A CAL 27 in Hawaii…
Mongo averaged something like 125 miles a day on it’s 20-day engineless passage from California to Hilo Hawaii… More about it here.
an apt quote…
“The more you know, the less you need.” -Yvon Chouinard Is it just me or does that quote pretty much give away the secret of successful VolksCruising?
about that list…
I’m pretty sure what appeals to a lot of people in the whole sailing off into the sunset scenario has a lot to do with, depending on your social perspective, either freedom or escape. What was it Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster had to say on the subject of freedom? “Freedom’s just another word for …
an educational conundrum…
I find it interesting that in the sailing world so much emphasis is devoted to having the best of the best and how little emphasis there is the the process of learning how to use it… So, just why is sailing education so unpopular here in the states? People take classes to learn to ski …
a good book…
Just maybe, the most influential book I’ve read relating to boats, boatbuilding, and cruising is not a book about boats or sailing at all… John Muir was a smart guy, a man who understood the importance of breaking things down to basic elements, and someone who never let someone else telling him something was simply …
Camping…
The other day I noticed there was a Bolger sharpie for sale up in Alaska on Craig’s list… It got me thinking. First the idea of buying a boat for cheap up in Alaska, sailing it around for the season, and then selling it or even giving it away makes for an extremely cheap five …
You know, I still miss that van…
Dave Z and I were just having a discussion about the downside of standing out… Back when I was in college I had a job building snowshoes and one of my tasks was painting the snowshoes with an international orange paint. It was really bright paint. As it was also a linear polyurethane paint, we …
a couple of notes regarding engines and suchlike…
Lin Pardey recently took to a cruising forum to counter some of the misunderstanding going on regarding the whole engineless thing… The thread is actually worth reading as Ms Pardey makes sense and reading a lot of the posts will give you some understanding about how elusive common sense is when discussion of engines, basic …
a couple of notes regarding engines and suchlike… Read More »
Some more volkscruiser proa news…
Michael Schacht of ProaFile has released a couple of interior renderings of “Herbie” his new in-progress proa design… Better yet, he’s hinted that a forty-foot version which, I expect, has some folks (myself included) doing the happy dance. For more info check out the continuing thread…
On making money…
Here’s an excellent and concise post on the current thinking on making money while cruising. Definitely worth your time.