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?
Cruising economics
A couple of quick thoughts before we look deeper into that Ranger 26…
I’m pretty sure most everyone reading this realizes we live in a consumerist society. Fewer of those reading think that consumerism is out of control and a big problem for folks on a finite planet’s ecosystem. Everyone still seems to want that new-better-than-the-last-one iPhone. The other day I found myself being served in a Kmart …
A couple of quick thoughts before we look deeper into that Ranger 26… Read More »
Worth watching
Nick Skeates talking about Wylo 2 and things… Gypsea Stories: Wylo II from Bryony Stokes on Vimeo.
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 …
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 …
Regarding the word “CHEAP”…
Just this morning a reader of VolksCruiser wrote to tell me the problem with cheap boats is that they are more expensive in the long run and that, just maybe, I should focus on boats of a higher quality more expensive caliber. Because, you know, you get what you pay for. Oops, I just threw …
A film to check out…
Watch the whole film here.
An old trick…
The Rigging Doctor on how to save money on haulouts… Good to know.