Part II of the great Catamaran versus Monohull debate. Part I is posted here, Cat vs. Mono – The Great Debate. So we’ve covered a lot of ground so far. Cost, Maintenance, Engines, Heeling, Deck Space, etc. Now we just need to take a look at a few more variables and … Read More
Cat vs. Mono — The Great Debate
All right, so this subject has never been broached before. Right? Cat versus Mono? No? Good, then I’ll be the first to discuss it. Ali and I sailed around the world on a 35′ Wildcat Catamaran. We returned, sold the boat, drove around for a couple of years in a … Read More
PayPal Button, Is it Begging?
The PayPal topic has come up lots of times regarding my website. On Bumfuzzle, at the bottom of the menu column is a little PayPal button that currently reads, We Sail So You Don’t Have To. In the past it has variously said things such as, Buy the Bums a … Read More
How to Name a Boat
Or rather, how not to name a boat. Every year BoatUS posts the top ten boat names based on orders they receive for decals. Frankly, these names are crap. Here are the 2011 winners. You just know that these lean heavily toward the powerboat market, as they have no common … Read More
Are Blue and Pink Jobs Sexist?
I recently received one of those one-line un-signed Hotmail e-mails that we get ever few months. This one proceeded to call me all the -ists. I’m an elitist, a racist, and a sexist. None of which really need be addressed. My actions and my lifestyle pretty much sum up … Read More
Interview with SAIL Magazine
The Bumfuzzles’ Liveaboard Lifestyle By Lindsey Silken • Posted: May 22, 2012 If you haven’t started following Pat and Ali Schulte’s blog on our sister site, Sailfeed.com, you’re missing out on the following: intimate details of the day-to-day of circumnavigating with young kids, adorable snapshots of said kids, lessons learned when fixing a … Read More
What Our Bluewater Boat Cost
I recently read an article by Charlie Doane titled Bluewater Sailing On a Budget, about the purchase of his first bluewater sailboat in 1994. Adjusted for inflation he paid about $65,000 to purchase and outfit a boat for circling the Atlantic in. I enjoyed reading it and thought I’d write … Read More
Spindrift Cost
What will our second sailing adventure cost? Hopefully a lot less than our first. We’re starting out this time in a much different frame of mind and with a much different type of boat. We bought our Spindrift for a little less than half of what other Spindrifts were on the … Read More
November 2011
01-Nov-2011 our life. daily. puerto vallarta, mexico. We took Lowe in to get some vaccination shots today. They are free at the clinic in town where we talked with a doctor for a few minutes and then were given the shots by a couple of very nice nurses. Ali does not … Read More
October 2011
01-Oct-2011 our life. daily. sayulita, mexico. October already. Christ, that means we’ve got one month of paid slip fees left and then prices get jacked for the winter. And that means we’ve got a lot of work to do. But we’re not moving back aboard for another two weeks, so … Read More
September 2011
Sep-2011 our life. daily. puerto vallarta, mexico. Sick day for Ouest. Still no fever, but the nose and cough are enough to keep her down. Once again she was begging to go to bed hours before her bedtime. So to bed she went. Hopefully we can keep Lowe from catching it. I didn’t … Read More
August 2011
02-Aug-2011 our life. daily. puerto vallarta, mexico. The countdown begins. We went to the doctor today for a check-up and confirmed again that everything is going good in there. The baby weighs six pounds nine ounces now and we were even able to watch it breathe amniotic fluid in and out. … Read More