Escargot

Tales of Escargot and all other Shantyboat dreams of Bryan Lowe, pubisher of Shantyboatliving.com.

A video and Spot Satellite Track of Escargot

September 5, 2011

Sammamish Slough Deux Spot satellite, EveryTrail, and pictures and videos from my Iphone. 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...
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Something From Nothing

September 4, 2011

In this economy it doesn’t make sense to build a boat. A quick scan of Craig’sList turns up an amazing variety of boats, many for little more than a song, at least when compared to prices about four years ago or so. So why do I want to build more boats? I like making...
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Escargot: Back in the Saddle

September 4, 2011

It’s been a long time. A few months ago, in an effort to build my writing skills and enthusiasm, I enrolled in an online writing class. It had the opposite effect. The class was for aspiring travel writers, taught by somewhat frustrated artists of the pen whose goal it was to be damn sure...
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Musings

April 10, 2010

“Thoreau understood something that many of us modern day nomads would do well to recognize: travel is a matter of perspective, not location. With curiosity, an open mind and a broad horizon of free time, it’s possible to travel in your own backyard.” - Brave New Traveller I decided to bake bread this morning. It’s...
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On Solitude and Boat Building

September 5, 2009

My friend Dan of the Virtual Joli project sent me a note the other day with a simple question… why do we want to build boats? He already has two canoes and a sailboat. I already have… oh man, I don’t even want to go there. One of my high school teachers, Bob Freund,...
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Father on the Beach

July 5, 2009

Written on my alphasmart down at the beach… My first true day of vacation, a slow start, as is fitting for vacation, though it was interrupted by a call from work. Nothing too important, though. The day is partially cloudy, with the forecast calling for a 30 percent chance of rain today, 20% tomorrow,...
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