Boats with an Open Mind

<p>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. <p>Bolger is an eloquent writer and his comments run the gamut from hilarious to profound.--<i>The Ensign</i> <p>Bolger brings a kind of youthful feeling to yacht design--he would rather make precedent than follow it.--<i>WoodenBoat</i> <p>Bolger has a way of seducing even the lay reader into thinking about and beginning to understand boat design.--<i>Cruising World</i> <p>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.--<i>Boatbuilder</i>