mentioned!); ahh those dreadful editorial constraints.  Good thing that we can read instead three fully-illustrated pages on (wait here it comes!!) "NMEA 2000 Wind Sensors: Promise That's Partially Fulfilled"; 'partially fulfilled' really tugs on your heart-strings. ..  A consistent ending to decades of carefully protected ignorance on what actually might make for a good 'Cruiser' - beyond what advertisers allow, offering rehash after rehash of deep-draft, one-season-only, at times surprisingly fragile, and often conceptually remarkably incoherent examples of under-thinking and over-selling.  CW's Jeremy Geary years ago shared with us that his experience in a 4'6" draft cruiser on the ICW offers significant insights on the virtues of 'Shallow Draft'. 

No wonder that Phil declined to ever connect any completed cruiser and owner to CW; those good folks might not understand how AS-29 or ROMP should be be allowed to thought of, never mind be taken to sea...  They sure would not know how actually handle these types to best advantage; who needs their giddy snickering about those silly 'folding masts' and 'off-center- boards' in print.  Come to think of it, who would keep a collection of CW or SAIL in the attic for generations anyway ??  Phil grabbed and kept his share of RUDDER, YACHTING etc. with issues from the 1890s because there was a lot to be learned and then moved beyond from.  While these CW or SAIL sailors have many more cruising miles on their back than Phil and I combined (that would be easy) the mere thought of BIRDWATCHER' s attributes and thus capabilities might induce irrepairable and thus expensive mental anguish. 

That particular 'refugium of sailor's wisdom' is much larger than one would think in an age of social advances (which Phil mostly feasted on as a sign of desirable development across his life-time alone !), progressive degrees of freedom to acquire knowledge, and in which Chinese Communist Generals outcompete each other in become ultra-rich Capitalists.  These private colonies/gated- communities of 'journalism' appear at times to be squatting across the majority of known publications 'real estate'. 

Alas, even in WoodenBoat Founder Jon Wilson's world does one find such phenomena.  Paul Lazarus' PROFESSIONAL BOATBULDER MAGAZINE featuredfor the first and indeed the last time evera design and thus a few thoughts by Phil Bolger in the 20th Anniversary Issue Aug./Sept. 2009.  Between 1989 and 2009, Phil clearly has neither been 'Professional' enough for Paul nor would Phil ever have had anything to offer to Boatbuilders.  Across 120 consecutive issues, not a single project of Phil Bolger's (or Friends, Inc) was worthy of the high standards of the publication, no matter what purpose, shape, propulsion, material.  On the other hand, there was significant initial article space and then 'lively' back-and-forth in the Letters section about the "100-Knot Yacht" someone was trying to be learned about.  Cutting edge of decadence indeed.  Nothing on what $5/gal will mean for the Builders' clients, or the Builders' own cost-structure as ProBoat is fully synthetics-oriented i.e. completely hooked on high-carbon building-practices which may be a tad problematic at $120/barrel of primary chemical base for all the fine chemistry.  We've always liked some of that good stuff, but only some - not 100% mad-cap dependency.  
     Also remember that Paul was a fierce proponent to putting America's design- and construction- industry under the yoke of 'rigorous access-restrictions ' following European Union precedent...  If you think that getting a home-build craft legalized in New Jersey is a problem, the old sea-faring nation of Spain for instance has completely succumbed to a similar such monopoly, with EU-Directives elsewhere successfully salting the earth against the broadly mixed and thus inherently viable working waterfront culture that breeds both CW, ProBoat and Phil Bolger and Friends. 
     In my hand the recent Letter of Appreciation sent to us by the US Navy for multiple consultancies rendered successfully since 2002 I did have to give Paul Lazarus a phone call a week ago or so...

Susanne Altenburger

P.S. Please keep your eyes open for other obits on Phil, particularly the good ones.  I have WATERCRAFT for instance.  I would appreciate receiving originals or copies of whatever is/was out there on Phil's life and death.  I will let you know which ones I already have beyond those mentioned here. 
_

Sorry,
     I forgot the obvious.  The ProBoat piece was 2/3-page Editorial by Mr. Lazarus in which he threw Phil a bone-letpost-mortem, expressing gentle padding on Phil's head about how nice, ever so nice #537 'Sometime or Never' is.  He does speak of a 'seven-hundred-something' design archive most of which he won't be quizzable on.  In that call, he did find himself unawares that Phil likely had the longest consecutive sequence on 'Design' in any periodical ever.  Lazarus reflexively beamed with his instant reference to Small Boat Journal.  Not bad, but no cigar !  And about two decades out of sync.  He was absolutely unfamiliar with MAIB - no wonder, it ain't 'professional' - and thus Phil's staggering sequence of 412+ columns just on his own designs, in short and long pieces, any type, subject, or outcome.  So how then would be define 'professional' after all in that 'gated community' of the mind?  US Navy had none of the acutely-painful 'contact-phobias' that Mr. Lazarus has found himself suffering from over 20 years.  The pending new Health-Care Regime might offer some ray of hope for this sad conditions.    
    Naah, there ain't no potion or herbs or healing hands for this toxic destructive mind-set.
Must be just my grief that is speaking here...
Susanne Altenburger
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent:Friday, August 21, 2009 7:22 PM
Subject:Call for a collection of notes on Phil's Death in the Yachting Press

Mason just mentioned WOODENBOAT's effort on Phil's.  And that magazine has frequently been very supportive of PCB.  It has usually been a respectful and friendly two-way affair, since without boat-designs, any type boating journalism would get stale soon.  The missing topics mentioned earlier will have to be covered eventually.

