I was just reading a scary article regarding fast fashion and it got me thinking about the good old days when people made things to last. You know, like sailboats. Speaking of which, I noticed a Snapdragon 26 for sale the other day and it certainly seemed to be in good shape. Sure it’s a …
I’m currently mired with two new computers neither of which works and my life for the moment is sitting on hold waiting to talk to someone so I can send them back and get them either replaced or fixed. Which, of course, leaves me writing this on my old steam-powered HP. Color me not a …
I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit.
Fatty Goodlander has an article in the new issue of All At Sea that’s well worth checking out.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery” ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Everybody’s on a budget it’s just baked into how we live in a consumerist society, While Jeff Bezos might be rich enough to have his …
A friend dropped me a line asking why I might be considering a Catalina 30 and pointed out that the Catalina would be smaller and slower than our CAL 34. He pointed out that we’d miss those four feet. Well, not exactly. Here are the important numbers… CAL 34 LOA 33.24′ LWL 26′ Beam 10′ …
There’s a Catalina 30 for sale in Hawaii that I’ve had my eye on for a while as it was selling for $5K and appeared to be in decent shape, and would not cost a fortune or too much time to sort out. The Catalina 30 is by its very nature an excellent contender for …
So, here’s a question. How do we define the cost of a VolksCruiser? Since most people think of boats in terms of length, we might want to try using that. At first thought, this seems to make sense as longer boats tend to be more expensive than shorter boats. Simple, right? Then again, how do …
It’s funny how you sometimes miss something that’s obvious from the start. For instance, take the Island Packet 26… Now, generally, I’m not a huge fan of Island Packets as they tend to be more expensive than I care to spend but I’ve always admired their unique ability to pimp their boats. So I sorta/kinda …
