Someone recently asked me what a VolksCruiser should cost and I had to actually think about it for a while before an answer came to me… The whole premise of a VolksCruiser is that it’s affordable to a section of people totally ignored by the Powers That Be. Of course, that leaves us with the …
Lately I’ve found it interesting how the tiny house brigade has recently discovered that boats are excellent appropriate-sized dwellings. The real question is… What the hell took them so long? Anyone familiar with boats and cruising watching the tiny house movement evolve has found it something of a frustrating experience. Partly because they’ve been re-inventing …
Maybe we’re talking about stuff all wrong… Forget the money. Seriously, as anyone who has taken a couple of college level economics classes knows, money is really just an artificial construct and, at best, is simply a means of counting virtual beans. Now if you stop to think about it, what exactly does a pile …
maybe we should actually be talking about value… Read More »
There’s a really excellent post over at The World Encompassed which you might want to read…
Something to send to those folks telling you a 28-foot sailboat is too small.
I get quite a few letters of the “But-it’s-no-longer-possible-to-cruise-old-school” sort so here’s a link to Speedwell of Hong Kong which shows it’s not only possible but being done in some style. Nuff said.
OK, I have to admit that VolksCruiser services a certain, shall we say, niche group of folks somewhat outside what passes for the sailing and cruising mainstream… But, who are you really? More importantly, what would you like to see more of on VolksCruiser and why? As they say comments are open…
Have you noticed that almost no one still makes manual windlasses anymore and, that the few who do sell them for more than their more-expensive-to-build power versions? Curious that.
The other day, a reader who often drops me mail to let me know I’m an idiot, directed me to a thread on a forum regarding a woman’s decision to buy a cheap RV stove for a couple of hundred dollars instead of a “proper” marine one for a couple of thousand… Silly man. First …
Yes, a thirty foot Skrowl… “Un bateau de 9m pour l’habitabilité d’un 11m, les performances d’un 10m, le coût d’un 8m et le temps de construction d’un 7m…”— Yann Quenet
