VolksCruiser

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...

A family of six on an engineless Ericson 28.  Most certainly a channel I'll be following.

Truth is, I never feel very comfortable with the concept of rules and there's a line from a book I read in high school that has stuck wi...

Is it just me or am I the only one who's noticed the somewhat alarming fact that you can now buy cans of gas for your outboard for $7.9...

Tad Roberts has a new design in the works which, I expect, I'll be telling you a lot more about in the next week or so, but for the m...

The other day while avoiding some needful sanding of fiberglass I found myself intrigued by one of those never ending threads on a forum abo...

There are times when reading the yachting press (in those rare times when my scum sucking zinio app actually works) that I feel that we'...

One problem with buying into the out-of-control-consumerism gig is that the first thing to go is anything that passes for critical thinking....

Maybe we're talking about stuff all wrong... Forget the money. Seriously, as anyone who has taken a couple of college level economics ...

Hipness, what it is! Hipness, what it is! Hipness, what it is! And sometimes hipness is What it ain't! Or so goes the refrain from ...

"In these days of depleted bankrolls,'cheap' yachts are a matter of importance to most of us" . - Howard Chapelle 

Here's something of a conundrum... You live on a rock with a finite number of resources and there's plenty of proof that a lot of ...

“The more you know, the less you need.”                                        -Yvon Chouinard Is it just me or does that quote prett...

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 yo...

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 b...

Jay Fitzgerald (whose book should be on every VolksCruisers bookshelf) has mentioned that boat size should reflect muscle power and as far ...

There's a beat up fixer-upper for sale down here that I've had my eye on for a while... a Kenner Skipjack to be precise. As boats go...

The other day I heard that a boat I knew who anchored not far from us in St Martin was in the South Pacific... I mention this because the ...

In Rodger Martin's recent IBEX talk about sharpies he said something that resonated for me... "In the last couple of years while...

Just out of curiosity I was looking at the list of this year's ARC Rally boats and it makes some interesting reading... I'll sum ...