40’ Custom Built Live Aboard Motor Sailor.  (Kolika, WAS SOLD IN 2009)                                
If you are not tight down to a standard racing type cruising sailboat, but are looking for a very unique boat specifically designed for comfortable and save cruising, this boat may be for you.

What sets KOLIKA apart from other sailboats: many people have ask us how did I manage to have my wife agree to go cruising with me for 10 years, even though she is not a sailor and often suffers from sea sickness. The answer is that the boat had to be a very comfortable home with sailing abilities. And KOLIKA has done that very well. I also learned to appreciate her many features like sailing in Alaska in a snow storm in complete comfort with the engine heated pilot house or staying in isolation over the winter in Alaska, warm and comfortable thanks to our diesel fireplace on one filling of fuel.

Also the generous water capacity (320 Gallon) allowed us to live up to 2 months on one filling. She always impressed me with gentle motion in rough seas and 95% of the time she pilots herself with Autohelm linked to the GPS. Cruising some times with other boats, we realized how much more rested we were than the others thanks to the comfortable pilot house. Due to her weight and hull shape she also sails very upright which helps the comfort level.

The wind generator and solar panels allowed us to live from the batteries at anchor up to one week before we had to run the engine to charge the batteries and running time was greatly reduced because of our 2 x 140 AMP alternators. Her single handling ability comes in very handy because we were always standing watch and never had crew with us.

Kolika Travel Plans for 2006. 
From 26th. of June to mid-July, she will be in the Long Island area. After that plans are to go up the Hudson River to Albany where the mast will be taken down for passage into Lake Champlain. At the beginning of August, our Cell Phone will not work in the Lake area, but we will pick up our e-mail occasionally. We are willing to change our travel plans for serious buyers to arrange a meeting and demonstration of the boat at any time.

Kolika, WAS SOLD IN 2009