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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 water and on the land for the last three years. His original idea was for a replica of an Erie...
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From Gizmag: The soothing sound of canal water gently lapping against wood as you fall into peaceful slumber has got to be one of the best ways to end a relaxing day of leisurely cruising past sights that many Londoners rarely glimpse. Doing so on a vessel that gets the power for its motor,...
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From GizMag: Exbury Egg is a floating off-grid workspace and home, installed on the shore of the Beaulieu River, UK. It was conceived by artist Stephen Turner, and created with the help of both Perring Architecture and Design, and SPUD design studio. The egg-shaped structure will support Turner for a year as he carries...
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Crystal River Boat Builders, a maritime heritage outreach program, works to complete the scow project. This documents construction to date. 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,...
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YouTube Clip Says: Toledo Boat Works launched a new boat Saturday, a B&B of sorts, meaning Boat & Breakfast rental tied up at the port docks. Renter providea their own breakfast, of course! Builder Rick Johnson wants to build three more just like her. The craft, not yet officially named, will now undergo finishing...
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An update on Dianne’s Rose. The launch party is set for June 15/ 1-10 pm, park 1, Wasaga Beach, Ontario. near the launch site-if good weather we will be giving rides on the beach side /if foul we’ll stay on the river side. Best/Roy And another launch: ” Mon scow est presque...
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The instant translation of the site says: ” Imagine, it’s summer. They sit on a raft, straw in mouth, straw hat on his head. Let your left foot dangling in the cool water with the right foot, you hold a fishing rod between the toes. You feel like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. A feeling of freedom...
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“Both the bottom paint and the topside paint went on really easily onto the smooth surface. Some “triloboats” have been built without any fiberglass sheathing at all, but one builder suggested it was worth investing in fiberglass just for its merits for painting. Paint applied directly to plywood often cracks or peels due to...
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Written by Paul Malo posted on September 16, 2007 10:22 The Clark family of Comfort Island in 1893 acquired the first houseboat on the river, the Comfort (later Balboa). As Paul Malo has related inFools’ Paradise, houseboats became the rage of the 1890s. Size increased quickly, growing within a decade from the Clarks’ tiny Comfort to the Boldts’ gigantic La Duchesse (1904), which...
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The river Loire longest river in France and known as the Royal highway was once a main artery for transporting goods and people in central France. Always a difficult river with many shallows and shifting channels it gave rise to a series of very particular sailing barges or flats. There has been a huge...
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