The carnage of the current Salty Dawg rally has given me a lot to think about the last couple of days… For instance, the various boating media coverage seems to think it is sorta/kinda normal for masts to fall down, rudders to fall off or break, and the fact that there are heroic Coast Guard …
Bumfuzzle makes a good point about doing your math and it’s well worth a quick read… Face it, being a person of the VolksCruiser non-consumerist ilk means what things cost is always an important factor whether it’s the price of oil, what a depth sounder costs, or the damage a few gallons of epoxy is …
A good deal on a Bolger AS-29 sharpie…
A reader of like mind dropped me an email the other day… “Found this boat on eBay a few weeks ago, I was second bidder, it sold for $260.. I think it may still be available if you know anyone who would be interested. Looks like a pretty easy fix, no sails but a Catalina …
A good example of a cheap boat deal that makes some sense… Read More »
Talk about stuff that gets up my nose… Boat bucks! Not so much the fact that we, from time to time, have to spend money on our boats but the fact that we have been trained to think it is natural and proper to pay excessive money for goods and services and be proud of …
Did you know that Dung beetles can navigate using the stars? You might want to remember that when someone tells you celestial navigation is an esoteric art too difficult to learn. So, with that little factoid bouncing around your brain pan, maybe we should look at needful navigation stuff for the VolksCruising set… Obviously, being …
Kurt Hughes, a multihull designer I admire, had an interesting post on his blog about a couple building one of his 30-foot cruising cats… It’s a pretty cool cat in the minimalist vein and I like it. Fact is, I can’t imagine a better 30-foot cat for cruising in. That said, sadly, it’s not really …
Back when we were sailing around on our Phil Bolger designed Loose Moose 2, it was not always easy… Having an unusual boat can be somewhat problematic on a bunch of levels. You tend to spend a lot of time answering (mostly idiotic) questions, you become an unwanted center of attention, and people say hurtful …
I keep reading about folks who buy boats in pretty good condition and then spend thousands and thousands of dollars fixing and “improving” them. Which brings me to an important rule for folks of the VolksCruiser persuasion… If it ain’t broke don’t fix it! The thing is, any given boat has a market value and …
An excellent article about what just might be the closest thing to a perfect VolksCruiser rig…
