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Remarkable footage found on the wrecked boat Little Murka, washed up on the West Coast of Ireland. Taken in the North Atlantic during the worst hurricane on record in 2005. Dom Mee was the solo explorer. From Wikipedia: Dom Mee is a British adventurer who attempted in August/September 2005 to cross the North Atlantic Ocean in...
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Today we look at Selway Fisher’s Micro boats, specifically their first incarnation.. the Micro 8. I started building the Micro 8, but life got in the way. This is a “liveaboard” boat that could tie up for the night at the dinghy dock! Micro 8: This design has been drawn up for the...
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by John Welsford Length on deck 13ft 1in 4.00 metres Beam 6 ft 2in 1.90 M Draft 2 ft 7in 0.800m Sail area 139 sq ft 14.9 Sq m Dry weight estimated 1430 lbs 650 kg Ballast 550 lbs 250 kg Max sailing weight 2420 lbs 1100 kg A tough little cruiser for one...
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There’s a story over on DuckworksMagazine.com about a fellow who is building a little tugboat, Gil. To me he seems to be doing a pretty nice job of it. But.. To make this story simple, once he built the frames of his boat, he used the plan dimensions and marked and cut the hull...
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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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“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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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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