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 »
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 …
There’s an excellent piece over at ClubOrlov that every aspiring VolksCruiser should read…
Over at Simply Sailing Online there’s a post that makes a lot of sense… You really should read it if you have not already. I mention it because there are a lot of people who think that having stuff is what makes them safe. As opposed to something, shall we say, as mundane of being …
Over at a forum, which seems to be inhabited by those who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing, there seems to be much discussion about the asking price of Lin and Larry Pardey’s Taleisin. It got me thinking… First off, I just do not understand where the whole “wood boats are …
Just a quick reminder… Sometimes I need to remind myself that, by and large, folks simply do not care what sort of boat you have. As for the ones who do, you might not care to know them anyway.
