Face it, the hardest part of doing the VolksCruiser thing is really about focus. It’s easy to get distracted. Pick up any sailing magazine, visit a cruising forum, or dock walk just about any marina and you’ll be inundated with a staggering amount of pressure to conform and purchase shiny things you don’t really need …
Some folks suggest that you have to have a dinghy like this with a 15hp motor… Sam Devlin tells you how to build a VolksCruiserish alternative with a couple of sheets of plywood and some epoxy.
Have you ever had one of those days? Maybe I should back up a little… For a while now I’ve felt that Boat Bits, VolksCruiser, Island Gourmand, and Fishing Under Sail could use a little work and a few tweaks in direction. The problem is it’s really hard to do a makeover while trying to …
So, there’s this boat that’s been for sale for a long, long time and the owner finally got serious and lowered the asking price to something that actually makes sense… The boat in question doesn’t have a mast, the motor might have last run some time in 2001, and it’s also a hurricane boat with …
So, here are a couple of out-of-the-box designs I really like… First up is by Michael Schacht of PROA File infamy so not exactly surprising it happens to be a Proa named “Herbie”. What impresses me off the mark is that in the proportions shown you won’t have to go up towards fifty-feet in length …
The other day I received an email from a reader who took exception with my “buy old boats and rehab” bias and went on to suggest that more posts be about building new boats of the VolksCruiserish ilk. He then went on to say that it would be even better if I concentrated on multihulls… …
Just a quick look at some Westerly Centaurs for sale show me an average asking price of $9199. That said, no one really ever pays asking price for a boat… So, let’s just peg the real world price (in the US of A) at somewhere around $7600 or about $1.14 a pound. Pretty much says …
Because quite a few people just asked what a Centaur costs… Read More »
Yann Quenet shows us how it’s done… Kinda makes all sorts of sense.
A while back, a guy I knew dropped me a line from Ushuaia down at the tip of South America and he was just a little bit perturbed. As it happens, the reason for his upset is that the boat anchored next to him was a Westerly Centaur, a 26-foot bilge keeled “family” cruiser, not …
