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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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From Vision Magazine. The Floating Homes of Sausalito by David O’ Neal Living on a houseboat is cool–cool like Andy Garcia, the Toyota Prius hybrid, mango ice-cream, and Independent voters. I moved to Sausalito recently from the East Coast and I intend to stay here. Nature around the Bay Area is startlingly diverse and...
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From the Triloboats.com FAQ: What are the advantages of the Barge shape? The prime advantage is a barge’s increased displacement. That means you can carry more stuff. A barge is very nearly a rectangle, which displaces the maximum amount on a given beam, draft and length. Any shape which carves away from that volume...
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Saw this on the updated FAQ of Triloboats.com Any last words? Yeah. Think about why we want a boat at all. Most of us want to get to Magic Harbor safe, sound and stylin’. We want to drop our hook, and settle in to enjoy some peace and quiet with our amenities close at...
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We were planning to use Bruce’s pontoon boat that he scored somewhere around the Lake Shasta area as the base for our shantyboat. In fact, it was Bruce’s pontoon score that gave us the green-light for this project. Not so sure about this now. Every boat has a buoyancy, a certain weight that it...
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Deek’s latest shantyboat adventure. You just have to check out his site at http://relaxshacks.com 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...
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When we last left our intrepid builder/designer, the shell of his boat was in the yard in the snow. No more. Here are the latest progress photos. Updated April 10, 2012 Update 1/22/2012 Original Concept Below Bryan LoweThe author of this post is also the editor of ShantyboatLiving.com. He has built several boats including...
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From the School Road Project Website Boat 1 – GT 27 HouseBoat To get experience fitting out a full scale boat, I bought some cheap plans for a house boat at http://www.bateau.com/proddetail.php?prod=GT27 It is a plywood and fibreglass design, easy to build hopefully, roomy craft for flitting and sitting around the Huon River in. The...
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From Craigslist Seattle: You still see a few of these traditional skagit river scows/sleds about. I hear they’ve been something of a tradition for a few decades. RIVER SCOW W/TRAILER – $1200 (BURLINGTON) Date: 2012-03-30, 1:04PM PDT Reply to: hzt9q-2925979097@sale.craigslist.org 65 HP MERCURY MOTOR, $1,200 OBO, CALL SHARON...
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William Woodbridge is a 21 year old second year university student. He has a unique way of looking at life and how he lives as a student is quite different than the usual. Williams lives in a teepee and a floating teepee at that. Will says “It’s deliciously hippyish.” Will decided to leave campus...
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