A couple of weeks ago someone wrote and told me he’d looked for a possible VolksCruiserish boat and there was just nothing around… Fact is, everyday I scan Sailboatlistings.com, my local Craigslist, and keep my ear open to the coconut telegraph. It’s not hard and only takes a few minutes but there are always a …
Looking at some boat ads this morning I found this bit of craziness… $28,000 its a steal at this price; spent 62,000 on it Refering to a 35 year old Hunter 37 for sale. The thing is, I see people pouring copious amounts of money into boats in ways that don’t make any kind of …
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I’ve been waiting on a quote for a forty-foot section of mast extrusion for the Endeavour but, as expected the rigging company who happens to be the purveyor of said extrusion… Boy do I hate dealing with some marine businesses. It’s not that I can’t live with slow and inept but do admit to a …
So, there’s this dismasted Endeavour 32 with a dead engine that’s sorta/kinda for sale here that would make a good candidate to turn into a VolksCruiser… It’s a Ted Irwin design which, before Endeavour bought the molds, was called the Irwin 32. All in all not a bad design. Of course, the problem with any …
Phil Bolger once told me when I asked him to design Loose Moose 2 that he was currently swamped with design work and, at best, it would take him at least a couple of years to find a hole in his schedule big enough to design it. He then added that, as I knew what …
Boat design and boatbuilding are not exactly rocket science… Rocket Crash by sonicbomb And, just maybe, that is no bad thing. That said, it would be a very good thing to do your homework on the subject of boat design and the practicalities of putting a boat together before you embark on any major boatbuilding …
Here’s something important to keep in mind… Boat plans are not a sacred text and you can change them as much as you like as long as you realize that if your changes/modifications/cunning plans result in a clusterfuck of a boat it’s all your fault. With me so far? Here’s something else you need to …
For starters there will be several more posts on the Laura Cove 28 as well as a couple other boats I’ll be comparing it to and, just maybe, something out in left field as far as VolksCruisers go. In the meantime I need to look at and do some research on an idea that seemed …
The hardest part of the whole VolksCruising gig is not about storms at sea, pirates, dealing with bureaucrats in exotic locales, or the problems presented by living on a minuscule budget… Nope, those things you can deal with. Problematic maybe, but the really big problem we all have to deal with is the stuff thang. …
