some Muscadet goodness…
A great way to start the year
Affordable cruisers
Speaking of VolksCruisers…
I’ve always thought that Bill Lapworth’s CAL 28 is a great boat. It’s always been on my nearly perfect VolksCruiser list as it embodies excellent performance, a good quality build, and it’s affordable. As it happens, a new (to me at least) channel on YouTube recently did a video on a CAL 28 that’s for sale that …
A new YouTube channel you might want to check out…
A family of six on an engineless Ericson 28. Most certainly a channel I’ll be following.
A guest post from Dave Zeiger on a VolksCruising TriloBoat…
A VolksCruising, Blue Water TriloBoatBy Dave Zeiger at triloboats.blogspot.com Full disclosure… Anke and my blue water experience is entirely vicarious. I do not recommend a TriloBoat to venture far offshore as I lack blue-water performance data. I can confidently say a TriloBoat hull wouldn’t be the worst choice. A good design, built robustly and competently …
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Ranger 26: Breaking down the problems and needful things..
Some interior musings. When looking at the Ranger 26 a few things cry out for attention. Most notably the galley, or should we say the lack of a galley, situation. Everybody needs to eat and anyone living on a frugal cruising budget is going to be cooking most all of their meals aboard so it …
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Everything most folks need in a 26-foot package…
I’ve always liked the Ecume de Mer… It’s a lot of boat in a 26-foot envelope. Don’t believe me? Check it out.
What everyone seems to do…
Have you noticed how many YouTube channels there are about people downsizing, buying a boat, fixing it up, and sailing off into the paradise of Patreon fueled bliss? If not, you really should check them out because they are very educational for the most part. One of the things you’ll notice is there seem to …
Regarding the word “CHEAP”…
Just this morning a reader of VolksCruiser wrote to tell me the problem with cheap boats is that they are more expensive in the long run and that, just maybe, I should focus on boats of a higher quality more expensive caliber. Because, you know, you get what you pay for. Oops, I just threw …
Another CAL 34…
What looks like a very nice CAL 34 for not a lot of money… Check it out.
$0.20 a pound…
So this morning I noticed a Morgan 27 for sale for $1400 or best offer and a couple of things came to mind… First, that it was whole lot of boat for very little money and, secondly that it worked out to twenty cents a pound. Let me repeat that… $0.20 a pound! Truth be …