So, working through the checklist we come to shoal draft… The first Loose Moose drew all of a foot when the dagger board was up and Loose Moose 2 drew just 18 inches. Both boats taught me an awful lot about why real shoal draft makes sense where a VolksCruiser is concerned. For starters, it …
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 …
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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Our CAL 34 has a draft of 4′ 8″ or thereabouts and a lot of folks might actually think of that as being “shoal draft”… I don’t. Our last boat, Loose Moose 2, drew a kiss over one foot and the previous Loose Moose only drew one foot (as in 12 inches)… So, from where …
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 …
Here’s a couple of designs worth thinking about… When we were living in France, I seriously considered building a Maurice Griffiths Waterwitch but balked at the idea because, at 30 feet, it seemed too big. Obviously, a mistake on my part… But not a bad design for those looking for a VolksCruiserish shoal draft boat.
There’s a beat up fixer-upper for sale down here that I’ve had my eye on for a while… a Kenner Skipjack to be precise. As boats go, it is something of an odd duck… Of course, half the reason for my interest is the word “skipjack” which is a hull form that makes all kinds …
Jim Michalak is a designer who took Phil Bolger’s “Instant Boats” to heart and for years has been churning out various designs in the genre. Lots have been built and those using them have been happy. He’s also written a book “Boatbuilding for Beginners” on building boats of the mainly “Instant” variety which would be …
A good deal on a Bolger AS-29 sharpie…
