So, there’s this boat that’s been for sale for a long, long time and the owner finally got serious and lowered the asking price to something that actually makes sense… The boat in question doesn’t have a mast, the motor might have last run some time in 2001, and it’s also a hurricane boat with …
To steal a line from Dickens… “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” From where I sit those words have a lot to do with the current state of affairs where boats are concerned. I’m not sure if …
It’s interesting what will send folks to their keyboards to tell me I’m misinformed.This week’s trigger word seemed to be 20-feet. So, here’s a layout for a 20-foot sailboat you could easily cruise in… The boat in question is the Pop 20 from BG Yacht Design… It’s a pretty cool boat. Somewhere between a CAL …
So… The Columbia 26 MK2’s rig works. Not a lot of ways you could actually improve it and if I came across one with a rig in good shape I’d leave it just like it is. Really. It does not need bigger more expensive winches, have it’s lines led aft to the cockpit, or a …
A reader of VolksCruiser just wrote to mention he picked up a CAL 27 for $300 and that it floats right side up… Lots and lots of deals out there. So, what are you waiting for?
I see a lot of boats for sale… Hardly surprising because in a bad economy/faux recovery world there are simply a lot of folks who can’t afford to have a boat. So, as a result, a lot of them are selling them for pennies on the dollar. For us, dear reader, this is no bad …
Someone wrote and asked me what I thought of an older Columbia 34 selling for cheap the other day… It’s not a bad boat at all. Of course, being cheap with an asking price of less than $7K (around 62-cents a pound) makes it a whole lot more interesting as well. Even if you needed …
A while back we were talking about the cost of boats and boat building and how it could be best expressed in terms of cost per pound/displacement… So, the other day I came across a Pearson 303 selling for $5000. The boat is not in bad shape, has new sails, and like all boats it …
I like cheap boats… Truth is, if I see two boats for sale, one a beat up old CAL or some such and a pristine Swan or Hallberg Rassy, I go right to the beater. I suspect the reason behind it is the cheap fixer-upper gives me a sense of freedom… My dad used to …
The most asked question to this blog is… What’s the perfect/best VolksCruiser? So, here’s the answer… It doesn’t exist and it never will. Sadly, words like “perfect” and “best” are more a selling point rather than a real thing and if you’re going to be doing the VolksCruiser thing successfully, you’ll have to lose the …
