Since we were talking about cats…
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 …
a few words on my anti-cat/tri agenda….
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… …
Because quite a few people just asked what a Centaur costs…
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 …
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Small & simple…
Yann Quenet shows us how it’s done… Kinda makes all sorts of sense.
Just a couple of boats in an anchorage…
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 …
the big problem…
There’s a guy who writes from time to time wanting my opinion on various boats he’s considering and, to be honest, I quite look forward to his emails because he has a good eye for boats but avoids being stuck in a rut. You might say he’s all over the place and not the same …
and because simple really is simple…
Over at TriloBoat Talk, Dave Z has a must read post that anyone contemplating building or rehabbing a cruising boat should read… I’ll wait. I’ll go against the prevailing wisdom and point out that it’s really pretty easy to build or rehab a boat and well within the abilities of anyone who can chew gum …