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Multihulls
on down vs right…
It’s been pointed out to me recently that my interest in buying an old classic plastic catamaran could be all sorts of problematic. The fact that a small cat is small, has less room for stuff, and is disadvantageous in terms of carrying weight, is not something I was unaware of. The funny thing was …
a deal or not?
So, there’s a 32′ Piver trimaran for sale in California with a listed price of $19.5K. From the looks of the pictures it’s in fairly good shape. Though no interior pictures or mention whether or not the inboard engine works. The boat was built in 1973. The basic equation of a cruising multihull for $19.5K …
James Wharram is no longer with us…
Damn. Just possibly the father of the VolksCruiser concept and a revolutionary who completely changed the face of sailing is no longer with us.
a favorite catamaran…
The Pat Patterson designed Heavenly Twins is just possibly the best bang for the buck of any catamaran ever built. With a street price these days of less than $20K there’s a lot to be said for an under 30-foot catamaran that sleeps six. At least a couple of this design have successfully circumnavigated and …
More on affordable multihulls…
Multihulls are HIP and as a result multihulls demand a higher price and this includes used boats. Which, I suppose, is good news if you happen to be selling a catamaran but bad news if you want to buy one. In my opinion, multihull prices are mostly inflated and don’t quite reflect their actual value. …
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… …