Back when I was building a catamaran in France just about everyone I knew (and many I did not) shared their opinions that catamarans were a death trap. Yachting Monthly, PBO, Sail, and Cruising World were all running articles and editorials telling me that cats were just not the sort of boat any sane person …
Yann Quenet’s Skrowl 900 is something of a TARDIS when it comes to the most livability and comfort in a minimal envelope (just under 30-feet) shoal draft world cruiser. Pretty much everything I want in my next boat.
Certainly not the same old same. There’s more info on the boat on the Oddity blog and Yachting Monthly that’s worth checking out.
Here’s an interesting design I’ve long admired… The Clipper Marine 32 is a Bill Crealock design that I’ve always liked in spite of the fact that I most detest center cockpit designs. The shoal draft version only draws 3 foot six inches and it has an transom hung rudder that could easily be adapted to …
I saw a Kirie Elite for sale in Edmonds Washington state going for a silly price ($1.2K). I have something of a sweet spot for this particular design as I saw it at a Paris boat show and it just felt like it would be a great boat. It was quite roomy for its size, …
There’s a J-29 up in the frozen north that I’ve been thinking about quite a bit. For those unacquainted with the design it looks something like this… It, like most of it’s J-Boat brethren, is a boat designed and built to be competitive so you may be wondering why the hell am I looking at …
Yesterday I heard that Charlie Morgan was no longer with us and it got me thinking about some of his designs. While there’s something about the look of his Out Island series that sorta/kinda rubbed me the wrong way there’s no denying that they are prime candidates for VolksCruising. Just take a look at the …
Here’s a boat I’ve always liked. It’s the Chris Craft Pawnee and it is a very cool little cruising boat. Sadly they only built them for a year so did not make a lot of the excellent Sparkman & Stephens design. As it happens there’s one for sale in Hawaii if anyone’s interested.
Every once in a while I’ll see a Bristol 26 (aka Sailstar 26) for sale for a good price and it gets me thinking. Back when I was in Paris looking for a boat to buy. The sailboat in my head that I was looking for was a European facsimile of the Halsey Herreshoff Bristol …
An important point, the sort of project we need more of, and P-22 is no longer with us… Tad Roberts (one of my favorite designers) currently has a catamaran review in the new Wooden Boat Magazine which you might want to check out. It certainly got my attention. The cat in question is Mike Waller’s …
and in the “Because not everyone wants to build a fifty-foot catamaran” department… Read More »
