To steal a line from Dickens… “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” From where I sit those words have a lot to do with the current state of affairs where boats are concerned. I’m not sure if …
I’ll get this out of the way from the GetGo… Affordable IS important. So, back to the list: Affordable to build or buy Affordable to cruise and maintain on a tight budget The hard part when the word affordable comes into play is it means different things to different people. What’s affordable to a person …
Most everyone wants a bigger boat… Well, in a sorta/kinda way. Face it, we all like lots of room to spread out in, gobs of storage space, and the extra speed a longer waterline gives us. That said, when it comes to paying for a night in a marina, a haul out, or the extra …
I’ll go out on a limb here and guess that one of the reasons you’re reading this post is because you want to spend less rather than more… Am I right? While the obvious answer “Just spend less” to the question of “How do I spend less on boat stuff?” is correct, for some reason …
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 …
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 …
STUPID! The other day I bought a pair of industrial shears designed for cutting hard to cut stuff like Kevlar and Dux for just shy of twenty bucks ($16.47 to be precise). This morning I happened to see the very same shears for sale at an online purveyor of boat stuff being sold for nearly …
The other day a friend wrote me complaining that the boat project he was thinking of building was getting scary expensive and he used winches as an example. The winches spec’d out for his design, even with a deep discount added up to somewhere just shy of $7K. Quite an “ouch” factor for a small …
Here’s a quick lesson on why you should shop where the commercial fishermen do…
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 »
