VolksCruiser

A while back we were talking about the cost of boats and boat building and how it could be best expressed in terms of cost per pound/displa...

Mongo averaged something like 125 miles a day on it's 20-day engineless passage from California to Hilo Hawaii... More about it here...

“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...

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 ...

Just maybe, the most influential book I've read relating to boats, boatbuilding, and cruising is not a book about boats or sailing at al...

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...

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...

Lin Pardey recently took to a cruising forum to counter some of the misunderstanding going on regarding the whole engineless thing... Th...

Michael Schacht of ProaFile has released a couple of interior renderings of "Herbie" his new in-progress proa design... Be...