Beachcomber/Boler

One weekend, two completely different towns, two separate provinces, lots of distance between and two totally different little fibreglass trailers spotted out in the wild. First, it’s a rather uncommon Beachcomber seen down some side street in East Coulee Alberta, out in the scenic Badlands of the Red Deer River Valley. And next it’s a thirteen foot Boler found in Kindersley Saskatchewan in some storage lot, locked up as though some wild animal on display at the zoo. They need to run free folks and not be caged!

We don’t see Beachcombers often – this is the fourth we’ve seen in all our years doing this. That’s some big points in the Boler spotting game, which takes in all small Boler-like trailers. One day, by the way, we’ll publish those rules. They’re still evolving you know. The best we can tell Beachcombers were made from about 1974-ish to 1980-ish (data’s a bit scarce) in Manitoba. They’re quite a bit more square than Bolers, which makes IDing them pretty easy. This one’s tarped, suggesting a roof leak. We saw another so covered years ago (link below) so perhaps it’s a design issue with them?

The Boler seen is an earlier model so no later than about the mid-1970s or so. We can tell by the metal badge seen just above the window (a bit hard to see). Later examples had a sticker instead.

Another tarped Beachcomber (with a different window layout)…
Not a Boler – a Beachcomber.

Boler: A small cute-as-a-bug fibreglass travel trailer made in Canada in the 1970s and 80s. We make a fun game spotting them on road trips and adventures. We also include other similar trailers here, those from other manufacturers who are close in appearance or configuration to Bolers.

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Big points…it’s a Beachcomber!

Caged as though some animal in a zoo.