Some ARC rally news, an interesting read, and something I really need to add to my laptop… Every day someone tells me I need boat stuff I cannot live without but have somehow never missed. Maybe worth discussing in the comments if you care to.
I’m currently reading John Scalzi’s “Starter Villain” and it’s a much needed enjoyable escape from the current insanity that passes for the daily news. I mention this because I’m stuck in the middle of the after-Thanksgiving morass and preparing for our Sapphire anniversary, followed by a birthday I’d rather forget. So, I expect there will …
I recently had someone point out that (not for the first time) a VolksCruiser t-shirt would go a long way towards supporting the blog and that everyone is doing “merch” these days. As it happens, I was actually considering doing a t-shirt for a cruising oriented film as an ongoing promotion element. Of course, being …
In one of Lin and Larry’s books they talk about their yearly purge of getting stuff off the boat that is not needed or not earning its keep. One of the best bits of advice I’ve encountered where boats are concerned. Just this morning I spent several hours going through boxes of the previous owners’ …
on the subject of PFDs.
I recently read how the average American throws away seventy-nine pounds of clothing every year. Considering that the population of the USA is somewhere around 333 million people so that’s like 2.6 trillion pounds of clothes going into landfill every year. Offhand I’d be really surprised if I had 79 pounds of clothes in total. …
In a word… Stuff.
Just a quick note to thank those readers who seem to get the whole VolksCruiser dynamic and here’s hoping that 2022 will be a better one. The current plan is to have a lot more on the rehabbing of classic plastic, affordable boat building, and the de-gentrification of cruising and sailing. All the best for …
