Thought

a perfect boat…

We live in a society where people put great store in the idea of perfection especially where sailboats are concerned. I mean, who would not like to have the perfect boat? So, what makes a boat perfect? Does anyone out there have a list of the required bits that makes a boat perfect? My problem …

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a quick thought…

I’ve always liked Colvin’s junk rig boats as they were in a sorta/kinda evolutionary step that never really made the jump to the next stage and, as a result, have a lot to tell us about sailboat design. Someone has an idea for a boat or rig and designs a sailboat based on that idea. …

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impact…

Maybe the best thing about doing a VolksCruiser is that by its very nature, it’s a minimum-impact exercise. A smaller boat and budget go a long way to lessen one’s impact on the local environment. The less negative impact the better. Having lived in and around cruising areas I’ve been in the front row to …

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Stockholm Syndrome…

The other day while avoiding some needful sanding of fiberglass I found myself intrigued by one of those never ending threads on a forum about sailboat gear… As usual, someone popped up and stated categorically that if something costs more it’s better and the old chestnut “you get what you pay for” is a stone …

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Simple stuff…

There are times when reading the yachting press (in those rare times when my scum sucking zinio app actually works) that I feel that we’re not looking at boats anymore but some crazed rendering of the “Blind men and an elephant” sort… A while back when I was talking about the Columbia 26, a lot …

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