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From the Web: Hammacher Schlemmer made good on its promise to offer “the best, the only and the unexpected” with this $91,100 floating suite. (The suite is no longer part of the company’s inventory; its website lists it as “Sold Out”) Each UFO-looking structure offered 150-square-feet of living space. It was designed to be...
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Paleotool’s Weblog: I can safely say that plans for this wagon began to formulate about six or seven years ago. After reading “The English Gypsy Caravan” I was very impressed by this type of wagon as it evolved in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Though not designed by the travelers themselves, they were...
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So what, exactly, is a BBQ Donut? It’s odd… it’s clever… it gets one thinking… ok, it’s really odd: The bbq-donut® – the unique leisure experience and the business expansion for your site! The bbq-donut® is a circular boat (sports boat authorization is granted), in the middle of which a standard charcoal grill is...
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First, it’s a mystery on the Thames. Then… it runs aground! MYSTERY still surrounds the future of a distinctive barge moored off the coast of Leigh. The houseboat, which featured on Channel 4 TV programme Grand Designs, has been in the Thames Estuary between Chalkwell and Leigh since the summer. East London couple Chris...
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houseboat 1 Eco Factor: Houseboat propelled by solar energy. Presently all houseboat designs limit innovation and their travel is limited to calm waterways, rivers, inlets and bays. The reason you can’t take your houseboat to the open ocean is that their flat bottom top heavy design provides no underlying support, which is necessary to prevent...
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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 In 1909 the ferry received the newer boiler from the 1882 ferry which was being withdrawn.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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Well… the idea of spending good money building a radio controlled English canal boat is pretty far from the “shantyboat” mindset, but let’s chalk this up to plain old fun. And while we are at it… an RC Plane landing on a vacation style houseboat, too. Originally posted 2011-11-20 11:29:10. Bryan LoweThe author...
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What looks like an iceberg in the middle of a lake or a half-melted marshmallow is actually is an experimental living structure inhabited by art students. Indianapolis Island is an art piece created by Andrea Zittel and inhabited this summer by art students Jessica Dunn and Michael Runge. It is one of the eight...
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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, including Queen Elizabeth II, John Wayne, Tom Cruise, Chow Yun-fat and Gong...
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From the website RiverBills.com, A boater comes across an old rusting hulk of a houseboat and stumbles across a beauty with a past. Our River Picture of the Day —— is of the old houseboat Ma Belle setting on the Missouri bank of the Mississippi River near South Shore Marina around UMR 226. This old rusting hull...
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