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.
Cruising Culture
Why I subscribe to WoodenBoat…
WoodenBoat has an excellent article “A Sound boat and Simple Living” for you to read online of the VolksCruiserish sort. You’re still here?
Maybe the best VolksCruising channel on the web…
Sailorama is a great YouTube channel of the unapologetic cruising on a budget ilk and if you’re leaning towards doing the VolkCruiser Fandango you should really be following them. Really. For example… and Lots of good stuff and content with the added advantage of a definite lack of the “Look at me we’re wonderful and …
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Worth watching
Nick Skeates talking about Wylo 2 and things… Gypsea Stories: Wylo II from Bryony Stokes on Vimeo.
Small boats, small problems and just do it…
Of late I’ve been hearing the old Pardey mantra of “Go small, go simple, go now” a lot recently and, surprisingly, in a somewhat contentious manner. That such a simple bit of reasoning can become contentious I find just a bit bothersome… So, let’s break it down. Go small Sure, I get the fact that …
On the subject of how most people think about cruising…
Over at one of my favorite blogs there’s an excellent post on the cost of living aboard and cruising that everyone should take the time to read and digest. Especially if you’re considering the whole VolksCruiser thing. More on the subject and my thoughts in the not-too-distant future. You’re still here?
Putting that $500 a month cruising budget in perspective…
A film you might want/need to check out…
Hazy details…
A very long time ago PBO had a short article on building a hatch for a sailboat based on the Maurice Griffiths double coaming design. It was good albeit sparse on details but included all of the information one actually needed to build the hatch. I cut this picture out of the magazine and added …
a good read…
Yachting Monthly has a very good article up on their website you’ll want to check out.
Doing the VolksCruiser two-step…
I’m currently in the midst of a variety of projects which, if I were not a cheapseats VolksCruiserish sort of fellow, would cost an arm and a leg to sort out… One project is pretty simple: replacing the hand rails on the coach roof to make space for our new nesting dinghy. The old ones …