<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>