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… …
Just maybe, catamarans don’t have to be sillly expensive… Read about it here.
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 …
Michael Schacht of ProaFile has released a couple of interior renderings of “Herbie” his new in-progress proa design… Better yet, he’s hinted that a forty-foot version which, I expect, has some folks (myself included) doing the happy dance. For more info check out the continuing thread…
I like multihulls… The problem is in the cheap seats. There is very little available or suited to a person on a small budget. Multihulls are mostly impractical for the cruiser on a budget and, as no one seems to want to design for what would be a reasonably large niche, it does not look …
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 …
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 …
Yeah, what about multihulls in the whole VolksCruiser universe? Problematic at best as multihulls are just silly expensive. I see old Piver and Jim Brown trimarans at reasonable prices that make sense from time to time, the odd Wharram or other cat home-built with issues, but, to be truthful, on a VolksCruiser budget, multihulls are …
