STUPID! The other day I bought a pair of industrial shears designed for cutting hard to cut stuff like Kevlar and Dux for just shy of twenty bucks ($16.47 to be precise). This morning I happened to see the very same shears for sale at an online purveyor of boat stuff being sold for nearly …
There’s a Pearson 33 in not horrible shape on St Thomas going for $4000 and like most boats in the sub $5K bracket it will need some work. I’m guessing not a lot… Which is not to say you can’t turn a good deal on a boat into a bloody money pit because I see …
I’m currently fleshing out some ideas about frugal cruising for my Island Gourmand blog. While reading some other blogs on cooking on boats I detected a certain trend where saving money was concerned. The solution most put forward to spending less seemed to be to go out and spend more. I’ll be honest this sorta/kinda …
On the premise that spending money to save money is a good idea… Read More »
We seem to live in a world of absolutes these days and, just between you and me, it drives me batshit crazy. Take two words that come up a lot where sailing and cruising are concerned… Easy Hard Now, in the world I grew up in those were just two words on a scale but …
A while back we were talking about the cost of boats and boat building and how it could be best expressed in terms of cost per pound/displacement… So, the other day I came across a Pearson 303 selling for $5000. The boat is not in bad shape, has new sails, and like all boats it …
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 …
What a lot of folks forget when discussing cruising budgets is that the more self-sufficient you are the lower the cruising budget is going to be. As much as I try to keep our food budget frugal and while saving ten cents a pound on carrots or eating cheaper cuts of meat does add up …
So… I expect, since you’re reading this, that you’re not someone who is going to be cruising on a $60,269.80 a year budget. So, we’ll just assume you’re a $6000, $9000, or $12000 a year type of person. Then again, maybe you just want to try and get a handle on the whole sustainable-less-is-more-cruising-on-a-budget thought …
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…
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 …
