Just maybe, the most influential book I’ve read relating to boats, boatbuilding, and cruising is not a book about boats or sailing at all… John Muir was a smart guy, a man who understood the importance of breaking things down to basic elements, and someone who never let someone else telling him something was simply …
The other day I noticed there was a Bolger sharpie for sale up in Alaska on Craig’s list… It got me thinking. First the idea of buying a boat for cheap up in Alaska, sailing it around for the season, and then selling it or even giving it away makes for an extremely cheap five …
Dave Z and I were just having a discussion about the downside of standing out… Back when I was in college I had a job building snowshoes and one of my tasks was painting the snowshoes with an international orange paint. It was really bright paint. As it was also a linear polyurethane paint, we …
Lin Pardey recently took to a cruising forum to counter some of the misunderstanding going on regarding the whole engineless thing… The thread is actually worth reading as Ms Pardey makes sense and reading a lot of the posts will give you some understanding about how elusive common sense is when discussion of engines, basic …
a couple of notes regarding engines and suchlike… Read More »
Michael Schacht of ProaFile has released a couple of interior renderings of “Herbie” his new in-progress proa design… Better yet, he’s hinted that a forty-foot version which, I expect, has some folks (myself included) doing the happy dance. For more info check out the continuing thread…
Here’s an excellent and concise post on the current thinking on making money while cruising. Definitely worth your time.
Here’s a good example…
Jay Fitzgerald (whose book should be on every VolksCruisers bookshelf) has mentioned that boat size should reflect muscle power and as far he could figure that 1 to 50 was the ratio that made sense. Offhand, I expect he’s pretty close to being right on the money… So, what does that work out to in …
I really truly hate the words “yacht”, “yachtsman” and “yachting”… That said, Yachting Monthly is a magazine that should be on anyone’s reading list who’s concerned with going to sea in small boats because it has excellent content actually worth reading. Gee, what a concept… For instance, the current issue of Yachting Monthly has an …
I see that the $500 a month cruising budget is still an ongoing talking point and well should it be… Personally, I’m a big fan of the idea of having a budget and, in a world needful of some serious contraction, smaller real world budgets just make sense. But, the act of saying you’re on …
