Since I began writing Boat Bits and VolksCruiser I’ve gotten a lot of mail on the question of whether it’s possible to build or buy a boat and cruise cheaply… The problem is the answer is complicated and has a lot more to do with the person asking the question than it actually does about …
If you stop and think about it, people have been sailing and cruising for a very long time and, as a result, have pretty much sorted out all of the problems you may run into. Better yet, a lot of folks who have successfully done the cruising gig have written some pretty good books about …
Lately, researching nomadic cultures, I’ve discovered that most of the material available on the web regarding subjects of a nomadic nature are all about travel. While travels or movement is certainly a part of the nomadic experience, travel for the sake of travel is not really what it’s all about… that’s called being a tourist. …
Do you want to do the VolksCruiser thing and cruise or not? Offhand I tend to go with the idea that folks reading a blog called VolksCruiser tend to be cruising oriented and that folks interested in living aboard are off somewhere reading VolksLiveaboard or something similar… Or at least they should be because the …
Someone recently asked me what a VolksCruiser should cost and I had to actually think about it for a while before an answer came to me… The whole premise of a VolksCruiser is that it’s affordable to a section of people totally ignored by the Powers That Be. Of course, that leaves us with the …
Lately I’ve found it interesting how the tiny house brigade has recently discovered that boats are excellent appropriate-sized dwellings. The real question is… What the hell took them so long? Anyone familiar with boats and cruising watching the tiny house movement evolve has found it something of a frustrating experience. Partly because they’ve been re-inventing …
Maybe we’re talking about stuff all wrong… Forget the money. Seriously, as anyone who has taken a couple of college level economics classes knows, money is really just an artificial construct and, at best, is simply a means of counting virtual beans. Now if you stop to think about it, what exactly does a pile …
maybe we should actually be talking about value… Read More »
Comet Camper making a whole lot of sense.
…and hitting a home run.
Five, count them, five good reasons you need to be reading Comet Camper. Got to love the attitude…
