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Long and Slender

Long and Slender

Most Shantyboats are built like barges…  their square shape seen as a logical way to maximize space and ease the build.   And then there is this boat…. Wind Horse has finished her seventh season of cruising, there are 5600 hours on her engines, and more than 50,000 miles...
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HUGE Floating Restaurant

HUGE Floating Restaurant

This floating restaurant makes your typical houseboat or shantyboat look more like a floating dustpan.  Jumbo Kingdom Website. Jumbo Kingdom  consists of the Jumbo Floating Restaurant (珍寶海鮮舫) and the adjacent Tai Pak Floating Restaurant (太白海鮮舫), renowned tourist attractions in Aberdeen South Typhoon Shelter, within Hong Kong’s Aberdeen Harbour. Over 30 million visitors have visited Jumbo Kingdom,...
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Bow of Ship Becomes Cabin in the Woods

Bow of Ship Becomes Cabin in the Woods

Amazing, Amazing, Amazing:  The retired cement carrier Lewis G. Harriman was scheduled to be scrapped on 2003. Her forward cabins were purchased by Marc and Jill Vander Meulen to be relocated to their summer cottage near DeTour Village. This pictorial history shows the progress of her scrapping and...
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Building the PRIDE OF BUFFALO – Day One

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- June 17, 2013 Construction – Day 1 I woke late. Left for Home Depot at 10:00 am. I was excited and worried. I was quite sure about the design of boat, especially after...
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Solar-powered floating prefab room

Solar-powered floating prefab room

From HomeCrux:  Not everyone would fancy the idea of a floating home – or an extra floating room per se. But the same cannot be said about Sandell brothers, who along with Swedish prefab...
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The Weekes Erie Canal GeoHouseboat. Update

The Weekes Erie Canal GeoHouseboat. Update

Who:  Mike Weekes is an engineer, boat designer, museum founder and business performance consultant from Buffalo, NY who has been developing a concept for a sustainable, low-cost, capable, innovative living space for on the...
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“Hippie” Houseboat India

“Hippie” Houseboat India

The site says…. “Houseboat Sunbeam, Dal Lake, owned by Mr Dandoo (Dandoos Palace). Although we were staying there the sign Vacant was not removed. We stayed for a settled price which was lower than ‘normal’ tourists payed. It was quite nice, the boat was designed for colonial British tourists who used to go to...

Building Mosquito Ghost

Building Mosquito Ghost

She wasn’t always called the Mother Ship. You see one day a friend of mine took her out for a weekend of boating with his 2 brothers and they spent a quiet Sunday afternoon launching clay pigeons off the sun deck and blasting away with their 12 guage shot guns. Seems the granola heads...

Pico Boating

15 Feet in Paradise: Supplies

15 Feet in Paradise: Supplies

Mindy says:  LITTLE CRUISER  is our fifteen foot sharpie designed and built by our...

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Pico Boating: Templates to Frames

Honestly, I’m not much of one to do work around the house.  I find...

Building a Micro 10? Prepare to Spend a Fortune.   Or is it?

Building a Micro 10? Prepare to Spend a Fortune. Or is it?

I’m thinking I want to build a pico boat… the Selway Fisher Micro 10....


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