Articles of category "Pocket cruisers"

It's all the boat you need! Pocket cruisers can combine the best of the classic lines of the seaworthy sloops of the turn of the century-and the quick-to-build, lightweight, low maintenance of modern materials. They are inexpensive and small enough to be single-handed yet meeting a lot of requirements. Pocket cruisers are often fanatics about their boats and for quite a number of reasons.

A Pocket cruiser, Microcruiser or Pocket yacht is a small sailboat with a cabin, whose length is at or under 20 feet (6 m), with some examples as short as 10 to 12 feet (3 to 3.7 m) in length. While many cruising sailors today jump with both feet and a hefty money clip into a big boat, chockablock with gadgetry, the traditional sailing evolution begins with small craft and ends with the ultimate cruiser. Small is usually simple. But how big is small? That, of course, is relative.