The other day I was checking out the VolkCruiser stats and saw I was getting some hits from a couple of new blogs who had linked to the site… Being curious, I trundled over to check them out and they seemed like nice sites by very nice and interesting people who were all about getting …
Just one of the reasons I’m a huge fan of Atom Voyages…
There’s a guy anchored next to me who I kind of admire… He mostly single hands and sails into and out of an anchorage in total control, handling his boat with the sort of elan one expects with a dinghy… What’s a little different is his boat is a Santa Cruz 70… Which brings us …
OK, I’ll admit it. I’ve been reading that toxic cesspool of a forum regarding the aftermath of the loss of Rebel Heart. It’s depressing reading but has the attraction of a slow motion train wreck combined with a witch hunt and OMO forgive me but it is entertaining in a sick and twisted way… A …
I see a lot of boats for sale… Hardly surprising because in a bad economy/faux recovery world there are simply a lot of folks who can’t afford to have a boat. So, as a result, a lot of them are selling them for pennies on the dollar. For us, dear reader, this is no bad …
Someone wrote and asked me what I thought of an older Columbia 34 selling for cheap the other day… It’s not a bad boat at all. Of course, being cheap with an asking price of less than $7K (around 62-cents a pound) makes it a whole lot more interesting as well. Even if you needed …
The recent quest for that ill-fated airliner over the last weeks should be something of a wake-up call for those who think speed is a goodly thing in a cruising boat, To be more precise, a huge problem in the airliner search has been the plethora of debris viewable from satellite. There’s so much of …
To answer an oft asked question about why I don’t do more detailed critiques of boats. I try not to be a critical kind of guy… Given the opportunity I’m much happier to point out something interesting in a boat rather than nitpick its design flaws, issues, or failings. That said, I have been known …
I often wonder what sort of sound a vampire makes when you drive that wooden stake through his or her heart… I expect it is not too unlike the shrill screams of consumerist junkie rage I’ve been hearing lately when I suggest that you don’t have to spend more than $100K for a boat to …
A while back we were talking about the cost of boats and boat building and how it could be best expressed in terms of cost per pound/displacement… So, the other day I came across a Pearson 303 selling for $5000. The boat is not in bad shape, has new sails, and like all boats it …
