The important/funny thing about windvane self-steering gears is folks either get it or they don’t… Sort of a love/hate thing. Which, as things go, happens to be a good thing where outfitting a cruising boat on a frugal budget is concerned. First off, the cost of most manufactured self-steering gears are silly expensive with a …
about self-steering and how to save $4000 or more in one fell swoop… Read More »
Lately, researching nomadic cultures, I’ve discovered that most of the material available on the web regarding subjects of a nomadic nature are all about travel. While travels or movement is certainly a part of the nomadic experience, travel for the sake of travel is not really what it’s all about… that’s called being a tourist. …
Do you want to do the VolksCruiser thing and cruise or not? Offhand I tend to go with the idea that folks reading a blog called VolksCruiser tend to be cruising oriented and that folks interested in living aboard are off somewhere reading VolksLiveaboard or something similar… Or at least they should be because the …
Someone recently asked me what a VolksCruiser should cost and I had to actually think about it for a while before an answer came to me… The whole premise of a VolksCruiser is that it’s affordable to a section of people totally ignored by the Powers That Be. Of course, that leaves us with the …
Lately I’ve found it interesting how the tiny house brigade has recently discovered that boats are excellent appropriate-sized dwellings. The real question is… What the hell took them so long? Anyone familiar with boats and cruising watching the tiny house movement evolve has found it something of a frustrating experience. Partly because they’ve been re-inventing …
Maybe we’re talking about stuff all wrong… Forget the money. Seriously, as anyone who has taken a couple of college level economics classes knows, money is really just an artificial construct and, at best, is simply a means of counting virtual beans. Now if you stop to think about it, what exactly does a pile …
maybe we should actually be talking about value… Read More »
There’s a really excellent post over at The World Encompassed which you might want to read…
Something to send to those folks telling you a 28-foot sailboat is too small.
I get quite a few letters of the “But-it’s-no-longer-possible-to-cruise-old-school” sort so here’s a link to Speedwell of Hong Kong which shows it’s not only possible but being done in some style. Nuff said.
OK, I have to admit that VolksCruiser services a certain, shall we say, niche group of folks somewhat outside what passes for the sailing and cruising mainstream… But, who are you really? More importantly, what would you like to see more of on VolksCruiser and why? As they say comments are open…
