Bolger tennessee boat plans. the tennessee riverboat design is one of many from the prolific usa designer phil bolger (google for sites, including five ones on yahoo.groups). it is designed for the home builder, using simple shapes in marine ply to create an effect reminiscent of the 1930s... I became captivated by the last line in sam rable’s delightful book “ boat building in your own backyard”. in closing he remarks , “i’m going to build me a new boat and feel young again.” oh, how that line obsessed me. going thru the stack of plans i’d bought over the years we settled on “tennessee” , another bolger design.. In the 1970s, phil bolger began a long and successful collaboration with harold 'dynamite' payson with bolger designing the boats and payson building them as well as selling plans and writing books about how to do it. 'dynamite' called the first series of easy-to-build plywood boats "instant boats"..
The bolger boats plans list. a-e. f-k. l-p. q-u. v-z. philip c bolger passed away in may 2009 after providing the world with many delightful plans.. plans contact: susanne altenburger phil bolger & friends inc. 66 atlantic street gloucester, ma 01930-1627 usa. Simple potential live aboard boat for lakes and rivers. covers ground fast and quietly under modest 15 to 30hp. derived from the riverboat work by phil bolger. the advantage of this version over the original tennessee is that the plan has more detail and the hull has a double floor to allow services (electrical, plumbing and tankage) to. Sneakeasy is a 26 foot phil bolger "power sharpie", a simple flat-bottomed craft (at least in it's initial conception), which phil advances as a very efficient power boat, but which also retains essential elements of the period elegance of some early 20th century speedboats..
