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From Modern Mechanix http://blog.modernmechanix.com/floating-cottages/ Bryan LoweThe author of this post is also the editor of ShantyboatLiving.com. He has built several boats including the Escargot pictured at left. Note: Join in the shantyboat community discussion. Leave your comments, questions and thoughts below. You can also join in the discussoin on the Shantyboat forum HERE. Submit...
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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 have passed under her svelte canoe...
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The Cowes Floating Bridge, Isle Of Wight March 21, 2012 by TidiousTed The 1896 bridge was the first built by Whites of Cowes. In 1909 the ferry received the newer boiler from the 1882 ferry which was being withdrawn. The ferry was sold to yacht builderUffa Fox around 1925, who used it as both workshop and house. ...
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Updates: See comments below for some interesting thoughts on this concept. With the feedback below in mind, and after thinking through my eventual “needs” for such a project, I’ve come up with a new cross section. The bottom panel of the boat will be 8 feet wide. The total width dimension will increase...
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The ShantyboatLiving.com forum is gaining more posts each day. This is one post that needs to move out front: Name: wolfgang Date: January 22, 2012, 15:07 Reply Content: After a few great years and a lot of sweat and tears its time to pass my boat on down the line and go back to...
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A floating catamaran suite, meant to lure a broader target group of nature lovers, and to help them understand the beauty and importance of nature and the importance of protecting it. The floating cottage enhances the experience you can have when surrounded by nature. Learn more. Thanks to Shantyboatliving.com reporter Dan. ...
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As I float through the sloughs north of Seattle I often think how nice it would be to have a little retreat in the top of one of the trees. No matter the weather or the flood stage, a secret hideaway… a vantage point nestled in the trees. Deek says…. A brand new micro-green...
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From the pen and the mind of RelaxShacks.com Derek! Bryan LoweThe author of this post is also the editor of ShantyboatLiving.com. He has built several boats including the Escargot pictured at left. Note: Join in the shantyboat community discussion. Leave your comments, questions and thoughts below. You can also join in the discussoin on the...
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I was pushing it, and I knew it. I’d been working on my little microshantyboat, off and on, for coming up on two years. Mostly off. Now that I could start to see elements of boat in it, I wanted to try it out. My son said I was pushing it and...
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From Big Annie: The Wanigan: A sort of houseboat typically used during log drives as a cook shanty, bunkhouse, supply boat, or as a place for rivermen to dry their clothes. Scow or hull construction varied with the demands of local waterways. Many had hulls of hewn lumber. Those used in perilous waters might...
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