The other day while avoiding some needful sanding of fiberglass I found myself intrigued by one of those never ending threads on a forum about sailboat gear… As usual, someone popped up and stated categorically that if something costs more it’s better and the old chestnut “you get what you pay for” is a stone …
Happiness is a place between too little and too much. -Finnish proverb The other day I read something from a couple who referred to their Brewer designed Whitby 42 as a “small” boat. They also remarked about how that they had to give up a lot as well as become super resourceful to make …
To steal a line from Dickens… “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” From where I sit those words have a lot to do with the current state of affairs where boats are concerned. I’m not sure if …
I’ll get this out of the way from the GetGo… Affordable IS important. So, back to the list: Affordable to build or buy Affordable to cruise and maintain on a tight budget The hard part when the word affordable comes into play is it means different things to different people. What’s affordable to a person …
So, having had the want list percolate for a couple of days I find pretty much everything on the list can pretty much be reclassified to go into the “Need” list… The exceptions being: Shoal draft (1 meter or less) That will dry more or less upright Outboard motor Standing headroom (6’6″) would be nice …
This TED talk really struck a chord for me. It has nothing to do with boats and Need/Want lists yet everything to do with boats and Need/Want lists…
Such as it is. What I want… A boat that’s seaworthy Shoal draft (1 meter or less) That will dry more or less upright Affordable to build or buy Affordable to cruise and maintain on a tight budget Simple user servicable redundant systems Outboard motor Integrated wind vane self-steering A comfortable double bed at least …
There are times when reading the yachting press (in those rare times when my scum sucking zinio app actually works) that I feel that we’re not looking at boats anymore but some crazed rendering of the “Blind men and an elephant” sort… A while back when I was talking about the Columbia 26, a lot …
It’s interesting what will send folks to their keyboards to tell me I’m misinformed.This week’s trigger word seemed to be 20-feet. So, here’s a layout for a 20-foot sailboat you could easily cruise in… The boat in question is the Pop 20 from BG Yacht Design… It’s a pretty cool boat. Somewhere between a CAL …
How things change… Back in 1996 when we were in the Canaries waiting for the the trades to kick in so we could sail to Martinique, our boat, “Loose Moose 2”, at 38 feet was actually larger than the average cruising boat. My guesstimate at the time was that the typical cruising boat averaged somewhere …
