VolksCruiser

Now that you've had some time to think about the lug schooner rig (though we'll be coming back to it in a post or two) let's loo...

I was recently involved in a discussion about what features a boat should have to be a successful VolksCruiser... It was a problematic enter...

Yesterday, over at Boat Bits , I mentioned a French boat I like that I thought was overpriced... Then again, some astute observers might poi...

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 ...

Off Center Harbor has a truly excellent two part video on sail trim featuring Carol Hasse that you might want to check out... It's wel...

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...

The other day a friend wrote me complaining that the boat project he was thinking of building was getting scary expensive and he used winche...

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...

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

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