Good Stuff
and in “the best of times the worst of times” department…
This is just neat… A Garmin GPS chartplotter and fishfinder for $299. While being told I’m a Luddite all the time I can still see the value of good quality cheap electronic aids to navigation because they make the whole VoksCruising gig easier, safer, and more affordable. Sure you can pay a lot more for …
and in “the best of times the worst of times” department… Read More »
Something you might want to check out
There’s a really excellent post over at The World Encompassed which you might want to read…
An article you really need to read…
Over at Comet Camper there’s a great post that anyone considering the whole cheap-seats VolksCruiser thing should should read and take to heart… Just saying.
about little boats and big voyages…
Charles Doane tells us something we already know (but it’s a good read)…
A boat I’ve always wished I’d had…
Once, a long time ago, I was a poor starving college student and found myself living on a CAL 20… Fact is, living on a CAL 20 was not such a bad thing and with a little creativity/zen was actually quite comfortable. Made better because the CAL 20 is a very capable boat and could …
A quick link…
WoodenBoat has an excellent article online by Reuel Parker (of The New Cold-Molding Boatbuilding fame) about an interesting way to build a mast… Really a must read.
An excellent resource for VolksCruiserish folk…
I really truly hate the words “yacht”, “yachtsman” and “yachting”… That said, Yachting Monthly is a magazine that should be on anyone’s reading list who’s concerned with going to sea in small boats because it has excellent content actually worth reading. Gee, what a concept… For instance, the current issue of Yachting Monthly has an …
like a ray of light on an overcast day…
I like multihulls… The problem is in the cheap seats. There is very little available or suited to a person on a small budget. Multihulls are mostly impractical for the cruiser on a budget and, as no one seems to want to design for what would be a reasonably large niche, it does not look …