I'll believe it when I see a bunch of rich dudes doing perp walks, Lat 38 weighs in on the Italian tax, and in a world with real problems what new laws are in the works?
Several readers apparently want to know what I'd consider a VolksCruiser and the best I can seem to come up with is it all depends...
Obviously, it has to be affordable and by affordable we do not mean affordable by someone with a trust fund or a Swiss bank account so let's just say something a blue collar worker or someone who works at the local Starbucks can put together with some hard work and a bit of sacrifice. So, for the sake of argument, let's say the VolksCruiser is going to set you back somewhere south of $25K.
Ah, I can hear you saying to yourself "But, I can't get a boat for less than $25K!"... Well as luck (or the destruction of our economy) would have it, there are a lot of cheap boats out there... Go to Craiggers and do a search for sailboats under $10K and you will see lots of interesting boats there for a lot less...
Because the VolksCruiser needs to be affordable to sail and keep up, it most likely would be under forty-feet in length and not a multihull (Hey, I LIKE multihulls but you're simply not going to find one or keep it sailing on a VolksCruiser budget). The smaller the boat the easier it is to keep things cheap and as the saying goes...
"Small boat small problems"More on the subject tomorrow...
Listening to The Flying Burrito Bros
So it goes...
