a good read…
Attainable Adventure Cruising has a must read article up and you might want to check it out before it dissappears behind the paywall. You still here?
So, why don’t you build something?
Everyone needs a dinghy… Right? A couple of days ago I read a post about the cost of cruising. The problem was that it really wasn’t about the cost of cruising but a list of stuff they wanted to buy, most of which were really not needed. Of course, they felt they needed a bigger, …
A big part of the problem with boats…
Is that people just don’t make enough of their own shit. Boaters these days are consumers and it has not escaped my attention that a lot of folks look down at folk who actually do their own repairs, build things, and, you know, invent stuff that actually works on boats. Surf folk get it. Building …
a neat little junk rig cruiser…
I’ve been watching this boat on the market for a while… and why it has not been snapped up in an instant is something of a riddle to me. Sure it’s small but back when we spent a year in the Canary Islands there was a Storfidra 25 with a young family aboard who’d sailed …
$10K and a couple of plane tickets…
I’d like to visit Alaska by boat… I’ve been to Alaska a few times to do climbs but my only experience with boats in Alaska involved ferries and a too brief day in a big skiff trying to pull the lips off salmon. I mention this because yesterday I came across a rather nice sounding …
Bad habits…
Not too long ago someone mentioned to me that they could never live on a VolksCruiser or VolksCruising budget because of, you know… Comfort. The subject of watermakers were used as an example… I can’t help but get the feeling that a lot of what folks these days equate with the word comfort has …
Just a whole lot of DIY wonderfulness…
Sailrite is a great resource for anyone sailing and cruising but, for those of us on a budget, an indispensable tool in our VolksCruiser Fǔ arsenal.
Someone’s trying to sell you something…
Well, actually, everyone’s trying to sell you something these days. It’s relentless. Every day when I open my mail there are about a hundred or more scam emails trying to sell me something and of the remaining “real” email fully 95% of that is someone trying to sell me something or other. You get used …
Horsepower and sail area…
That somewhat sad and neglected Gemini catamaran is a great example of the more is better silliness where engines and horsepower come into play… Really, eighty horsepower? The Gemini is a light boat (some might even say TOO light) and it does not take a lot of power to make it get up and go. …