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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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Kadey-Krogen Starts New Company To Build 26-Knot Contemporary Motoryachts

Now here’s news: Kadey-Krogen, which just celebrated its 40-year history of building full-displacement, blue-water trawlers with a blowout owners’ rendezvous in Newport, Rhode Island, announced that it will start a new company making contemporary 26-knot boats called SUMMIT, designed by performance superstar Michael Peters from Sarasota, Florida. The SUMMIT line, starting with a flybridge 54, will all have planing hulls, per Peters’ history and Kadey-Krogen’s desire to go beyond its full-displacement heritage. Kadey-Krogen, which has built more than 600 full-displacement boats over the past 40 years, will continue all its operation in that segment. To emphasize its commitment to the…

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Veteran Cruisers Ship Kadey-Krogen 48 from Florida to the Pacific Northwest, Start New Journey By Peter A. Janssen Ever since they bought their new Kadey-Krogen 48 Idyll Time in 2006, Jeff and Suzie Parker have pursued an active cruising life from their home in Chattanooga, Tennessee. They’ve done the Great Loop, they’ve gone up and down the East Coast, they’ve become familiar with most of the stops on the Intracoastal Waterway. “Traveling up and down the ICW has become routine,” Parker wrote in his blog this spring. So they decided to expand their horizons – a long way – shipping…

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Kadey-Krogen Celebrates 40th Anniversary with Owners’ Rendezvous in Newport

Kadey-Krogen just celebrated their 40th anniversary with a fun owners’ rendezvous in Newport, Rhode Island, one of the most historic and scenic cruising destinations around (pictured above). The Stuart, Florida-based company says it is the oldest manufacturer of full-displacement, recreational cruising yachts in the world. It is also one of the most successful, having made 600 long-range cruisers from 36- to 58-feet so far, with designs to go up to 70 feet. Kadey-Krogen’s latest design, the 50 Open, is innovative in its layout while staying true to the company’s iconic hull design and proven blue-water performance. All those years of…

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After The Loop and 25,000 miles, The Coles and My Dream Are “Not Done Yet” Ted and Sue Cole of Placerville, California, just crossed their wake in Dania Beach, Florida, completing the Great Loop around the eastern half of the United States. That, of course, is a major achievement, but it’s not singular. After all, 127 other boats completed the Loop last year alone. But what is unusual, is that the Coles only cruised part of the time, taking seven years on the Loop from start to finish. And even then they managed to put in side trips to Mexico,…

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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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A Man with a Plan Richard Bost, 66, a meteorologist and retired New York City high school principal, plans ahead, and so far he’s planned well. He left Providence, Rhode Island, on his 1989, 42-foot Kadey-Krogen Dauntless on July 20, 2014, and he’s been at sea ever since, crossing the Atlantic to the Azores, then cruising up to Ireland, the North Sea, the Baltic, and finally down the coast of Europe to Spain and the Canary Islands. He then crossed the Atlantic again, making landfall in Martinique before transiting the Panama Canal. Dauntless is now at Fish Hook Marina in…

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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…

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New Kadey-Krogen 50 Open: A Major Change for an Iconic Bluewater Cruiser

Kadey-Krogen does one thing – it builds blue-water, full-displacement, passagemaker trawlers – and it does that very well. Indeed, Kadey-Krogen just delivered its 600th yacht. The company is not known for change for the sake of change. But now Kadey-Krogen has come up with a major change – the new Kadey-Krogen 50 Open, where the main deck is continuous from the cockpit to the salon and the galley and then just one step up to the pilothouse. Indeed, Larry Polster, a Kadey-Krogen partner and vice president, says, “The Krogen 50 Open is revolutionary for our brand. She’s a model all…

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