Want to know something that may surprise you? I wish I had a smaller boat. Oh sure, to be honest I do, from time to time, want a bigger boat but mostly I want something smaller. The advantages of a bigger boat (being able to carry more stuff and have a bit more speed) quickly …
Anyone considering doing the whole VolksCruiser gig really needs to bookmark Atom Voyages and read it on a regular basis. Really. I’ve lost track of the number of clever and (dare I say it?) cunning ideas and projects I’ve found there that made all kinds of sense. Which, as you may have discovered, is something …
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 …
Like a lot of folks I’ve been keeping a weather eye on the progress being made on the Skrowl 4.34… For instance, I know for a fact Dave Z has had something of a eureka moment when he came across the design and, I expect, it’s going to be an influence on future Trilo boats… …
Not all that long ago, having a VHF radio aboard was considered something of unneeded luxury. Fact of the matter is, I recall quite vividly a certain British yachting magazine doing a frothing-at-the-mouth editorial about how the introduction of affordable VHF would rot the sinews of seamanship… How times do change. Today I can still …
Now here’s something (yet another cruising rally) of zero interest to folks thinking about VolksCruisers and frugal cruising scenarios. That said, I mention it because for the fees involved to do an Atlantic circuit with this particular economic black hole, you could cruise quite comfortably or go a long way toward buying or building yourself …
Sorta/kinda touching on the whole what it costs to cruise can of worms… Read More »
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…
