VolksCruiser

Over the last five years or so I've regularly watched a YouTube channel of a guy who's bought a boat and embarked in a restoration. ...

This is about the time of year I perk up and pay attention to the various and sundry pre-boatshow press releases as there are usually some i...

The idea of self-steering is, for all practical purposes, a pretty simple concept and most all self-steering systems reflect that. Or at lea...

A quick update on the self-steering project. I now have all the various bits on island with the excepting of the needful wood which is just ...

So, yeah, about that new self-steering gear... Right now I'm in the process of getting all the bits together to assemble a kit to build ...

There's a cooking channel that I really enjoy by Joshua Weissman and one his features are recipes where he does some established dish a...

I read recently how Keith Leitzke has returned from another cruise to nowhere in particular and it got me thinking about a few things... Th...

A YouTube channel I have a love/hate relationship with has a Bluetooth enabled toilet and I just can't quite get my head around why one ...

The other day a reader dropped me a line where the subject of DIY came up and he pointed out that, unlike me, he could afford to hire folks ...

A Freedom cat ketch adapted to junk rig  I wrote this back in 2008 on Boat Bits but it seems to have held up for the most part... I suppose...