Re: Bruce Hallman's site
I had a hazy recollection that Bruce had moved house and taken on a rather large house restoration project. Checking back I'm not sure if he also sold his near finished Topaz. Gosh, time flies. I would think that Bruce has secure backups to all the material he's published online... and more that he hadn't published.
Dilemma about my Topaz Spyder
Aug 23, 2013https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/69788
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/69254
Hallman's collection of isometrics was certainly fun to browse.
It also would be of great value to Susan. The last activity I saw
from Hallman was a few pics of his Topaz Spyder being moved to a
new home. Actually the pics were of the boat leaving the build
site. I don't recall it at the new site. The Topaz was (at my
best guess) over 90% complete. I expected post launch photos in a
few months. Instead all went dark. I long ago concluded he ran
into a sudden major health problem.
-- Don Schultz
I think that Bruce and PB&F will come to make sure that his body of renderings will not get lost.
I hope that matters are moving in the right direction.
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I knew that when the OLD SHOE mast-episode emerged, that someone would sooner or later bring up the option to just build the original mast-design in wood.
The option still stands. Let me know what you need to get this done.
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I'm still willing to try and recover as much of Bruce's isometrics database as I can from the various archives and flickr and put it up on a separate page on chebacco.com. but I am not going to do anything without Bruce's permission - does anyone know how to contact him? (the email address I have used in the past is likely hijacked like his site I guess)
Hi Matthew,
I recall this issue was topical here last August. Was said to be resolvable, but apparently not... at least not yet. And now Yahoo has sold Flikr where Bruce placed most of those isometrics. Yahoo gave notice a couple weeks ago about a time limit in which to save content on Flikr before the new owner (name escapes me) owns it all and does what they will. See:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/topics/71396
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hallman/albums?ytcheck=1&new_session=1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hallman/albums/72157613767421231
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hallman/tags/
https://web.archive.org/web/20161127012851/http://hallman.org/bolger/isometrics.html
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Phil_Bolger
BTW, a few days ago I was looking again at your old Brick page... I will probably go with stretched fold-up or demountable stack-up Tortoise tender though to carry in van about 7ft long in the back with plenty of width and height. Chappelle produced a similarly flat transomed garvey at 14ft LOA and 40in chine beam, "Mule", that is so close in dimensions and lines but a far more complicated old style build. He actually does give detailed instructions in how to expand the side planking, a bit of a course in drafting, but the sheet with the figure he constantly refers to has gone missing! Are you still in East Africa?
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/topics/68428
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/files/Mouser/
https://www.woodenboatstore.com/product/Boat_Design_Quarterly_Vol_13-DIGITAL
http://buildboats.freezoy.com/bbapcatfishbc.html?i=1
On Tuesday, 8 May 2018, 1:12:35 pm AEST, owlnmole@... [bolger] <bolger@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 May 2018, 1:12:35 pm AEST, owlnmole@... [bolger] <bolger@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
What ever happened to Bruce Hallman's great site of Bolger renderings? It now appears to be just spam.
http://hallman.org/bolger/isometrics.html
Cheers, all, from an old friend,
Matthew
What ever happened to Bruce Hallman's great site of Bolger renderings? It now appears to be just spam.
http://hallman.org/bolger/isometrics.html
Cheers, all, from an old friend,
Matthew