Truth is, I never feel very comfortable with the concept of rules and there’s a line from a book I read in high school that has stuck with me even though I no longer remember the name of the book or author who wrote it… “Rules and regulations are just stop signs on the roads …
well, of course, there are always going to be some exceptions… Read More »
Is it just me or am I the only one who’s noticed the somewhat alarming fact that you can now buy cans of gas for your outboard for $7.99 a quart? While I get the whole ethanol is bad for outboards and suchlike, the idea that we’re reduced to buying gas for more than I …
I’m pretty sure this is not exactly an example of progress… Read More »
Tad Roberts has a new design in the works which, I expect, I’ll be telling you a lot more about in the next week or so, but for the moment, I’d just like to point out something important about it and boats in general… Speed: 6.5 knots with 15HP outboard, 9 knots with 40HP A …
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 …
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 …
One problem with buying into the out-of-control-consumerism gig is that the first thing to go is anything that passes for critical thinking. Or, in other words, you quit thinking… For instance, here are two anchors… The Bruce (or clone thereof) And what seems to be the current nextgen flavor of the month… They’re actually both …
a tale of two anchors and a bit of critical thinking… Read More »
Maybe we’re talking about stuff all wrong… Forget the money. Seriously, as anyone who has taken a couple of college level economics classes knows, money is really just an artificial construct and, at best, is simply a means of counting virtual beans. Now if you stop to think about it, what exactly does a pile …
maybe we should actually be talking about value… Read More »
Hipness, what it is!Hipness, what it is!Hipness, what it is!And sometimes hipness is What it ain’t! Or so goes the refrain from Tower of Power’s best known song (as well as being one of my all time favorites). If you were to read today’s modern yachting rags you’d think that ever bigger and ostentatious catamarans …
“In these days of depleted bankrolls,’cheap’ yachts are a matter of importance to most of us”. – Howard Chapelle
Here’s something of a conundrum… You live on a rock with a finite number of resources and there’s plenty of proof that a lot of important resources are either running out or will become too expensive to use in the not too distant future. What do you do? A. Bugger all and continue as normal. …
