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Larry Polster: Selling the House and Moving On Board

In the past, we’ve written about Larry Polster’s decision to buy, and then start cruising on, hull number one of the new Kadey-Krogen 50 Open series. Now, Polster, who’s a vice president and partner of Kadey-Krogen, and his wife, Janet, have sold their house and moved on board their new boat, Together, full time. Here’s his story about how they made that decision, and how it’s working out. (As a former liveaboard myself, on a Grand Banks 36, I can just say that all this rings true.) Many of you know that Janet and I are the proud owners of the first…

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Larry Polster Finally Takes His New Kadey-Krogen 50 Cruising in the Bahamas: “Damn, We Nailed This” By Peter A. Janssen For Larry Polster, a vice president and partner of Kadey-Krogen Yachts, this cruise has been a long time coming. Indeed, it started more than two years ago when Polster put in his order for hull number one of the new Kadey-Krogen 50 Open series; he wanted it for his personal boat so he and his wife Janet could go cruising again. The Polsters were intimately involved in every aspect of the new build, inspecting it in the factory in Taiwan,…

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Larry Polster, New Owner of Hull #1 of Kadey-Krogen 50 Open: “Like a Kid in a Candy Store.”

If you want to see two happy owners of a new boat, take a look at Larry and Janet Polster in the top picture. They’re smiling from the Portuguese bridge of their new Kadey-Krogen 50 Open, which just arrived in Florida from the factory in Taiwan. The boat, hull number one, has been two years in the making, and the Polsters have been intimately involved for all that time; one year for the design and development, another for the construction. And they’re certainly happy about the way things turned out. “Janet and I are like the proverbial kids in a…

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Here’s a Different Look at the First Kadey-Krogen 50 Open from John Deere

The first Kadey-Krogen 50 Open is now on a ship heading from the factory in Taiwan to Florida, where it should arrive before long. And that’s none-to-soon for its owner, Larry Polster, a Kadey-Krogen vice president, who, with his wife Janet, has been actively engaged in the building and fitting out of their new boat, choosing everything from the hand-crafted vanity drawers to the single John Deere diesel. We’ve been covering Polster’s involvement in the boat, the first Kadey-Krogen with an open interior – meaning the salon and galley are open to the pilothouse, which is just one step up.…

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Owner’s Latest Progress Report on Building New Kadey-Krogen 50 Open

Like most of us, Larry Polster has dreamed about building his own ideal cruising boat. The difference between Polster and the rest of us, however, is that he’s actually doing something about it. Indeed, Polster, who’s a partner and vice president of Kadey-Krogen Yachts, is building hull number one of the new Kadey-Krogen 50 Open, and we’ve been following him as he writes progress reports about all the decisions he and his wife Janet are making about making this cruising boat their own. Here’s Polster’s report number six, with pictures and discussions of the hull, from its fine entry to…

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Latest Update on First Kadey-Krogen 50 Open: The Owner’s Report

Here’s the latest update on the progress of hull number one of the Kadey-Krogen 50 Open, written by its owner: Larry Polster, who’s also a partner and vice president of Kadey-Krogen Yachts. Like any other owner, Polster and his wife Janet are very involved in planning almost every detail of their new boat, since they intend to spend a lot of cruising time on board after the boat is delivered next February (but Polster isn’t giving up his day job). In this latest report, Polster tells how he and Janet are planning the galley on the new 50 Open, since…

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Construction of the New Kadey-Krogen 50 Open: An Owner’s Progress Report

Here’s an inside view of the construction of hull number one the new Kadey-Krogen 50 Open, as seen through the eyes of its owner, Larry Polster, who’s also a partner and vice president of Kadey-Krogen Yachts.  Polster told me in Miami that he’s now doing what we all would love to do, living the dream himself, since he and his wife, Janet, plan to live aboard the boat once it is delivered next fall and then do some extended cruising, starting with the Bahamas after the Miami boat show next February. But it would be hard to find a…