Boat Design

an awesome VolksCruiser…

EBM saying what needs to be said, a depressing situation, and in the “Your elected reps at work” department… Over the last decade or so, the HIP choice for cruising boats are the Amel or just about anything with two hulls. This popularity has a lot more to do with so-called Influencers than it does …

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an answer of sorts…

The return of child labor, a podcast I’ll be following, and in the “crime pays” department… Someone asked me the other day what boat I’d buy if money were not an issue and, while it’s a silly question, I did do some thinking. In fact, I did a lot of thinking. It turns out that …

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Did someone say scow?

Some needful reading, enabling billionaire sewage, and in the “Wouldn’t surprise me at all‘ department… Eric Henseval has a pretty neat scow you might want to take a look at… It’s the DIVINITÉ 7m expé and well worth a bit of study. At just under 24 feet, this scow really packs in a huge amount …

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about “that” dinghy…

The other day, I was informed that the hip dinghy that will be the new standard is the OC 330. Of course, being enamored of cool dinghies, I searched out Offshore Cruising Tenders and found a sorta/kinda dinghy that really did not impress me. My first impression was that it’s a RIB meets plywood stitch …

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