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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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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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Shantyboatliving.com welcomes guest columnist Wes Modes: It started with Camp Tipsy. We started talking about what we could build, what kind of floating contraption would excite us. We were unequivocally unanimous in wanting something like a tiny cabin that floats. Something that we could escape to. Or maybe it started earlier. Maybe it...
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My Trailer-on-a-Toon was created out of sheer whimsy one evening while my wife and I discussed vacations we’d enjoyed over the years. We identified two memorable trips. One was renting a houseboat and floating through the canals of southern France. The other favorite was camping with our 16-foot Chalet XL hard-sided folding camping trailer...
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We’ve added a new feature. Ask Triloboats.com. For the next few weeks to months Dave Zeiger of Triloboats.com will answer one of your shantyboat living questions each week or so. Dave will draw upon his years of experience in boating… in living aboard.. How do you handle discharge of sewage? What are your food storage secrets?...
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hi brian I am in Australia a boaty myself , i will take a few pictures of house boat in the Noosa river where i lives , and post them for you web site … loving living an a boat myself , Catherine catherine secula
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My Shanty boat dreams began years ago. As a child I fell in love with Popular Science and Popular Mechanics Magazines and I remember the designs of the home made boats they often carried. I would spend hours dreaming about building one and living on it, traveling the waterways, living the easy life. Being...
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You can post YOUR shantyboat thoughts. Drams. Reviews. Ideas. Use the forum for questions. You can paste in pictures.. like this… Share your pictures, drawings, and ideas. Make your posts Here. Bryan Lowe Bryan LoweThe author of this post is also the editor of ShantyboatLiving.com. He has built several boats including the Escargot...
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