Monique is no longer with us…
A bit of sad news from France as we lose a much loved circumnavigator and arctic voyager.
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Just a quiick note…
I’ll still be doing VolksCruiser for the foreseeable future and just taking a few days off to sort out a bit of reorganization. More soon come.
computer hiatus…
My computer keyboard is no longer working so I’ll be taking a (hopefully short) hiatus until I can source a new one. So it goes…
The deep dark secret about classic plastic…
Most production boats from the 60’s,70’s, and 80’s are really well built. One of the worst jobs I ever had was cutting up hurricane boats leftover from Hurricane Marilyn. The job entailed being dropped off on a beach with a chainsaw, a can of gas, and other tools of destruction so I could salvage any …
a boat project…
…you may want to follow.
Have you ever had one of those days?
Have you ever had one of those days? Maybe I should back up a little… For a while now I’ve felt that Boat Bits, VolksCruiser, Island Gourmand, and Fishing Under Sail could use a little work and a few tweaks in direction. The problem is it’s really hard to do a makeover while trying to …
a quick thought about a not-so-good-cat…
The first thing that came across my desk, so to speak, today was someone selling an elderly Oceanic 30 cat for $45K. It got me thinking… The fact is the Oceanic was never much of a boat and thirty years ago you could pick one up for pennies on the dollar say $10-15K because no …
a small suggestion for the new year…
Time’s a funny thing… Way back when, I woke up one morning knowing I wanted to move on to a boat…Funny how shit like that happens. The thing is, at the time, living on a boat and cruising was in no way a popular or hip thing to do. In fact, if you were doing …
A quick thought on needful things…
The big problem on my boat is guitar stowage… I mention this because everybody I know has a stowage problem with some non-marine stuff whether it be guitars, books, art supplies, stuffed animals, or other non-boat specific stuff that you really need around to make your boat… Home Of course, a lot of folks …