Cheap Multis and Projects

[Therapy]

Originally Posted by NevilleCat

Are you thinking of Bumfuzzle?
A Wildcat, a Shionning design built in Sth Africa.

That's it!
Thanks. This aging thing is really depressing.

[ausnp84]

Originally Posted by Therapy

That's it!
Thanks. This aging thing is really depressing.

Indeed... but you remembered the key bits! That Wildcat was a bag of spanners (well, one hull anyway) and my hat goes off to Pat and Ally for getting it around the world. The fact they had it surveyed professionally and it STILL had major issues goes to show with boats, anything can happen....

N

[Therapy]

I actually looked at one on FL east coast. This after reading for years on CF. Including Pat and Ally's story. Yep. Lots of balsa core problems......and others.
I learn a lot by reading other peoples experiences.
And CF is so good to all.

[Wannabes00n]

Wilson's Legacy, Roger Simpson 45', is up for sale again.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1560974034046556/

[Franziska]

Originally Posted by Wannabes00n

Wilson's Legacy, Roger Simpson 45', is up for sale again.



https://www.facebook.com/groups/1560974034046556/

Cool boat, shame I am in the wrong spot.

[longjonsilver]

Probably the nicest lines of any trimaran i have seen but too big and too much work for me. She looks like she is sitting low on the water and yet lightly loaded at this point. Were extra layers of glass put on? Were her scantlings up sized? Dunno

jon

[Sand crab]

This one is kinda cheap and it will be a project.
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/200...n-570-8116603/

[CaptainRivet]

Originally Posted by Sand crab

This one is kinda cheap and it will be a project.
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/200...n-570-8116603/

some tlc and upgrad for cheap 265k$
sure some polish will do

[Sand crab]

Here's a 40' aluminum cat in Texas for $35,000. It's "interesting". Actually I remember it being for sale recently.
https://www.sailboatlistings.com/view/94066

[yan23]

The aluminum costs more than that.

[mako]

Is there some law that homemade metal boats have to have very ugly and uncreative deckhouses?

[yan23]

Deck house is easy to redesign.
Of i sell mine ..i would buy it sight unseen.
Even 100 miles from ocean.
I would cut to tansport.

[owly]

Originally Posted by mako

Is there some law that homemade metal boats have to have very ugly and uncreative deckhouses?

To me it looks imminently practical...... not pretty, but the vertical windows are a huge asset. Most cats are greenhouses that soak up heat with their sloped windows, and don't give good view. This one may be square and ugly, but you can see where you are going and aren't living in a solar oven. There's a reason commercial fishing boats have the kind of windows they have.



Here's an interesting catamaran built in the 70's with a similar deckhouse... Obviously a motor sailor.... an coastal live aboard sort of boat

[NevilleCat]

Forward cockpit too.

[snort]

....and there's one of those for sale pretty cheap!:
https://treasure.craigslist.org/boa/...418311022.html

But does it sail as well as a grand piano?