Two things came across my desk today and they both had an unusual amount of resonance…One was today’s blog post by my favorite Druid on progress and, the other, was an email from Mariah of Comet Camper fame on why a 5/10/15 year plan may not be the smart way to go. This morning,s input …
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 …
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 …
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 »
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 »
Have you noticed that Sail Magazine is now doing a rally so folks coming down the ICW won’t be so lonely? I suspect, that most folks of a VolksCruising bent, are not the sort who sign up and pay big bucks to do rallies. Well… Maybe if we had a stealth/flash-mob rally? Nah, there’s no …
The recent quest for that ill-fated airliner over the last weeks should be something of a wake-up call for those who think speed is a goodly thing in a cruising boat, To be more precise, a huge problem in the airliner search has been the plethora of debris viewable from satellite. There’s so much of …
I take stuff for granted and, I suspect, so do you. Which can be problematic if you happen to live in interesting times… For instance, just a few years back the simple act of hauling your boat for a week or so to do some work and bottom paint was simple. All you had to …
