So, what is an affordable boat? While the prevailing wisdom appears to be that a boat should cost everything you have and more I’ll suggest a somewhat different formula… If you can’t pay cash for it and the required needful work, it’s too frelling expensive. Fairly simplistic is it not? For those who don’t quite …
Regarding budget and a couple of points that should have been on my list… Read More »
How big is it? It’s a question I hear all the time regarding boats. When I answer giving it’s displacement people tend to look at me as if I’m speaking a foreign language. Most people, when confronted with the task of choosing a boat think in terms of length, Which, considering that a lot of …
A very long time ago we were rafted up in Honfleur and got invited to have tea and cookies on a Westerly Tiger. It’s a nice memory of a half-dozen people chatting about boats inside a very nice, small boat. As it happens, I saw a Westerly Tiger for sale up in Seattle for $1K …
I get a lot of email pointing out that, as far as some are concerned, a good cheap boat is nearly impossible to find. So, let’s look at a good cheap boat… The boat in question is the first boat that caught my interest in the PNW Tempest search of Craig’s List for sailboats. Three …
and in the “no good cheap boats out there” department… Read More »
An Albin Ballad project worth checking out…
There’s a Beneteau 235 for sale here that caught my attention and got me thinking about what a great little cruising boat it would make. Now as far as French production boats go, I’ve never been a huge fan of the Beneteau boats preferring the Jeanneau designs back in the pre-conglomerate days. I expect …
Just about every Sunday I use Search Tempest to check out the cost of used boats under $5K on Craig’s List. It’s a cool search engine that allows one to check all the boats for sail on Craig’s List in the USA. I mention this because I keep hearing that the cost of used cars …
Atom Voyages does their thing on a Cape Dory 27.
I spend a lot of tie trying to come up with cunning plans where one can build a boat that works for less money which, I’ll admit if something of a frustrating addiction. Made worse as budget building stalwarts like plywood, lumber, and industrial epoxies keep going up in price. This last week I’ve been …
For me the whole budget thing is colored by something the great motion picture camera designer, Raoul Coutard, who designed the pivotal Eclair NPR said when someone asked him how to design a hand holdable self-blimped camera… “First, you start with a quiet camera.” Over the years I’ve found this bit of logic adaptable to …
