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Ideas: Pilot House Trawler Conversion

January 5, 2013
Ideas: Pilot House Trawler Conversion

For sale.  Price:  $64750 — CAPE CHURCHILL’s spacious, open-plan salon and galley are perfect for a single or couple. Her professional conversion offers “all the comforts ofhome”, including a good-sized master stateroom w/enclosed head and basin on the upper deck. There’s a second private sleeping cabin under the fore deck and a full-sized shower,...
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Video: 1 Sheet Plywood Dinghy

January 1, 2013
Video: 1 Sheet Plywood Dinghy

  A One sheet glass bottomed boat in an hour or so.  Yeah, that’s Shantyboat enough:   From YouTube:  http://GardenFork.TV Learn how to make a plywood boat on GardenFork.TV I decided to try to build my own plywood boat after watching Deek of RelaxShacks.com and MakeZine.com make a one sheet plywood boat. a great father-kid...
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Sailboat into Shantyboat, Part Two

December 19, 2012
Sailboat into Shantyboat, Part Two

Guest Post:  Rod Edens.  See part one. As you recall, in the first installment, I talked about the things that led up to the idea of building a simple, inexpensive, Shanty Trawler.  And, I listed the reasons I thought starting with an old 21 foot sailboat made a lot of sense to me. Well,...
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Millie Hill Houseboat For Sale

December 16, 2012
Millie Hill Houseboat For Sale

20′ MILLIE HILL HOUSEBOAT – $17795 (KETCHIKAN) Date: 2012-12-11, 4:20PM PST Reply to: see below SBL Editor note:  This is the first version of the Millie Hill by Devlin.  See design page.  See version two. 20′ X 8′ BARGE GALV TANDEM AXEL TRAILER 25 HP EVINRUDE VERY VERY LOW HOURS EPOXY SATURATED CONSTRUCTION BUILT BY SAM...
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Guest Post: A 21 foot Shanty Trawler – Inexpensive and Easy to Build

December 11, 2012
RetroCruiser Sketch 12-11-2012

Most of my life I’ve been a sailboat guy and have owned several sailboats ranging in size from 21 to 25 feet. When the wind did not cooperate, I was always content to simply motor along at about 5 mph. It doesn’t take much power to move a sailboat hull through the water at...
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Wasserkutsche – a coach for cruising on the waterways.

December 3, 2012
Wasserkutsche – a coach for cruising on the waterways.

Written by Sebastian Ohly: A coach on the waterways – that was what Jan Rademacher, a boatbuilder from Berlin, thought when he built his first boat in 2010 for operating a houseboat rental company. Consequently he labeled his canal boats Wasserkutsche – the German expression for a coach on the water. Now in 2012, Wasserkutsche...
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Video: River Cruiser Idea

November 26, 2012
Video:  River Cruiser Idea

As found on YouTube: A river cruiser in the tradition of Bolger with some Australian Storer influence. Conceived in sustainable construction and electrically propelled this cruiser is intended for the rivers, sounds & estuaries of the eastern US. We have no further contact info for this person. You can try through his YouTube posting....
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More on Cheap Houseboat Plans

November 25, 2012
More on Cheap Houseboat Plans

New post.. As found on YouTube: Cheap to build, own and operate this boat is intended to be built by the backyard builder as construction is straight forward with templates for curves. Extreme shallow draft, 6″, allows access to the thinnest water. Study plans now available at royschreyer@gmail.com Previous Article Bryan LoweThe author of...
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Micro Shanty on Land

November 23, 2012
Micro Shanty on Land

Found on YouTube: “The shelter has a thermal isolation for protection of harms caused bay winter and summer. A cart bay day for mobility and a “house” (shelter) bay night or bad weather. The mobile shelter was designed has an academic project for the H.I.T by Jacob Savariego” Bryan LoweThe author of this post...
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Shantyboats of the Czech Republic

November 18, 2012
Shantyboats of the Czech Republic

A few videos of the many and varied Shantyboats of Lake Orlik:   Thanks to ShantyboatLiving.com reporter Dan Hohman. 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...
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