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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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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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Photos of a proposed Bolger canal boat from Bruce Holman, who said…”This simple, low horsepower, light weight 24 footer seems like it would make a great family comfortable camping cruising platform. I think Bolger predicted 7.5hp would cruise at 6 mph, and he drew in a second motor mount because a second motor could...
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Feb 4, 2013 The decking is all complete now. It looks good and works well. It forms a nice level, uncluttered area forward of the cabin. The pressure treated boards should last a long time and I still intend to stain them light grey after they dry out a bit. The new gunnel boards...
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Amazing, Amazing, Amazing: The retired cement carrier Lewis G. Harriman was scheduled to be scrapped on 2003. Her forward cabins were purchased by Marc and Jill Vander Meulen to be relocated to their summer cottage near DeTour Village. This pictorial history shows the progress of her scrapping and the move of her forward cabin...
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A Guest Post by Rod Edens: Jan 26, 2013. Previous Installments. Work continues on the Shanty Trawler. The decking is almost done. The deck boards are supported by “joists” a few inches above the old deck. The new deck is flat and level, whereas the original sailboat deck was arched and sloped...
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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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Remember the videos: ”Houseboat by Roy Schreyer” and “New Houseboat”? And then there was our second report. There’s new information from the builder who says: “So far several Study Plans have been sent out, one to Australia! The full plans should be available in the beginning of summer.” Bryan LoweThe author of...
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A Guest Post by Rod Edens: Jan 4, 2013 Here’s the third “progress” report on the construction of the Shanty Trawler. Work moved along slowly the week leading up to Christmas. The weather was fine, but shopping, visiting, eating, etc… You know how it goes. Now that Santa has come and gone, I’m back...
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