Welcome to ShantyboatLiving.com

Please sign in.

We will never release your email address to another party.!

Member Login
Lost your password?
Not a member yet? Sign Up!

Lifestyle

Food Journal: Making Cheese and…

May 22, 2013
Food Journal: Making Cheese and…

Ricotta cheese spreads with garlic and Italian seasoning. Swedish Gjtost cheese spread. Greek yogurts with fresh raspberry puree. Fresh ginger sparkling water. Home grown blue oyster mushrooms and fresh garden tomatoes in homemade bread. Of late I’ve been enjoying time in the kitchen, time making foods from scratch, living life as though I had...
Read More »

The DIY Mandate: Do It Yourself!

May 21, 2013
The DIY Mandate: Do It Yourself!

By Rustin WrightNever throw anything away you can't retrieve at low tide.Codger's advice as passed on by Mike McConnell I'm a sucker for manifestos... pithy declarations of basic principles. Here's a brace of 'em for the DIY Revolution. Follow links pr...
Read More »

Take a Look at the Pre Departure Boating Checklist

May 19, 2013
Take a Look at the Pre Departure Boating Checklist

Boating is one of the most enjoyable outdoor activities known to man. The vast open water, the wind in the hair, the thrill of cruising on the blue water is a better option than paying some hundred dollars to a therapist for an hour long session.  No matter how tired or exhausted you are,...
Read More »

Houseboat with a Past

May 17, 2013
Houseboat with a Past

Heather Wilcoxon grew up visiting the Hollywood sets of her actor parents (her father played Marc Antony opposite Claudette Clobert in Cecil B. DeMille’s Cleopatra and her mother played Brenda Starr in the original tv series), but at age 20 she left all that behind to move aboard a boat and for the past...
Read More »

Floating Your Boat – Musings on Wherewithal (Income)

May 16, 2013
Floating Your Boat – Musings on Wherewithal (Income)

  Well it comes in pretty handy on this planet, Pal! Tony Rice, speaking of Money   Money. Moola. Filthy lucre. I hate it. I want some!   The chain linking our culture to subsistent lifestyles has been broken. We’re left reinventing the wheel in diminished environments. We are distracted from this pursuit by...
Read More »

Electricity in a NutShell

May 15, 2013
Electricity in a NutShell

Nikola Tesla, Boat Electrician ExtraordinaireThere are few areas, in boating, that attract more gew-gaws, gizmos and gimcrackery than the electrical system.Time was, nobody had one. Oil lamps for cabin, anchor and running lights. Lead lines for soundin...
Read More »

Hitler “Discusses” Liveaboards

May 11, 2013
Hitler “Discusses” Liveaboards

If you are offended by Adolf Hitler being used in a bit of political satire or offended by strong language, please do not watch this video. There is a battle going on in Washington State… near Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound in particular… about liveaboards.   It’s a “conversation” that is happening across the...
Read More »

River Maneuvers

May 9, 2013
River Maneuvers

Alluvial (River) Flats... Light blue is dry-out zone, deep blue is deep water.  It had been a beautiful, but stormy autumn. We'd been heading down Lynn Canal / Chatham Straits, a 200 mile long wind cannon, after visiting with my Brother's family n...
Read More »

May 4, 2013

Originally posted 2012-12-31 14:13:01. 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...
Read More »

What does Insurance Ensure?

May 3, 2013
What does Insurance Ensure?

We call this kind of fish feed (BOTH colors)... Pic shot from predator POV.  INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ...
Read More »



Plans


   Beat diabetes   Diabetes diet