There are glaring exceptions though - predictably.  I just retrieved from the mailbox CRUISING WORLD's piece, the only piece, on Phil Bolger's 57 years of design work ever.  As one would expect, after taking from me serious time, photos and line-art of 'representative designs Mr. Bill Springer (Senior Editor) indulged in a 1/3-page note with one of my photos of Phil aboard WHALEWATCHER (not mentioned!); ahh those dreadful editorial constraints.  Good thing that we can read instead three fully-illustrated pages on (wait here it comes!!) "NMEA 2000 Wind Sensors: Promise That's Partially Fulfilled"; 'partially fulfilled' really tugs on your heart-strings...  A consistent ending to decades of carefully protected ignorance on what actually might make for a good 'Cruiser' - beyond what advertisers allow, offering rehash after rehash of deep-draft, one-season-only, at times surprisingly fragile, and often conceptually remarkably incoherent examples of under-thinking and over-selling.  CW's Jeremy Geary years ago shared with us that his experience in a 4'6" draft cruiser on the ICW offers significant insights on the virtues of 'Shallow Draft'. 

No wonder that Phil declined to ever connect any completed cruiser and owner to CW; those good folks might not understand how AS-29 or ROMP should be be allowed to thought of, never mind be taken to sea...  They sure would not know how actually handle these types to best advantage; who needs their giddy snickering about those silly 'folding masts' and 'off-center-boards' in print.  Come to think of it, who would keep a collection of CW or SAIL in the attic for generations anyway ??  Phil grabbed and kept his share of RUDDER, YACHTING etc. with issues from the 1890s because there was a lot to be learned and then moved beyond from.  While these CW or SAIL sailors have many more cruising miles on their back than Phil and I combined (that would be easy) the mere thought of BIRDWATCHER's attributes and thus capabilities might induce irrepairable and thus expensive mental anguish. 

That particular 'refugium of sailor's wisdom' is much larger than one would think in an age of social advances (which Phil mostly feasted on as a sign of desirable development across his life-time alone !), progressive degrees of freedom to acquire knowledge, and in which Chinese Communist Generals outcompete each other in become ultra-rich Capitalists.  These private colonies/gated-communities of 'journalism' appear at times to be squatting across the majority of known publications 'real estate'. 

Alas, even in WoodenBoat Founder Jon Wilson's world does one find such phenomena.  Paul Lazarus' PROFESSIONAL BOATBULDER MAGAZINE featuredfor the first and indeed the last time evera design and thus a few thoughts by Phil Bolger in the 20th Anniversary Issue Aug./Sept. 2009.  Between 1989 and 2009, Phil clearly has neither been 'Professional' enough for Paul nor would Phil ever have had anything to offer to Boatbuilders.  Across 120 consecutive issues, not a single project of Phil Bolger's (or Friends, Inc) was worthy of the high standards of the publication, no matter what purpose, shape, propulsion, material.  On the other hand, there was significant initial article space and then 'lively' back-and-forth in the Letters section about the "100-Knot Yacht" someone was trying to be learned about.  Cutting edge of decadence indeed.  Nothing on what $5/gal will mean for the Builders' clients, or the Builders' own cost-structure as ProBoat is fully synthetics-oriented i.e. completely hooked on high-carbon building-practices which may be a tad problematic at $120/barrel of primary chemical base for all the fine chemistry.  We've always liked some of that good stuff, but only some - not 100% mad-cap dependency.  
     Also remember that Paul was a fierce proponent to putting America's design- and construction-industry under the yoke of 'rigorous access-restrictions' following European Union precedent...  If you think that getting a home-build craft legalized in New Jersey is a problem, the old sea-faring nation of Spain for instance has completely succumbed to a similar such monopoly, with EU-Directives elsewhere successfully salting the earth against the broadly mixed and thus inherently viable working waterfront culture that breeds both CW, ProBoat and Phil Bolger and Friends. 
     In my hand the recent Letter of Appreciation sent to us by the US Navy for multiple consultancies rendered successfully since 2002 I did have to give Paul Lazarus a phone call a week ago or so...

Susanne Altenburger

P.S. Please keep your eyes open for other obits on Phil, particularly the good ones.  I have WATERCRAFT for instance.  I would appreciate receiving originals or copies of whatever is/was out there on Phil's life and death.  I will let you know which ones I already have beyond those mentioned here. 
_