Some quick thoughts on designing a VolkCruiser that makes sense…

I was recently involved in a discussion about what features a boat should have to be a successful VolksCruiser… It was a problematic enterprise. The hard part in discussing an enterprise of frugality in a consumerist world is that there is almost always a certain disconnect of logic. Face it, anyone with a consumerist mindset …

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What is Hip…

Hipness, what it is!Hipness, what it is!Hipness, what it is!And sometimes hipness is What it ain’t! Or so goes the refrain from Tower of Power’s best known song (as well as being one of my all time favorites). If you were to read today’s modern yachting rags you’d think that ever bigger and ostentatious catamarans …

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Stuff you need to know…

Off Center Harbor has a truly excellent two part video on sail trim featuring Carol Hasse that you might want to check out… It’s well worth the price of admission.

Color me simplistic…

The other day a friend wrote me complaining that the boat project he was thinking of building was getting scary expensive and he used winches as an example. The winches spec’d out for his design, even with a deep discount added up to somewhere just shy of $7K. Quite an “ouch” factor for a small …

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