I’ve been watching this boat on the market for a while… and why it has not been snapped up in an instant is something of a riddle to me. Sure it’s small but back when we spent a year in the Canary Islands there was a Storfidra 25 with a young family aboard who’d sailed …
Practical Boat Owner tests the junk and Bermudean rig the way it should be done… Good stuff and you can read it online here.
Logic is a funny thing… Especially when it’s connected with boats. For instance, a friend recently wrote about changing a gaff cat rigged boat into a junk schooner. His reasons for such a conversion were listed as the single sail was too big to be easily handled, possibly better balance of the schooner rig, and …
So, let’s say the guy selling the skipjack were to lower the price by 33% which would make it a whole lot more attractive… Obviously a cheap boat has issues and needs stuff fixed, replaced, and upgraded and that costs money and that can get seriously nuts. For instance, it’s a given that the sails …
The successful VolksCruiser is not just about spending less for stuff. A lot of it has to do with thinking how sailboats work. That said, if you actually suss out how/why sailboats work and act on your findings. It’s a pretty safe bet that you’ll wind up saving money if you do. For instance, you’d …
