So, the other day, someone asked me what I thought of the Amel 60 which someone was touting as the perfect/ultimate cruising boat somewhere or other. I’ll admit that it caused me to ponder a bit on a bunch of things to sort out an answer. First of all, it took me a while to …
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So, here’s a question… “What sort of VolksCruiser do you actually want?” Face it, everyone’s different with disparate needs and situations which means one’s VolkCruiser of choice may not be what others need or want. Which I suppose brings us to other questions we have to ask ourselves… “How are you going to use your …
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. …
This morning I read an article “10 Small Catamarans For Cruising” which ranged in price from $50K to $300K which seems to be somewhat out of reach of VolksCruiserish folk in spite of the fact that the boats in question, apparently, represent the affordable under 38-foot niche on the market. Kind of depressing reading as …
A great way to start the year
WoodenBoat has an excellent article “A Sound boat and Simple Living” for you to read online of the VolksCruiserish sort. You’re still here?
A VolksCruising, Blue Water TriloBoatBy Dave Zeiger at triloboats.blogspot.com Full disclosure… Anke and my blue water experience is entirely vicarious. I do not recommend a TriloBoat to venture far offshore as I lack blue-water performance data. I can confidently say a TriloBoat hull wouldn’t be the worst choice. A good design, built robustly and competently …
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So, the other day, a reader of this blog dropped me a line asking… “What do you think the best VolksCruiser design to build is?” Which, sorta/kinda, stopped me in my tracks. First of all, I don’t really truck all that well with the concept of “best” where boats are concerned. It’s a fool’s game …
So here’s a sketch from Michael (you know the Proa guy) to give you an idea what the first few projects entail… The first order of business is to downsize the companion way and reduce some of the cockpit’s floodable volume. As you can see, we’re talking super simple as it’s just filling up a …
So, a reader wrote me yesterday wishing happy holidaze, asking when I’d get around to some new posts of the VolksCruiser variety, and wanted my opinion of a boat (Ranger 26) he was considering. As it happens, there are actually four different 26’s Ranger built over the years designed by Gary Mull (who designed two), …
