Dock Ranger

15 October 2024     0 comments

Madness For Sale

Pacific Proa MADNESS is for sale.

The seller says: This boat is a coastal cruiser capable of speeds in excess of 20kts and effortlessly matches or exceeds wind speed in most conditions. MADNESS was professionally built by Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC) and Sea Island Boatworks under the designer John Harris’s supervision. Completed and painted with Awlgrip in 2011. This is the prototype and Hull #1 for CLC’s line of Pacific Proa…

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Proa Madness

17 March 2023     1 comments

Russell Brown designed proa for sale

Areté (ex CIMBA, Pacific Bee), a 38’ Russell Brown designed Pacific Proa is for sale. The ply/epoxy boat is said to be in excellent condition and ready for its next adventure. Currently lying in Chilean Patagonia, at Chiloé Island.

Length: 38’/11.6m
Beam: 18’/5.5m
Displacement: 5512 lb./2500 kg
Launched: 1984
Overall condition: Excellent and ready to go.
Notable voyages: Chilean Patagonia, Chiloe Island, Fjords several times.

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Arete

04 February 2023     3 comments

Miss Cindy For Sale

Miss Cindy, the famous micro-cat cruiser is for sale on Salt Spring Island, B.C. for $3500 US, with her 2 hp Yamaha 2-cycle outboard and a custom trailer.

Designed and built by Tony Bigras in 2008, the 16’ pocket yacht carried Tony on an epic 6000 mile cruise down the Pacific coast of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Read the captain’s log here: Travels with Miss Cindy.

Miss Cindy features a very cool rig: a biplane lug.…

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Miss Cindy

22 November 2020     3 comments

Kergomard 35’ prao for sale

The proa JO-D by Denis Kergomard is available for full or half ownership here. It’s a beautiful boat, designed to sail as an Atlantic proa, but with the ability to sail with the ama to windward, and to tack as well as shunt. Google translate offers:

Magnificent prao of 10.50 built by the workshop of the meridian in composite sandwich pvc glass polyester and cp / glass / carbon / epoxy. The build and design quality is superb. The boat…

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Prao Jos'toy

20 July 2020     12 comments

Gaia’s Dream For Sale

Gaia’s Dream, the 71’ Pacific cargo proa we have reported on before, is up for sale in New South Wales, Australia for AU $79,000 (about US $55,300). Or rather it was - it is now listed as sold! Apparently the proa myth that you get more boat for the money is actually true in this case. Originally, Yvette Ini Wijnen had designed the boat with a fore and aft canting mast that ran on a curved track, to allow the CE to shift forward during…

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Gaia's Dream

24 March 2019     0 comments

Buccaneer 33 seeking captain

This 1987 Crowther Buccaneer 33 is an unusual find for the Pacific Northwest. According to the listing it was built in 1987 of wood/glass/epoxy and stretched two feet to 35.

Spring is here! Just in time for R2AK, you can race to Alaska, and win.

Find it here on Craigslist for $18,500 in Poulsbo, WA. Some assembly required.

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Crowther Buccaneer 33

02 September 2018     2 comments

Pacific Proa for sale

Here is a rare bird: a 6m (19’-8”) sailing proa for sale. Rigged as a schooner with free-standing masts, the seller states the boat features kick-up rudders, solar-electric propulsion system (range 20+ km), yuloh, ground tackle, easy motion while sailing, fast in light winds, sleeping space for one, maybe two, ample storage lockers, watertight bulkheads, launch carts for vaka and ama, disassembles for transport or storage, sailable as…

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LOL proa beach cruiser

19 March 2018     0 comments

Pete Hill’s KD10 biplane junk rig cat

Pete Hill’s 33’ cat ORYX is now for sale. The 33’ plywood/epoxy design is a modified Bernd Kohler KD10 that features a modern aero-junk rig, according to the seller.

She is a seaworthy boat having sailed 40,000 miles from England to New Zealand via the South Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Tasmania.
I’ve built and lived aboard several over the last 40 years, and sailed 1000’s of sea miles. Oryx is the culmination of that experience.

The…

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Oryx

11 February 2018     2 comments

Echo class trimaran ‘MOBY’ by Dick Newick

A nearly complete 38’ Echo class trimaran by Richard Newick has become available in NSW Australia. Deceased Qantas First Officer and boat builder Graham Murray’s family must liquidate the project. Built of foam sandwich with carbon reinforcement, the boat was lengthened to 38’ during construction.

The listing also includes fittings and equipment, all new: outboard motor, mast, boom, rudder, tiller, winches, sails, hatch covers,…

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Newick Echo class trimaran

21 May 2017     0 comments

Original Polycon 35 in Newport Beach

The original CSK Polynesian Concept 35 is for sale in Newport Beach, CA. This boat was designed and built for Buddy Ebsen, the actor and TV star best remembered for his role as Jeb Clampett in the CBS sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. The listing dealer appears to be banking on the star power of the yacht, but the listing is still worth a look due to the good photos.

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CSK Polynesian Concept 35