A CAL 27 in Hawaii…
Mongo averaged something like 125 miles a day on it’s 20-day engineless passage from California to Hilo Hawaii… More about it here.
VolksCruiser
an apt quote…
“The more you know, the less you need.” -Yvon Chouinard Is it just me or does that quote pretty much give away the secret of successful VolksCruising?
a good book…
Just maybe, the most influential book I’ve read relating to boats, boatbuilding, and cruising is not a book about boats or sailing at all… John Muir was a smart guy, a man who understood the importance of breaking things down to basic elements, and someone who never let someone else telling him something was simply …
You know, I still miss that van…
Dave Z and I were just having a discussion about the downside of standing out… Back when I was in college I had a job building snowshoes and one of my tasks was painting the snowshoes with an international orange paint. It was really bright paint. As it was also a linear polyurethane paint, we …
Some more volkscruiser proa news…
Michael Schacht of ProaFile has released a couple of interior renderings of “Herbie” his new in-progress proa design… Better yet, he’s hinted that a forty-foot version which, I expect, has some folks (myself included) doing the happy dance. For more info check out the continuing thread…
Bluewater cruiser for $10K or less all up…
Here’s a good example…
like a ray of light on an overcast day…
I like multihulls… The problem is in the cheap seats. There is very little available or suited to a person on a small budget. Multihulls are mostly impractical for the cruiser on a budget and, as no one seems to want to design for what would be a reasonably large niche, it does not look …
Something you should check out…
There’s an excellent piece over at ClubOrlov that every aspiring VolksCruiser should read…
Where’s Spock when you need him…
Logic is a funny thing… Especially when it’s connected with boats. For instance, a friend recently wrote about changing a gaff cat rigged boat into a junk schooner. His reasons for such a conversion were listed as the single sail was too big to be easily handled, possibly better balance of the schooner rig, and …
On taking stuff for granted…
I take stuff for granted and, I suspect, so do you. Which can be problematic if you happen to live in interesting times… For instance, just a few years back the simple act of hauling your boat for a week or so to do some work and bottom paint was simple. All you had to …