I’ve always thought that Bill Lapworth’s CAL 28 is a great boat. It’s always been on my nearly perfect VolksCruiser list as it embodies excellent performance, a good quality build, and it’s affordable. As it happens, a new (to me at least) channel on YouTube recently did a video on a CAL 28 that’s for sale that …
A family of six on an engineless Ericson 28. Most certainly a channel I’ll be following.
WoodenBoat has an excellent article “A Sound boat and Simple Living” for you to read online of the VolksCruiserish sort. You’re still here?
Peter from WindPilot has an excellent post on pocket cruisers and self-steering that you might want to check out.
The world falling apart has put the Ranger 26 into VolksCruiser on the back burner for a bit. But, in the meantime, I’ll tease you with a possible variation of how the finished boat might wind up as… …a junk. More. hopefully, soon come. Stay safe.
A VolksCruising, Blue Water TriloBoatBy Dave Zeiger at triloboats.blogspot.com Full disclosure… Anke and my blue water experience is entirely vicarious. I do not recommend a TriloBoat to venture far offshore as I lack blue-water performance data. I can confidently say a TriloBoat hull wouldn’t be the worst choice. A good design, built robustly and competently …
A guest post from Dave Zeiger on a VolksCruising TriloBoat… Read More »
So, the other day, a reader of this blog dropped me a line asking… “What do you think the best VolksCruiser design to build is?” Which, sorta/kinda, stopped me in my tracks. First of all, I don’t really truck all that well with the concept of “best” where boats are concerned. It’s a fool’s game …
So here’s a sketch from Michael (you know the Proa guy) to give you an idea what the first few projects entail… The first order of business is to downsize the companion way and reduce some of the cockpit’s floodable volume. As you can see, we’re talking super simple as it’s just filling up a …
One of the reasons I like the Ranger 26 is that it’s a very sensible design and not a whole lot needs to be fixed or improved. The open transom outboard motor arrangement is simple and works, the layout in the cockpit is comfortable, and the rig is non-problematic. That said, it could use a …
Ranger 26: Breaking down the problems and needful things 2… Read More »
Some interior musings. When looking at the Ranger 26 a few things cry out for attention. Most notably the galley, or should we say the lack of a galley, situation. Everybody needs to eat and anyone living on a frugal cruising budget is going to be cooking most all of their meals aboard so it …
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