WHO IS A MINIMALIST?
My favorite articles in Latitude are those about frugal cruising. So with the arrival of your July issue, the first story I read was One Storm, Two Muggings and A Circumnavigation. Creative cruisers usually have good ideas and maybe more fun, so I was pretty much in heaven reading Ed Hart’s article. That is, until I got to the part where you quote Hart as saying, “I was getting by on $600 to $800 a month.” Six hundred to $800 a month!? Hart is a “minimalist” who says “money isn’t the answer,” and that he’s able to “live inexpensively.” How can Don Cutty be his mentor when Hart lives on $8,000 to $9,000 a year which he says is sailing frugally? I wonder what Don Cutty would have to say about those monthly expenses? If Hart would break down his costs, I’d love to see where a man of “few vices” spends that kind of money. Say it ain’t so. Shawn Tuttle Los Angeles Shawn We realize that while spending an average of $23 a day to feed and clothe oneself, to outfit and maintain one’s boat, and
