A quickie link…
Here’s a quick lesson on why you should shop where the commercial fishermen do…
A little further education…
There are a couple of ways to look at the need/want thing but it mostly boils down to looking at it with a positive approach or a negative one… If you start with a negative slant the whole need/want test is all about not being able to have something you want while, on the other …
News of note…
Some interesting news on the Pop 25 front…
An interesting link…
Just maybe, catamarans don’t have to be sillly expensive… Read about it here.
Speaking of VolksCruiserish boats being built…
Here’s a guy doing it right…
Working on boats…
Time, apparently, is a somewhat elusive concept where work and boats are concerned… The other day someone was telling me about a guy who’d taken 12 years to build a boat. As it happens, I built the same boat and it took me six months of work spread out over a year. So, the question …
On the difference between a makeover and a honeymoon…
Dick Dorworth makes some good points… Truth is, I’m not real big on advice… Sure, I might point you to places you can read up up on stuff so you have the information you need to make an informed decision but I’m not really that guy who tells you to do shit. Well… mostly. The …
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silk purses and sows ears…
There’s a Pearson 33 in not horrible shape on St Thomas going for $4000 and like most boats in the sub $5K bracket it will need some work. I’m guessing not a lot… Which is not to say you can’t turn a good deal on a boat into a bloody money pit because I see …
a quick thought…
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 …
Webb Chiles doing it…
Webb Chiles showing it can be done simply with a lot of style…