Phil Bolger has died

One of the most innovative boat designers ever has killed himself-distraught at the onset of age related problems. He was a great man.....

Here is a moving post by Robert Perry:
http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=90905

Brief details from Susan Altenburger his partner here:

http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=97170

Some nice biographical type words here:

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/03/r/vintage/nquarterly/phil/bolger.htm

couple of excerpts...
"Some boats are better than others; but it's not important that they be better," he says in a conversation about the uses to which various types are put.

He means this "any sort of boat will do" in the general sense that a boat roughly suitable to its purpose can achieve its purpose, and in the social sense that it's good for people to enjoy themselves on the water whatever they're in, so long as they don't get drowned."