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A Stephen Mini Cruiser (top) a Bolger Watevan (left) and Houseboat (right) that will help grace the 2005 Kingston Messabout with their presence. You're all invited! Sept. 7, 8 and 9, 2007
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I blame it all on www.amazon.com , that's were I first found Harold Payson's book "Build the New Instant Boats", filled with Phil Bolger & Friends easy to build designs.
It all started with a few heart attacks and a quad by-pass in the winter of '99-2000. I was laid up for weeks, feeling like a frog split open on a dissecting table, the internet was there. The great world-wide-waste of time beckoned. Dammit!
I had always been interested in boats, but never seriously considered building one. Payson and Bolger seduced me into thinking I could.
Or perhaps it was just the Tylenol 3's and rum. "Things go better with rum!" ought to be a Capt. Morgan advertising theme, or for West System Epoxy. Anyway, it worked!
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The magic of Bolger and the instant boats is that an incompetent carpenter who hasn't built anything since a crooked doghouse in high school, lo' those many years ago, can actually build and launch a unique, usable, safe and strong craft. I know, I did it, with a little help from my friends.
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Bruce Hector (left) and Trevor Lowe on "Knotty Nymph's" launch day July 2000 at Peter Music Boats in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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102 Fraser St. Kingston, ON Canada, K7K 2J2
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