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The ShantyboatLiving.com FORUM is a place to share questions and to provide answers and encouragement. For example: “Hello, Im in the process of building a floating sauna from a salvaged pontoon boat that I bought. I want to build her with our local white cedar and just use regular 2 x 4 construction. I...
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There isn’t much info on the site, but there are some ideas here. The site says: Quite simply, aluminium is the best shipbuilding material available commercially. From Car Ferries to little Cartoppers, all kinds of vessel are made from aluminium. It is the only material that can be used for making such a wide...
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Item: The Enjoy Old House Boat is delightfully outfitted with a variety of windows, cabinets, flooring, plumbing and furnishings all drawn from our stocks of architectural salvage! Website Originally posted 2011-11-14 08:03:44. Bryan LoweThe author of this post is also the editor of ShantyboatLiving.com. He has built several boats including...
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ShantyboatLiving.com correspondent Dan sent me links to some great old pictures over at the DenverPost.com. The site says, “From the late 1930s to 1969, amateur photographer Charles W. Cushman traveled the country documenting American life and landscapes with color photographs. Upon his death in 1972, he bequeathed his collection of 14,500 Kodachrome color slides...
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Ooo, graph paper! Getting fancy now. I’m trying to turn my shantyboat speculations into something that feels a little bit more tangible. When I sketch it out proportionally, the shanty boat is less long and skinny than I had drawn it. In fact, it looks like a tiny shanty. On a boat. I’d kind...
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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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