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So it looks like we’re building a boat. Not merely throwing a bunch of shit on the deck of a couple pontoons, or strapping a bunch of barrels together, but making a boat. You know, one of those things that floats in the water and has things like a hull and a deck, not...
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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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Not a pico boat, but a cautionary tale nonetheless. This is the story of one man’s obsession by a dream that probably stretched back to an exotic childhood and drove Nenad Belic to defy the wishes and advice of his family, friends, and colleagues. The quest began on May 11, 2001, from Stage Harbor,...
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One Couples Shantyboat Journey From the website Madison Monday: This week, a friend and I were talking about how to live a simple life amid all the stuff that seems to need to get done. Jobs, spouses, children, meetings, cleaning, laundry, cooking…How do you get rid of all the stuff? How do you reduce...
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From the Pico Shantyboat series. I bought plans for the Selway Fisher Micro 10. There’s just something about boats like these that ring my bell. Small is good. This small? Well.. Selway Fisher says: Using the Micro 8 as a starting point l have drawn up a boat with 25% additional length...
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This is not a story of shantyboats, per se. But it is a the first in a series of articles about seeing the world in the most compact way possible. This is the story of a journey in a ten foot boat. Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you...
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My “workshop” is a mess… especially now that I’ve cleared out space for the Pico boat project. I created a jig from some old deck boards I’d been saving for this purpose, and then mounted the rear transom and the backbone of the boat. Yes, I am embarrassed by the mess,...
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So much regular life getting in the way of boat building… but that’s the norm, it seems. Aging relatives… work pressure… a broken clothes dryer in the laundry. I got back to it for a while today and mounted FRAME A. And just to get the effect, I mounted the bow transom with a...
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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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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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