Island Tender by Phil Bolger
Drawn by Phil Bolger in 1958 and built by the Essex Shipyard in Essex, Massachusetts, this boat was intended to be used as an Island Tender carrying passengers and light cargo around St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Lightly built with a vee-bottom using sawn frames the hull is moderately deep and high-sided with a smallish deckhouse. While the smaller house on a big hull always looks best, sometimes Bolger was so busy being different that it gets in the way. There’s so much rigging round the cockpit here that the boom would be of limited use. And more sheltered seating in a slightly larger deckhouse might have helped her chosen role.
30′ overall with a 27’3″ designed waterline, beam is 12′ and designed draft 3′ at 8800 lbs displacement which sounds far too light. Power was to be a 100 HP Osco-Ford with 2:1 reduction giving a top speed of 16 knots at 2400 RPM. At that speed the 150 gallons of fuel would give a range over 450 miles in flattish water. The 150 square foot sail is intended purely to steady the boat in the steep chop between Islands.
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