Going shopping yesterday I could not help but notice that the cost of nearly everything continues to go up… Onions a couple of months ago I was paying $.39 a pound were $.99 a pound… Yams which I’m used to paying $0.69 a pound are now $1.79… Scrag end stewing beef I would never ever …
I bought “Tiny Floating Homes” by Chris Troutner and read it over the weekend. It’s good. You should read it. Need I really say more?
Just about everywhere I look there are opportunities to get afloat in good boats for not very much… For instance, today over on Sailboat Listings there’s an Alberg 35 project boat with an asking price of $900. While it needs a lot of sweat equity and some money/materials thrown at it, considering that the lead …
So, about that Westsail 32 project question… Buy the $50K boat and sail off into the sunset. Buy the $30K boat do the needful TLC and sail off into the sunset. Buy the $30K boat do a major refit to the tune of a few years and $66K and sail off into the sunset. Buy …
The other day while I was comparing various “classic plastic” designs I had a bit of a eureka moment… Most of these boats are built like frelling tanks! In the various boats I was looking at, almost none of the interior structure was actually… well, the best word to describe it, would be, structural. Or, …
Looking at some boat ads this morning I found this bit of craziness… $28,000 its a steal at this price; spent 62,000 on it Refering to a 35 year old Hunter 37 for sale. The thing is, I see people pouring copious amounts of money into boats in ways that don’t make any kind of …
So, there’s this dismasted Endeavour 32 with a dead engine that’s sorta/kinda for sale here that would make a good candidate to turn into a VolksCruiser… It’s a Ted Irwin design which, before Endeavour bought the molds, was called the Irwin 32. All in all not a bad design. Of course, the problem with any …
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 …
I came across this in a boat classified yesterday… This is a beautifully restored 1973 GulfStar 41 that has 130k invested in it. Have receipts. Selling for 60K obo. So, let’s say the boat is actually worth $60K (though I have my doubts having seen quite a few Gulfstar 41s in good/great shape for a …
Because, if you’re smart, a used boat rehab project is not a hole in the water… Read More »
So, back to the Columbia 26. As the previously mentioned list shows, there is really not a lot I’d change but a couple of things do come to mind. Mainly the rudder, propulsion system, and rig. Today, because they are somewhat related projects, we’ll focus a little on propulsion and the rudder. Having looked at …
