While all boats need a good selection of tools, it’s a given that folks of the VolksCruiserish persuasion tend to be a bit more serious about their tools because they’ll be using them on a regular basis. You might say a good set of tools and half a clue about how to use them is …
A very cool outboard that has VolksCruiser written all over it.
I just started rereading “Cruising in Seraffyn” and I’m finding the rather stark contrasts with what passes for cruising today somewhat entertaining… Of course, times were different then and cruising had an element of a no-safety net enterprise. Just something to keep in mind next time someone you know throws a hissy-fit because their air …
Folks around boats tend to become obsessed with costly materials which they give near-magical properties to whether or not they deserve it. So yeah, let’s talk teak… Or to be more precise, why you don’t want to use teak. Truth be told, teak in my opinion, is a far cry from what I’d consider a …
Here’s a quick lesson on why you should shop where the commercial fishermen do…
There are a couple of ways to look at the need/want thing but it mostly boils down to looking at it with a positive approach or a negative one… If you start with a negative slant the whole need/want test is all about not being able to have something you want while, on the other …
Some interesting news on the Pop 25 front…
Just maybe, catamarans don’t have to be sillly expensive… Read about it here.
Here’s a guy doing it right…
Time, apparently, is a somewhat elusive concept where work and boats are concerned… The other day someone was telling me about a guy who’d taken 12 years to build a boat. As it happens, I built the same boat and it took me six months of work spread out over a year. So, the question …
