Bolger Micro

This is a Bolger Micro, a trailer-sailer with a shallow ballast keel, which gives the boat great stability and leaves the cuddy completely clear of obstruction. I acquired this boat nearly new but without its spars, sails, or keel, without some of its flotation, and with a companionway and hatch not according to plan. I have built the keel, with 420 lbs of lead in it, made a new hatch and slide, put in the flotation, provided spars, and had Douglas Fowler make new sails.




Moreover, I put a drop-axle on the trailer, lowering the trailer frame a full 8", so now this boat launches and retrieves as easily and shallowly as the centerboard and leeboard Bolger sailboats I have had. It floats on and off the trailer just before my car's rear wheels touch the water. These boats have been built all over the world. The sailing shot below is of a Micro sailing in South Australia. The shot of my daughter cutting up an apple in the cabin is meant to suggest how roomy the cabin is, with sitting headroom for tall people on two long wide berths, ample space between, and no obstructions. Boat comes with an 8-horse Honda 4-stroke running perfectly. I think this is a good deal at $7000, about half what it would cost to build one and finish and equip it as well. But I have found that the market thinks otherwise. Your problem, if you want this boat, is this: It's certainly going to cost you more than $5000, and how much more will depend on the state of my affections, and those of my family. If you will take it to St. John, USVI (where it would be a blast), and make it available to me for 10 days each April, $4000.

 



Comet

I have a nice wooden Comet with new sails, newly fiberglassed bottom, and new paint, which is serving very nicely at my family's camp -- kept at a mooring and sailed by whoever's there, a lot. I ought to sell it just the same, to keep up the business end of things. $2500with not-bad registered trailer that needs lights and new tires


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