A good sharpie link…
For those of us on VolksCruiser budgets, it’s hard to argue with the fact that the best bang for the buck is going to be a sharpie… So here’s a great link to one in progress.
The thing is good deals do exist…
I saw an interesting boat for sale over at eBay… A Washington State based Coronado 35 for $6500 and, judging from the photos, a boat in pretty good condition considering it’s around 42 years old. Of course, like all boats for sale new or old it will have some sort of problem that needs dealing with …
A boat you should be aware of…
I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the Westerly Centaur… For one, it has that sort of clunky everyman thing going for it which is kind of refreshing. It’s not sleek, has zero pretensions, and looks just like you’d expect a budget sailboat for the masses to look. Which is some kind …
On money keeping you safe or keeping the riff raff out…
Over at Estrellita 5.10B (always a good read) they have a great post concerning fear and it got me thinking… As it happens, I was also trying to digest just why a thread about the possibility of a $15,000 bluewater cruiser over at Cruisers Forum irritated me so much. I’ve gone on record that I …
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The idiocy of the boat buck…
Talk about stuff that gets up my nose… Boat bucks! Not so much the fact that we, from time to time, have to spend money on our boats but the fact that we have been trained to think it is natural and proper to pay excessive money for goods and services and be proud of …
Reality check…
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 …
An excellent resource…
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 …
More needful stuff…
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 …
A neat cat and a thought…
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 …
and somewhere progress is being made…
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… …