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Bring On Another Thousand. I hear it all the time. This is after the initial purchase, mind you. “Boating is like standing in the shower, burning thousand dollar bills.” Expensive systems break down, requiring expensive repair or replacement. Expensive finishes (including bottom paint) need seasonal attention. Structural entropy requires expensive materials and know-how. Well… there are alternatives....
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Witnesses call police to burned out canal boat in England. An unrelated video with no info. Unrelated Hurricane Sandy houseboat. Peter and Marian Sycamore, who watched their £50,000 retirement dream wash down the River Nene before smashing into a lock A devastated couple had to flee for their lives after their 60ft houseboat was...
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The Rule of Tenths is a decimal approximation of fractions from the Rule of Twelfths... the two are equivalent.(Drawing not to scale)Getting around with shoal draft means getting up close and personal with the bottom. Since the tide is busy coming and ...
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On board, it's Us or Them! Ya know, when mildew took in a Chinese ship, they'd burn 'em.An unsympathetic Friend on hearing us whine.The greatest challenge we face, living aboard, is not the Sea, the Weather, or even financing the Life.Our greatest chal...
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Student says: This short documentary features a young California couple’s decision to move aboard a sailboat. It ends with a glimpse of their plans to sail from the San Francisco Bay area to Virginia where they both grew up. There are interior and exterior shots of the couple on their boat at a San...
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Originally posted 2012-11-29 09:54:18. 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....
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From Disaster Movie by LionsGateFor years I've been huffling about TEOTWAWKI, The End Of The World As We Know It.My first serious introduction to the concept, back in the '80s, was through the book Limits to Growth by Meadows, et al. Recently, an excel...
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It’s a vintage article, but a great one. River Rat Andrea Buggey knows what it’s like to be a pirate. by BIANCA PHILLIPS It sounds like a punk-rock version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – a group of twentysomething hippies build homemade boats using parts from the trash and set out from Minneapolis for a...
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As found on YouTube. A rather shaky video with good shantyboat scenes: Its early morning on the tennessee river lots of fog and an eight point buck tries crossing the river as I’am traveling down trying to navigate my way down the river in this early morning thick fog Originally posted 2012-11-25 09:27:07. Bryan...
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This winter, the wind blew a well maintained, centegenarian cannery building off its piling in neighboring Sitkoh Bay!There's something about Alaskans; If they survive, they think they've had a good time!A Visiting FriendIf you can't dodge wrenche...
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