a near perfect VolksCruiser…
A tour of an Alberg 30 with Atom Voyager.
Affordable cruisers
on budgets and boat bucks…
Good Old Boat has an article on the subject of Boat Bucks and it got me thinking… I suspect that if you read VolksCruiser you’re on a tight budget or looking for ways to make cruising more affordable or maybe you’re just slumming. It occurred to me that the biggest problem of the VolksCruiser gig …
A VolksCruiser of note…
I’ve long wanted to build a small canal cruiser for the time that I’m past my sailing days. Philip Thiel’s Joli Boat has always been at the top pf my list and a great example of getting the most livability into a 22’9″ X 8′ envelope. As it happens “Small Boats Magazine” has an excellent …
and in the “it doesn’t sink” department…
Back when I was living in France one of the designs that I seriously considered was the ETAP 23 for use as a minimal envelope blue water cruiser. For starters, it’s a nice little sailboat. All of the ETAP sailboats had a very nice look partly because of their excellent use of graphics and just …
What’s affordable?
Budget is a funny thing. Then again, when you think about it money being an artificial construct is also somewhat strange. My issue has a lot to do with the words we use when discussing budgets and money. Words like affordable. We all understand what the word means, but we also know it has a …
Regarding a pre-ARC Atlantic crossing of note…
I’m currently reading about a transatlantic voyage in the 60’s on a Gunter rigged Westerly 22. Color me impressed.
Some boats to keep in mind…
I saw a Freedom 25 for sale in Hawaii recently… It’s one of my favorite Gary Hoyt designs and, with an asking price of $5.8K it would make a very nice VolksCruiser. I expect, one might be able to get it for a bit less. The smaller Freedoms by their very nature are really great …
When a $175,000.00 boat is considered cheap-seats…
The current issue of Blue Water Sailing (not a magazine I read on a regular basis) has an article on “New Cruising Boats” and it seems that the cheapest boat listed is about $175,000.00 or so. Which, I’ll admit, does seem in the cheap-seats when compared to the boats on the list over a million …
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What it costs and empowerment from a surprising source….
In my RSS inbox today there was another “is the cruising life for you” themed podcast. Which apparently answers all your needful questions like “What’s it all going to cost?”. The thing is, I don’t feel the need to check out the podcast in question because it will just be a regurgitation of the same …
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a 26-foot project I’d be all over…
“One of the very best boats ever designed. I based a good part of my design work around the Haida 26. I love that boat.”… Robert Perry Robery Perry sure knows what he’s talking about. For a variety of reasons I monitor sailboats for sale in a few places and a 26-foot Haida in Washington State popped …