Once, a long time ago, I was a poor starving college student and found myself living on a CAL 20… Fact is, living on a CAL 20 was not such a bad thing and with a little creativity/zen was actually quite comfortable. Made better because the CAL 20 is a very capable boat and could …
Someone wrote and asked me what I thought of an older Columbia 34 selling for cheap the other day… It’s not a bad boat at all. Of course, being cheap with an asking price of less than $7K (around 62-cents a pound) makes it a whole lot more interesting as well. Even if you needed …
To answer an oft asked question about why I don’t do more detailed critiques of boats. I try not to be a critical kind of guy… Given the opportunity I’m much happier to point out something interesting in a boat rather than nitpick its design flaws, issues, or failings. That said, I have been known …
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…
Here’s a good example…
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 …
There’s a Columbia 26 for sale locally and I row past it just about every other day… The seller is currently asking too much, it’s beat up, and will take (maybe) too much work to make it an economic project at its current asking price. That said, it’s still one of the great small cruising …
I recently was looking at dinghy designs and this designers blurb caught my eye because he called his boat the anti-RIB. I like this guy! The boat in question is called “OONAGH” and here’s something from the study plans… “In traditional boating circles, it is a long cherished tradition to rail against inflatables, and there …
How, apparently, I’m not alone in my feeling towards RIBs… Read More »
The most asked question to this blog is… What’s the perfect/best VolksCruiser? So, here’s the answer… It doesn’t exist and it never will. Sadly, words like “perfect” and “best” are more a selling point rather than a real thing and if you’re going to be doing the VolksCruiser thing successfully, you’ll have to lose the …
The other day while I was shopping for groceries, a much talked about and often recommended book came to mind… The reason for such an event was my standing in front of the cabbages looking at the $1.19 a pound price. Seriously, $1.19 a pound for cabbage is frelling nuts! Hence my thoughts of “Sailing …
