SUSTAINABILITY noun The ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed. Environmental Science: The quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance: The committee is developing sustainability standards for products that use energy. The other day I found myself trying to explain the idea …
As it happens, I really enjoy building boats.I find the whole process of boat construction both a creative outlet and deeply satisfying on an emotional level. That being the case, I often recommend to a lot of folks that they might want to think twice before building a cruising boat because there’s a steep learning …
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 …
I’ve always thought that Bill Lapworth’s CAL 28 is a great boat. It’s always been on my nearly perfect VolksCruiser list as it embodies excellent performance, a good quality build, and it’s affordable. As it happens, a new (to me at least) channel on YouTube recently did a video on a CAL 28 that’s for sale that …
A family of six on an engineless Ericson 28. Most certainly a channel I’ll be following.
Peter from WindPilot has an excellent post on pocket cruisers and self-steering that you might want to check out.
The world falling apart has put the Ranger 26 into VolksCruiser on the back burner for a bit. But, in the meantime, I’ll tease you with a possible variation of how the finished boat might wind up as… …a junk. More. hopefully, soon come. Stay safe.
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 …
A guest post from Dave Zeiger on a VolksCruising TriloBoat… Read More »
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 …
