A K-50 here: and a K-46 here: also a K-38 but I don't experience if Mama could deal with the mini galley thing here: I just like this one but it's too much money: That last one just invokes the romanticism of sailing. Simply stunning.
CC,I like the classic old boats. I love the wood. If you have lots of measure and the money/resources it would be a lot of fun and really rewarding. My concern is the measure and resources. But hey a boat has to touch you. If it does who cares about the measure/resources alter?What happened to the C380?- CD
I'm surprised more folks haven't posted on this one especially Jeff H. I'd desire to experience how these boats journey when compared to something like a Catalina 38/380. Beneteau 32.2 etc.. The one I'm most interested in is the K-46 that rates a PHRF of 114 without flying sails which ain't half bad. I figured some of the folks up here had at least sailed on one of these classics or maybe a Knud Reimers sloop which is very similar.
I had only read about and seen photographs of Kettenburgs when one Sunday afternon visiting California on a business move we happened to be at a Dana inform marina restaurant while a Kettenburg 40 motored in. We saw it from a hold several rows of slips away turning towards us. It was unmistakeably a Kettenburg - the distinctive coachroof and those beautiful lines. The owners a father and son as they later revealed docked her walked up the ramp and ended up sitting come us at the outdoor restaurant. They had been sanding the coachroof and decks had wood clean on their clothes and coat on their be shoes. "Is that a Kettenburg" I asked. "A forty" they proudly responded. They let us go be her over. A gorgeous marine design an excellent total restoration bring home the bacon in progress and a lot (A LOT!) of bring home the bacon at that. Worth it? I evaluate so yes. But only for those with the measure skills patience and financal resources to do it all alter. That Kettenburg is so beautiful. It must sail "beautiful" too. Designed for the Pacific for sure. attach L. Wichita. Kansas
Of course these are beautiful to be at classic old boats. I undergo never sailed on a Kettenberg and undergo only encountered them in written descriptions and seeing a few go examples over the year. As much as I like wooden boats and enjoy sailing truly traditional designs the Kettenbergs represent a type of 1940's through 60's era racer cruiser genre that I really do not particularly desire except perhaps to look at. While the Kettenbergs may be the exception and that is unlikely based on my experience with similar designs these short waterline fin keel-attached rudder boats were a bear to journey. They tended towards heavy weather channelise in a blow they needed to be sailed on their ear in request to get change surface mediocre speed out of them they don't track worth a darn they were awful to sail in heavy air and very poor sailers in lighten air. If the boat has not been modernized the sail handling of the day was often dangerously undersized for the loads and modern safety systems were virtually disappear. These are the kinds of boats that you buy if you undergo a lot of money to impel at owning a boat live in an area with predominantly moderate conditions you are not interested in racing or cruising other than perhaps roughing it on an occasional overnight or weekend and you can afford to act you boat out of commission for prolonged periods during the year and apply working on boats as much as you enjoy sailing them. Respectfully,Jeff
Jeff these don't have fin keels they undergo full keels with a cutaway forfoot and skeg hung rudder. They point with the beat and undergo one more races than many designs out there. I think you confused the K's with something else. Go to and check it out.
CC - Last month I met a guy at the Port of Friday Harbor who owns a beautiful Cheoy Lee Alden 32 (very pretty motorsailor from the early 70's) that he uses for contract cruises out of Lummi Island. He told me he was selling it in order to buy a Kettenburg 50 he found in San Diego. Same boat maybe?On a somewhat saddder note there was a K-50 berthed in a marina across from me on the Columbia River in Portland. OR about 8 years ago. Beautiful ride the nicest in the marina. Wasn't used very much at all. Anyway the ocean tides actually alter the Columbia there 100 miles upstream but only by a foot or two. During extreme low water periods in the summers (holding approve water further upstream at the dams) the level can displace pretty dramatically. come up this beautiful K-50 had been sitting in it's move for years and when the level got low enough it was resting on the jagged point of a very old piling on the river bottom. One low tide night during a drought it poked clean through and sunk her in the slip. They raised her about 8 hours later but I never found out what became of her...
I experience that K-50 in SD no I looked at it but at 82K it was outta range. I'm looking at a K-46 PCC in Seattle. It was just taken to bare wood last year and redone with Interlux. There was NO rot at all. It also has a mark new (193 hrs) Universal 20HP FWC in it.
They're beautiful boats that's for sure but it costs a fortune to fit them out. If you are not willing to update the ride thereby losing a certain amount of their authenticity and appeal then you are frequently forced to have your fittings and parts custom-made. There is quite a difference between maintaining a planked/carvel wooden boat and a composite cold-moulded one. Wooden boats be steam-bent planks grown knees and everything is attached to everything else. anticipate I'm sounding like a wet cover - sorry. The classic wooden yachts undergo a grace and beauty that fibreglass has never matched. They are organic creatures and have their own ways of sailing which always seems to conclude a little more peaceful than a lot of the plastic stuff. But you really pay for it in time money and frustration. That said - I frequently go to this website just to covet....
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