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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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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 Originally posted 2011-10-29 21:43:31. catherine seculaMore Posts
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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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Back in 1880, ‘A Daring Voyage across the Atlantic’, written by William Albert Andrews was published in London by Griffith and Farran. It chronicled the remarkable voyage of the two Andrews brothers who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in a 19’ lapstrake dory. With the purpose of outdoing Thomas Crapo, who did it in...
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Written by Guest Author Kathy Warnes of http://maritimemoments.wordpress.com/ and http://discoverfunhistory.webs.com/ The Poet and the Prisoners: Philip Freneau and the Revolutionary War Death Ships by Kathy Warnes “So much I suffer’d from the race I hate, So near they shov’d me to the brink of fate; When seven long weeks in these damn’d hulks I lay,...
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Alone across the Atlantic in a 14 foot sailboat: The trailer for a movie about his solo voyage. ALL Pico Boating Stories Originally posted 2012-04-05 23:09:31. 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...
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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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By the standards of the Selway Fisher Micro designs this boat is huge, but these videos give you a glimpse of the path ahead. Part 1 of a 16minute film documenting my successful voyage across the Atlantic in a 26ft boat in March of 2008, from the Canary Islands to Barbados. More info at http://www.bigoceans.com...
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Mindy says: LITTLE CRUISER is our fifteen foot sharpie designed and built by our friend Matt Layden as a coastal microcruiser. Constructed in 1988, LITTLE CRUISER was one of his favorite boats and he sailed her engineless as far North as the Bay of Fundy in Canada and as far South as the Exumas...
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