an interesting catamaran…
A lot more interesting stuff on their website…
Catamarans
A cat that would make a great VolksCruiser…
A very long time ago, a good friend had an Iroquois catamaran and used to rave about what a great boat it was…Yesterday, looking at current Iroquois cats for sale, I have to admit he was right with an additional insight that they’ve also held up extremely well. Not a big cat at 30 feet …
Since we were talking about cats…
So, here are a couple of out-of-the-box designs I really like… First up is by Michael Schacht of PROA File infamy so not exactly surprising it happens to be a Proa named “Herbie”. What impresses me off the mark is that in the proportions shown you won’t have to go up towards fifty-feet in length …
a few words on my anti-cat/tri agenda….
The other day I received an email from a reader who took exception with my “buy old boats and rehab” bias and went on to suggest that more posts be about building new boats of the VolksCruiserish ilk. He then went on to say that it would be even better if I concentrated on multihulls… …
An interesting link…
Just maybe, catamarans don’t have to be sillly expensive… Read about it here.
A reality based multihull..
Yesterday while running errands we noticed a new boat in the anchorage… A very nice example of a Wharram Tiki 30. What a great boat… Rowing by I was struck with just how much sense it makes and what a great design it is. Sure, it might not be everything you want in a boat …
A neat cat and a thought…
Kurt Hughes, a multihull designer I admire, had an interesting post on his blog about a couple building one of his 30-foot cruising cats… It’s a pretty cool cat in the minimalist vein and I like it. Fact is, I can’t imagine a better 30-foot cat for cruising in. That said, sadly, it’s not really …
It’s the price dude…
Yesterday’s mailbag was sorta interesting so maybe a good time to set the record straight. First of all, I like multihulls. Sure, I’m somewhat critical of a lot of modern low bridgedeck multihulls fobbed off on an unsuspecting public but, on the whole, I think multihulls make all kinds of sense when they are designed …