VolksCruiser

One of the things I've noticed with the advent of YouTube cruising video channels is that they seem to inspire all the wrong questions a...

I've been following the build of a Bolger design of late and it's akin to fingernails being dragged across a chalkboard to me. Admit...

Back in the dark ages, when I was living on a CAL 20, I went to a lecture by Herman Daly who really blew my mind with his thoughts on econom...

The popularity of the Bermuda rig has caused a general lack of knowledge on most other rigs and how to rig them. Luckily for us a few books ...

For some reason or other I found myself reading "Voyaging on a Small Income" by Annie Hill and realized that it's still the be...

I'm currently reading about a transatlantic voyage in the 60's on a Gunter rigged Westerly 22.  Color me impressed.

Checking Craigslist this morning I saw there was a Pearson Triton being sold off at a marina in the San Francisco Bay area for $750. You mig...

I mentioned this book by Keith Carver a couple of years ago but " Sailboat Cowboys Flipping Sail Post-Sandy: The Art of Buying, Repair...

I just read this and it has a whole lot of good common sense information that will save you some serious money. Need I say more?

The other day I came across a book that I hadn't heard about of the cruising persuasion. In point of fact, this one... There's...

A couple of days ago I saw there was a book on Kindle that looked like it might be interesting... This one in fact. At $2.99 it was ...

Fatty Goodlander has a new book out... I'll let Fatty tell you more about it. Nuff said,

This weekend I bought a copy of "Get Real, Get Gone" and read it. It's a good read, makes a whole lot of sense, and shou...

Enough said...

I bought "Tiny Floating Homes" by Chris Troutner and read it over the weekend. It's good. You should read it. Need I re...

Since we're ramping up to T-Day and the world continues to continue to do a very good imitation of a rocket propelled turbo-charged wick...

Since I began writing Boat Bits and VolksCruiser I've gotten a lot of mail on the question of whether it's possible to build or buy ...

I've been reading "Building the Uqbar Dinghy" and it really is a great book for those who want to build a good dinghy in a we...

I've been working on a better mast raising/lowering system for "So It Goes" and rereading all my various go to boatish books f...

I just started rereading "Cruising in Seraffyn" and I'm finding the rather stark contrasts with what passes for cruising toda...