The most asked question to this blog is… What’s the perfect/best VolksCruiser? So, here’s the answer… It doesn’t exist and it never will. Sadly, words like “perfect” and “best” are more a selling point rather than a real thing and if you’re going to be doing the VolksCruiser thing successfully, you’ll have to lose the …
The other day while I was shopping for groceries, a much talked about and often recommended book came to mind… The reason for such an event was my standing in front of the cabbages looking at the $1.19 a pound price. Seriously, $1.19 a pound for cabbage is frelling nuts! Hence my thoughts of “Sailing …
Here’s a couple of designs worth thinking about… When we were living in France, I seriously considered building a Maurice Griffiths Waterwitch but balked at the idea because, at 30 feet, it seemed too big. Obviously, a mistake on my part… But not a bad design for those looking for a VolksCruiserish shoal draft boat.
So, let’s say the guy selling the skipjack were to lower the price by 33% which would make it a whole lot more attractive… Obviously a cheap boat has issues and needs stuff fixed, replaced, and upgraded and that costs money and that can get seriously nuts. For instance, it’s a given that the sails …
There’s a beat up fixer-upper for sale down here that I’ve had my eye on for a while… a Kenner Skipjack to be precise. As boats go, it is something of an odd duck… Of course, half the reason for my interest is the word “skipjack” which is a hull form that makes all kinds …
The other day I heard that a boat I knew who anchored not far from us in St Martin was in the South Pacific… I mention this because the boat in question was a Belgian canal barge drawing a couple of feet converted into a sailboat/art studio/gallery so hardly what comes to mind when folks …
In Rodger Martin’s recent IBEX talk about sharpies he said something that resonated for me… “In the last couple of years while cruising in the Bahamas I’ve seen that the great majority of sloops motorsail upwind or close-reaching with only the mainsail and downwind with only a jib set. In a month in the Bahamas …
If you’re reading VolksCruiser it is more than likely you’re sailing on a budget or you’re thinking about it. On the other hand, just possibly, you are actually looking for a hip, fashionable, and trendy sailing site and you’re just hopelessly lost… Of course, no one likes to be reminded they are on a budget …
Over at a forum, which seems to be inhabited by those who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing, there seems to be much discussion about the asking price of Lin and Larry Pardey’s Taleisin. It got me thinking… First off, I just do not understand where the whole “wood boats are …
Just a quick reminder… Sometimes I need to remind myself that, by and large, folks simply do not care what sort of boat you have. As for the ones who do, you might not care to know them anyway.
