Here is a picture of my sailboat, although slightly larger then your dimensions. The Olympic Star is 23.5 feet in length. I believe she could be defined as a pocket cruiser. They are quite reliable and I have spent many a weekend aboard with my 2 children. The headroom leaves something to be desired but...

 

Hopefully we don't have to be owners....

The classic 20 ft Flicka:

Nordica 16 and 20

And in the UK there's a slew of pocket cruisers like this Vivacity 20.. bilge keelers for the mud harbours there.. We once saw a young couple cruising one of these in BC.. with a newborn and a Golden Retriever on board!

 

Hopefully we don't have to be owners....

The classic 20 ft Flicka:

That's a cute little boat... saw one on a trailer going down the hwy once...

Looked like the "Little Tug that Could"...

 

these are all supper cool boats i love boats like this. this small. small but cool boats .

 

Here's my 1972 Aquarius 23 coming in for a raft up. I love this boat!

 

Georgian 23, a small big boat:

Oday Tempest:

 

Our old Catalina 22. Much as I love our 30 I do miss her...

 

Here's a neat page

Marine Illustration

And another classic... the Nimble 20

 

i love the idea of a boat being 23' but feeling like a 30' which is looks like in bjjones.

 

I have often commented to jones that his boat looks far larger than it's stated dimensions. They did a good job with that boat.

 

yes they did. i hope my next boats like that one.

 

when i finally get my next boat with a cabin im going to make it feel like it's a bigger boat. i plan to have a stove inside or a grill on the outside. crazy radio system, bunch of electronics and stuff like a somewhat modern sailboat. with technology

 

Thanks, small and bubbles. I think the Georgian 23 is one of the few small boats that visually benefits from having a whole bunch of crap bolted onto it. Naked, she just looks kinda kinda dumpy and top heavy.

 

A friend just purchased an Atlantic City Cat, 24', and they also used to make a 21'. The space down below is huge and gorgeous. Sorry, no pic...

 

I drew this 21'er for myself thinking it was the smalest boat that would satisfy my cruising needs.

 

ya jones that boat doesn't look as atractive as the pic of the boat from before

 

Who says Bayliner didn't make some cute boats;

This Buccaneer 220 is what got me hooked on sailing....she's gone now, but not forgotten.
Custom sail by PO, btw;

 

Who says Bayliner didn't make some cute boats;

Big difference between the Mull and Peterson Buccaneer/US boats and the earlier Buccaneer line...

I drew this 21'er for myself thinking it was the smalest boat that would satisfy my cruising needs.

Bob.. that's pretty.. any plans to build one?

 

Fast:
Thank you.
No. I have a nice 26'er now. I just wanted to see how small I could go and preserve the features I enjoy with my 26'er. I like, small simple boats.

 

I think it might surprise a lot of people that someone who designed the "dream big boat" for so many people chooses to sail a smaller boat.

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I think our boat qualifies as a micro-cruiser - 24'10" overall, 23.5' on deck. She's wood and has a beam under 7' so not very spacious inside. The PO used to cruise with his wife on Lake Ontario, but we have just daysailed so far. I think any cruising we do with all the kids is gonna be from B&B to B&B...not that I have any problem with that...

 

My little boat.

 

Montgomery 15' Montgomery 15 sailboat for sale
Montgomery 17' Montgomery 17, 1977, Durango, Colorado, sailboat for sale from Sailing Texas
Here is a trip blog of a couple of nuts sailing a Compac 16' across the Bay of Florida/Everglades: Adventure Vista - A View Into Our World of Adventure
Some of these little boats go long distances.
The Montgomerys cost more then my 27 footer did.

 

Now that's micro. Sheese, my previous Coronado 25 is too big for this thread. Still, I totally identify with the OP's sentiments-

Cheaper, easy to handle, can squeak into shallow, narrow places. I'm actually looking forward to trying out my Hobie 16 this summer, and running it up onto the beach.

 

In the 80s Webb Chiles did some major passages (nearly a circumnav) in an OPEN 18 footer.. Drascombe Lugger

From Wikipediea:

Between 1978 and 1984, Webb Chiles sailed round most of the world in his Luggers Chidiock Tichborne I and Chidiock Tichborne II.[16][17] Starting in California in Chidiock I, he crossed the Pacific, then the Indian Ocean, before heading into the Red Sea. Near Vanuatu during the Pacific crossing, the boat capsized during bad weather, then drifted for two weeks while he was unable to bail his flooded boat. After becoming damaged, Chidiock I was seized by the Saudi Arabian authorities when Chiles was arrested on suspicion of being a spy. Chiles had a new Lugger, Chiddiock II, shipped to him in Egypt. This he sailed south to cross his previous track and then through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea out into the Atlantic to La Palma in the Canary Islands. Leaving the boat briefly to visit Tenerife, he returned to find that she had capsized at her mooring in a storm. Finding that he had lost a lot of gear, Chiles decided to end his attempt at circumnavigating in an open boat.

 

Hmmm capsized at a mooring? Thats when you know it's TOO small.

 

faster hows bigs that boat you posted with the 6 port lights?

 

That's a Buccaneer 240.. but don't go there. Those are some of the worst "sailboats" ever launched. Very much a product of the first gas crunch, too much freeboard, underballasted, as soon slide sideways as go to weather, and ugly as sin.....(JMO, of course) They made 21s, 24s, perhaps a 28 and a 32 IIRC.

 

and zed dam double master on a 24'. and sorry i don't catorgrize that small cruiser.
22' and under

 

I'm kinda liking these:

A Jarcat 6: trailerable, ply construction, decent accomodations:

 

jones those are so cool i saw a 20' or a 22' like that for sail the guy wanted 10k tho crazy. what size it that jones?

 

6 meters- about 20'