I see that the $500 a month cruising budget is still an ongoing talking point and well should it be… Personally, I’m a big fan of the idea of having a budget and, in a world needful of some serious contraction, smaller real world budgets just make sense. But, the act of saying you’re on …
I like cheap boats… Truth is, if I see two boats for sale, one a beat up old CAL or some such and a pristine Swan or Hallberg Rassy, I go right to the beater. I suspect the reason behind it is the cheap fixer-upper gives me a sense of freedom… My dad used to …
I recently read an article on a blog about a pretty interesting inflatable with a sailing rig not too unlike the old Tinker Tramp in concept… … but without the life raft elements. It caught my interest until I noticed that the article in question was of the sponsored sort and I realized that said …
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 …
There’s an excellent piece over at ClubOrlov that every aspiring VolksCruiser should read…
There’s a Columbia 26 for sale locally and I row past it just about every other day… The seller is currently asking too much, it’s beat up, and will take (maybe) too much work to make it an economic project at its current asking price. That said, it’s still one of the great small cruising …
Just about everything we do on boats is pretty simple so, every once in awhile, I find myself marveling at how difficult people make it or think it all is. It truly does boggle the mind… It’s not like the information is not readily available either. Most everything you need is either on the web …
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 …
I recently was looking at dinghy designs and this designers blurb caught my eye because he called his boat the anti-RIB. I like this guy! The boat in question is called “OONAGH” and here’s something from the study plans… “In traditional boating circles, it is a long cherished tradition to rail against inflatables, and there …
How, apparently, I’m not alone in my feeling towards RIBs… Read More »
Over at Simply Sailing Online there’s a post that makes a lot of sense… You really should read it if you have not already. I mention it because there are a lot of people who think that having stuff is what makes them safe. As opposed to something, shall we say, as mundane of being …
