Boats With An Open Mind: 75 Unconventional Designs And Concepts; Author: Bolger, Philip C.; Paperback

Author: Bolger, Philip C.
Paperback
420 pages
Published: January 1994
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
ISBN: 0070063761

Here are 75 novel and wonderful boats--some strange, some beautiful, all of them paragons of Philip Bolger's form-follows-function design philosophy. A planing microtrawler; a glass-galleried, beachable birdwatching boat; a fully enclosed ocean-cruising rowboat; cruising sailboats that take the ground at low tide; power, sail, and rowing boats from 6 to 95 feet--these are boats as only Bolger's unfettered imagination does them. This is the first collection of Bolger's work in almost 15 years. It is long overdue.Bolger is an eloquent writer and his comments run the gamut from hilarious to profound.--The EnsignBolger brings a kind of youthful feeling to yacht design--he would rather make precedent than follow it.--WoodenBoatBolger has a way of seducing even the lay