Not too long ago, someone wrote and asked me why I did not focus on catamarans because all the hip kids were cruising cats and I really should get with the program. Since, at least in my mind, I’m writing for blue collar or minimum wage folks and I just can’t get my head around how someone making $7.25 an hour is going to be able to cruise a forty-foot or larger cat.
When I pointed out this point the reply came that he/she did not want to camp and they’d never be happy on an old classic plastic that needs some TLC.
One of the first things that occurred to me while reading “Sailing in Place: Our Life Afloat in Southeast Alaska’s Archipelago (Sailing Simple: Means and Mindset)” by Dave Z and Anke I thought of sending the no-camping-cat-dude/dudette a copy because it would have been a needful wake up call to the real world on how cruising should or could work.
The book make a lot of sense.
Not unlike the great books on cruising by Margaret & Frank Dye who cruised a Wayfarer dinghy and did passages where folks on big cats today would hesitate to sail Dave and Anke are doing it their way and it’s working for them.
Seriously, if you only read one cruising book this year Sailing in Place: Our Life Afloat in Southeast Alaska’s Archipelago (Sailing Simple: Means and Mindset) should be it.
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