Affordable cruisers
A guest post from Dave Zeiger on a VolksCruising TriloBoat…
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 …
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Ranger 26: Breaking down the problems and needful things..
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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What everyone seems to do…
Have you noticed how many YouTube channels there are about people downsizing, buying a boat, fixing it up, and sailing off into the paradise of Patreon fueled bliss? If not, you really should check them out because they are very educational for the most part. One of the things you’ll notice is there seem to …
Regarding the word “CHEAP”…
Just this morning a reader of VolksCruiser wrote to tell me the problem with cheap boats is that they are more expensive in the long run and that, just maybe, I should focus on boats of a higher quality more expensive caliber. Because, you know, you get what you pay for. Oops, I just threw …
$0.20 a pound…
So this morning I noticed a Morgan 27 for sale for $1400 or best offer and a couple of things came to mind… First, that it was whole lot of boat for very little money and, secondly that it worked out to twenty cents a pound. Let me repeat that… $0.20 a pound! Truth be …