1 to 50…
Jay Fitzgerald (whose book should be on every VolksCruisers bookshelf) has mentioned that boat size should reflect muscle power and as far he could figure that 1 to 50 was the ratio that made sense. Offhand, I expect he’s pretty close to being right on the money… So, what does that work out to in …
An excellent resource for VolksCruiserish folk…
I really truly hate the words “yacht”, “yachtsman” and “yachting”… That said, Yachting Monthly is a magazine that should be on anyone’s reading list who’s concerned with going to sea in small boats because it has excellent content actually worth reading. Gee, what a concept… For instance, the current issue of Yachting Monthly has an …
About that budget thang…
I see that the $500 a month cruising budget is still an ongoing talking point and well should it be… Personally, I’m a big fan of the idea of having a budget and, in a world needful of some serious contraction, smaller real world budgets just make sense. But, the act of saying you’re on …
On why you might want a non-classic…
I like cheap boats… Truth is, if I see two boats for sale, one a beat up old CAL or some such and a pristine Swan or Hallberg Rassy, I go right to the beater. I suspect the reason behind it is the cheap fixer-upper gives me a sense of freedom… My dad used to …
Well, you might get lucky…
I recently read an article on a blog about a pretty interesting inflatable with a sailing rig not too unlike the old Tinker Tramp in concept… … but without the life raft elements. It caught my interest until I noticed that the article in question was of the sponsored sort and I realized that said …
like a ray of light on an overcast day…
I like multihulls… The problem is in the cheap seats. There is very little available or suited to a person on a small budget. Multihulls are mostly impractical for the cruiser on a budget and, as no one seems to want to design for what would be a reasonably large niche, it does not look …
Another boat to keep an eye out for…
There’s a Columbia 26 for sale locally and I row past it just about every other day… The seller is currently asking too much, it’s beat up, and will take (maybe) too much work to make it an economic project at its current asking price. That said, it’s still one of the great small cruising …
a different headspace…
Just about everything we do on boats is pretty simple so, every once in awhile, I find myself marveling at how difficult people make it or think it all is. It truly does boggle the mind… It’s not like the information is not readily available either. Most everything you need is either on the web …