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Mac McJunkin on May 13, 2012 at 3:17 pm I came up on an analogy the other day, in the book “The First 20 Minutes” you may enjoy. The Sea-Squirt is not one of nature’s more charismatic creatures, but it’s life story is instructive to modern humans. Tubular,opaque and squelchy, it resembles a worm-fish...
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“No you can’t always get what you want.” – Rolling Stones The daily requirements of life can be such a time suck, at least from the perspective of someone wanting to build a boat. I spent a couple of hours this morning working on my boat project, the Selway Fisher Micro 10, and got...
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With every related purchase I make, I’ll add it to the running total. I figure, without sails, trailer, or fancy internal doo-dads, I’ll be spending about $2600. Before the build I estimated a cost of about $4700, if I went expensive on the plywood. I was rounding up. $2600 or so. Hmm. ...
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Honestly, I’m not much of one to do work around the house. I find it unsatisfying and boring. For me there’s only modest joy in repairing a leaking sink, other than to think I saved a few hundred dollars by doing it myself. But I do it because it is the right thing...
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It’s at a time like this, just as my build gets underway, that the best vacation would happen in my driveway. Early in the build every step seems so big, each newly cut piece of wood seems to leap from the pages of plans, none more than the creation of the frames of a...
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You know how many marinas there are in the Sacramento Delta? A lot, let me tell you. And I’ve called nearly every one in search of our elusive, inexpensive junked, but still floating, 20 foot-or-so pontoon boat. A few leads which I’m following up on. Kai and I also hung a flier up in...
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Selway Fisher Micro 10. Sunday, April 29, 2012 I spent Saturday building the center girder of my Micro 10 project. It started with a trip to the local lumber yard to pick up four sheets of 1/2 inch plywood and a few other odds and ends. Then it took hours to figure...
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Sven Yrvind – Project Ten – April 19, 2012 Famous Swedish sailor Sven Yrvind talks about project and the boat Yrvind Ten that he will use to circumnavigate the world non-stop. The boat is smaller than 10 feet. Read more on Sven Yrvind on www.yrvind.com Information about Sven Yrvind as a public speaker http://www.sverigestalare.se/talare/sven-yrvind/...
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Kai and I took a mad motorcycle trip up the Sacramento Delta to check out a couple of “pontoon boats” that we hoped might make a good foundation for our shantyboat. They turned out to not only not be pontoon boats, but much longer than we were told. And, uh, they were pretty much...
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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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