Why I find myself asking … “How would James Baldwin refit this boat?” Atom Voyages has always been the gold standard for refit videos. If you have an issue of what to do with your classic plastic project there’s a 99% chance that Atom Voyages has the answer. Nuff said.
Way back when I first started talking to Phil Bolger about possibly building a Loose Moose 2 he sent me a couple of cartoons (his description of a quick sketch to illustrate a point)… One was his breakdown schooner… The other was a design he was playing with for the guy who’d built the first …
I may have mentioned before how much I like Phil Bolger’s Jessie Cooper design. If you are looking for a VolksCruising design that gives you maximum bang for minimum bucks that is buildable in a short time frame, you’d have a difficult time finding better… That said, it’s not exactly an easy boat for most …
A good deal on a Bolger AS-29 sharpie…
For those of us on VolksCruiser budgets, it’s hard to argue with the fact that the best bang for the buck is going to be a sharpie… So here’s a great link to one in progress.
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 …
Having a couple of boat related blogs that tend to fixate on the less expensive side of things, I get quite a lot of mail of the “how-can-I-have-the-stuff-I-want-for-not-a-lot-of-money” sort. I’m pretty sure my answers to those folks are almost always disappointing because the words ‘want’ and the phrase ‘not a lot of money’ seldom, if …
Since we’re speaking of sharpies I really have to mention Phil Bolgers Breakdown Schooner… It’s always been one of my favorite love/hate designs and, as such, deserves a bit of discussion. Of course, it has a lot working for it… Shoal draft, reasonable accommodation, a low sorta/kinda tabernacled rig that stows within the length of …
When most people think of sharpies they think of something like this… Ted Brewer’s Mystic Sharpie Kind of neat, is it not? At 32′ it’s about what most people think a sharpie should be. Salty as all get out and for me the little Pinkyish detail from at the stern just kicks some serious butt… …
All boats have limitations and are going to be a compromise to some extent, it’s just part of the gig… Why should sharpies be an exception? Sharpies have two big advantages: they’re inexpensive/fast to build and they are very shoal draft. I’m not sure about you but I find those pretty frelling big advantages. In …
