For someone considering the frugality of a VolksCruising budget it is important to understand how most people think cruising budgets work. For example, you might want to check out this podcast about one couple’s experiences of their decidedly non-VolksCruiser but (in their words) non-extravagant lifestyle budget that averages $60,269.80 a year. Enjoy…
Yesterday, over at Boat Bits, I mentioned a pretty cool new bit of electronics from Velocitek which has me drooling… Hey, I may be Mr Cheapseats but I still like really cool stuff! So, I did some need/want addition and, sadly, it’s not really something I need. Even more interesting after doing the need/want calculations …
What do you actually need from a cruising boat? It’s a hard question. Mostly because it varies greatly from person to person and further complicated by the fact that most folks these days never really learned the difference between need and want… Personally, where I’m concerned, comfort is a big part of the equation and …
I get that a lot, the “everybody says” you need a bigger/more expensive/multihull/monohull/long keel/fin keel boat blues. As far as I’m concerned, all you really need to do is get a boat and whatever you get will, more or less, work out. I’ve also been told that saying this is dangerous, sailing is a serious …
Everyone wants good stuff… I know that. I want good stuff for my boat and you want good stuff for your boat because good stuff is better than bad stuff and hey, we’re not stupid. The problem is that for those in the grip of serial consumerism, it’s not about good stuff but all about …
Bumfuzzle makes a good point about doing your math and it’s well worth a quick read… Face it, being a person of the VolksCruiser non-consumerist ilk means what things cost is always an important factor whether it’s the price of oil, what a depth sounder costs, or the damage a few gallons of epoxy is …
I overheard a couple of people discussing dinghies the other day and it made me realize just how much stuff has changed… I know it dates me but back when the cruising bug first hit me in the 70’s, dinghies were things you rowed. The 98-foot LOD schooner I was working on at the time …
Every once in awhile I check out what CAL 34s are going for… One reason I do it is I like to see what others have done to their CALs and I like knowing what the current going rate of CAL 34s happens to be. For those who might be curious, there are quite a …
On why you don’t have to pay $150K for a 34-foot sailboat… Read More »
SV Estrellita 5.10b making sense about the advantages of a smaller more affordable boat…
A good deal on a Bolger AS-29 sharpie…
