Re: [bolger] Bolger Striker 25
After a rather arduous yahoo frenemy process of just banging away without any clues as to why it's such a problem those google books screen captures are now in aphoto album titled "Bolger 25 - An Unusual Cruiser".
When are they going to fix user unfriendly "Photos", I wonder.
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Now I'm gonna sit back and read it slow to relax after them yastruggleses... 
---In bolger@yahoogroups.com, <c.ruzer@...> wrote :
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I've snipped 5 off page screen captures of that Boating Jul 1965Bolger 25 - An Unusual Cruiserarticle - they're not the clearest, nor the tiniest files, but I don't know of another way to save that content off google books viewer for my Bolger archives...
Pans for this new 25' cruiser are available for $45 from Popular Boating Plans Department. c/- Ziff-Davis Service Division, 589 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10012. Included are designer's specifications and instructions keyed to detailed drawings. Make check or money order payable to POPULAR BOATING. Sorry, but COD's cannot be accepted. Please remit US currency.
Yahoo seems to have placed the bulk of my last message below "Hide message history"! ! ! They doesn't like links or google books?
I've snipped 5 off page screen captures of that Boating Jul 1965Bolger 25 - An Unusual Cruiserarticle - they're not the clearest, nor the tiniest files, but I don't know of another way to save that content off google books viewer for my Bolger archives...
Pans for this new 25' cruiser are available for $45 from Popular Boating Plans Department. c/- Ziff-Davis Service Division, 589 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10012. Included are designer's specifications and instructions keyed to detailed drawings. Make check or money order payable to POPULAR BOATING. Sorry, but COD's cannot be accepted. Please remit US currency.
25ft it is - my misread.
Yes it is different. Do you access the cabin on the starboard side ducking under the 'bridge deck"or is there a centred hatch the skipper in the photo is standing on?
Is theStriker 25pictured there a plywood built boat by Striker boats of Miami?
That photo is also elsewhere: 1958 Magazine Photo Striker 25 Boats Designed by Phillip Bolger Miami,FL
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Google readily pulls up a letter to the editor and reply inBoatingmagazine,Jul-Dec 1966, enquiring about a "Bolger Striker 25" referred to in an earlier article featuring the "Bolger Striker" inBoating, Jul 1965, page 46.
The Bolger Striker
In your article about the Bolger 25, in the November 1965 issue, a reference was made to the Bolger Striker, a larger version of the Bolger 25. Where can I find out more about this boat? BANJAMIN F. PARKER, M.D., NEW ORLEANS, LA.
The reply was:
From her designer -- Philip C. Bolger, 250 Washington St., Gloucester, Mass. 01930. -Editor
That Boating article, July 1965, beginning page 42, looks like it is in an advertorial series for "Popular Boating", a plans purveyor. It is headed: "Bolger 25 - An Unusual Cruiser" by Philip C Bolger; and sub-headed: "A new boat that is destined to stir up controversy - by a designer famed for his ability to resist the usual".
It looks to me like there were 5 "Striker" versions, 'A' through 'E', with the "Striker 25" likely being the "fish killer" version 'D'. The plans were well developed and detailed for version 'A', but were "extremely sketchy and oversimplified" for the rest, and Bolger wrote that 9 out of 10 builders needed even less than those drawings to takeover the detailed design of a boat!
I think the photo on ebay of the Striker Boats, Miami, FL. version may in fact be more akin to version 'E'.
NB. Bruce has a "Striker" listed inthe design table with these details:
Striker
P
29'x7'5"
V12-N11
Early box keel steel production boats, 15Oct99, pre-Bell's Puffer
Avery different one .... again!
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1958 Magazine Photo Striker 25 Boats Designed by Phillip Bolger Miami,FL
Google Books Boating Jul-Dec 1966
Its 25
from the ad. It has a conventional look when you first glance and then you look
closer and see all sorts of stuff you never saw on a sportsfisherman before. I
would love to see more just for the entertainment value. I wonder if any of them
are still around?
HJ
On 11 Oct 2015 19:42:29 -0700,
"c.ruzer@... [bolger]" <bolger@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
50ft (?) sport fisher built by Striker Boats of Miami, FL. 1958 zine ad. Photo:
eBay item number: 361404970640
50ft (?) sport fisher built by Striker Boats of Miami, FL. 1958 zine ad. Photo:
eBay item number: 361404970640