I have a nice handwritten letter from Bolger dated April 18, 1994. I had sent him a letter (after just building my "Nymph") talking about leeboards. I made mention of Reuel Parker's recent missive that spoke ill of leeboards. I must have mentioned my friend in CA with a Micro as well: Here tis: Dear Jerry, Thanks for the letter. I saw Parker's article and wrote a short answer to it to the effect that quite a few leeboards have been used over the years, including a few hundred Thames River Barges with 20' x 7' leeboards and two-man crews. I never could see any difference in the sailing of the single-leeboard Thomaston Galley and Dovekie, that I owned, from one tack to the other. What I did notice was that the two-leeboard production Dovekies were dead by comparison with the single-board prototype. Why this is so is conjecture. The trick to rowing a short, pot-bellied boat like Nymph is to keep the stroke short and quick. My Shoebox is the extreme example, but I once rowed an aluminum jon-boat over a hundred miles in five days that way with some help from a river's stream. I'll guess that your friend is trying to spin spin his Micro too fast, which the long-keeled boat doesn't like. Phil Bolger I am looking forward to possibly using my little Nymph as a tender for my soon-to-be-finished (said Bob) M-23. Jerry Wolczanski Warrenton, VA On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 13:24 -0400, htmills@zoominternet.net wrote:

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