I have to admit I really don’t like internal combustion engines when they are part of a sailboat. Partly because they’re dirty foul things that take a disproportionate chunk of the cost of owning a boat. I mention this because I recently caught a review of a Sigmadrive unit that made a strong case for …
So, yeah, about that Islander 36 project boat… Confronted with a boat like the Islander, my first impression is “Ugh”. My second is “Get rid of all the crap and clean the sucker up and there might be a good boat in there somewhere”. And, my third reaction is “I need to do the math!”. …
Yesterday, while making a list of stuff I need to procure, the thought crossed my mind that boat stuff, more than likely with the incoming regime, is going to become a whole lot more expensive in a hurry. For that matter, everything is going to cost more than we’d like with maybe the exception of …
I’ll admit that watching the current POTUS-elect fill his cabinet with the execrable and dimmest folks he can find is just a bit unsettling. Of course, the real unsettling part of the mix is about 50% of the population of the US of A thinks he’s doing a great job. Apparently, I live in a …
Just another day in the time of flying excrement… Read More »
For starters, it’s a monohull somewhere between 26 and 38 feet long and, while there are a few outliers, the average falls somewhere around 30 feet. By current “Yachting” standards it is too old to be fashionable and its age is somewhere on the wrong side of 25. The main thing you can say about …
I know how I feel but Chuck Wendig says it so much better than I can so you should read his take on this whole damn clusterfuck. For the future, as it stands, VolksCruiser is going to be mostly about lifeboats and getting gone. Deal with that however you care to. Facebook Twitter Share this …
As it happens, my project lists have become so unmanageable it’s just time to circular-file them and start anew. Or, in other words, get a just-the-basics need/want list that makes sense. For starters, I’ll be doing something different and narrow the number of projects on the list to ten items because “ten” is a doable …
So, less than a week till we see whether the current ball of airborne excrement hits the rotating blades or not, Which, when you think about it, is not all that different than what we do every day during “H” season which is, mostly, just wait and hope. Just for the record the whole wait …
I’ve never been much of a fan of cruising to a schedule and planning long voyages just makes my head hurt. Yeah, I’m looking at you Jimmy Cornell. Trying to make sense of getting to where I want to go from where I happen to be at the moment can be problematic (at best). Throw …
