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Boats with an Open Mind: Seventy-Five Unconventional Designs and Concepts

by Philip C. Bolger

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A varied portfolio of boat-design concepts

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Awards & Recognition

  • Critical praise

    Cruising World praises the book’s accessibility

    Praises the book’s ability to engage lay readers with boat design.

AlbakiReads Editorial

A varied portfolio of boat-design concepts

Philip C. Bolger’s collection brings together 75 boat designs and concepts, ranging from six to 95 feet and spanning sail, power, and rowing craft. The examples connect each vessel’s form with a particular use: a planing microtrawler, a beachable birdwatching boat, an enclosed ocean-cruising rowboat, and sailboats designed to take the ground at low tide. The book offers a broad look at Bolger’s form-follows-function approach through distinct proposals rather than a single kind of boat. Its scope makes design choices and practical purposes the organizing thread, with boats presented across a notably wide range of sizes and activities.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Boat enthusiasts interested in a range of vessel types and uses.
  • Readers curious about boat design concepts and functional choices.
  • Those seeking an illustrated-style collection of sail, power, and rowing designs.

Themes

Boat designForm follows functionSailing, power, and rowing craftDesign for specific uses

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Book overview

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 Ensign

"Bolger brings a kind of youthful feeling to yacht design--he would rather make precedent than follow it."--WoodenBoat

"Bolger has a way of seducing even the lay reader into thinking about and beginning to understand boat design."--Cruising World

"Boat lovers who are used to designers who conceive the same boat over and over, camouflaged with a face-lifting here and there, will be amazed at Phil Bolger's diversity."--Boatbuilder

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