Here’s a fun fact that occurred to me yesterday… Most carrots available for sale here in the USVI seem to come from Canada. Here’s another factoid you might want to consider… A lot of Caribbean islands buy groceries for resale in the USVI. Which is to say that, when shopping for a can of tomatoes, …
I know how I feel but Chuck Wendig says it so much better than I can so you should read his take on this whole damn clusterfuck. For the future, as it stands, VolksCruiser is going to be mostly about lifeboats and getting gone. Deal with that however you care to.
So, less than a week till we see whether the current ball of airborne excrement hits the rotating blades or not, Which, when you think about it, is not all that different than what we do every day during “H” season which is, mostly, just wait and hope. Just for the record the whole wait …
I’m having a lot of trouble keeping my mind on boat jobs I need to be doing. While I should be building a new dodger, sorting out needful spares for Yanmar, chasing down that mystery leak that’s driving me nuts but my mind always seems to be somewhere else… Like wondering how nearly 50% of …
I recently had a conversation with someone wanting to get into cruising and it seemed that his main goal had a lot to do with achieving a certain level of independence. Sound familiar? For me, the best way to achieve a reasonable amount of independence is to simplify and live within one’s means. Which, I’ll …
While I have zero desire to ever return to the sunshine state (with the exception of reading Carl Hiaasen and James W. Hall books) I have kept a weather eye on its continued anti-cruiser policies. Yeah, I know, upscale beachfront property owners don’t want their view sullied by someone hanging underwear on their lifelines and …
As the wags are wont to say, “Shit happens”. Of course, sitting on a boat in the Caribbean during the middle of hurricane season one has to expect to have to run through the getting ready for a hurricane two-step. So it does go. So, we’re getting both boats ready for a possible storm, keeping …
So, yesterday was one of those days. Carriacou got up close and personal with a Cat 4/5 “H” ting with the expected result, a whale story that depressed me, and just when you think it can’t get any worse… Makes you want to sail away on a boat and chill. Affordability + Sustainabilty = VolksCruiser …
and in the excrement continues to engage rotating blades department… Read More »
Yeah, I know no one want to have anything to do with politics and my new T-shirt pretty much sums up my current view of things… The problem is that if you ignore politics you’re going to find that they will come around and bite you in the ass. For example, all of a sudden, …
Today’s mailbag included this , shall we say, rant on the subject of senseless horsepower on boats. It’s well worth the read. For me, the whole idea of a 500-horsepower outboard engine on a boat (much less four or five of them is simply insane. Then again, the largest boat engine I’ve owned was a …
