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Houseboat with a Past

May 17, 2013
Houseboat with a Past

Heather Wilcoxon grew up visiting the Hollywood sets of her actor parents (her father played Marc Antony opposite Claudette Clobert in Cecil B. DeMille’s Cleopatra and her mother played Brenda Starr in the original tv series), but at age 20 she left all that behind to move aboard a boat and for the past...
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Floating Your Boat – Musings on Wherewithal (Income)

May 16, 2013
Floating Your Boat – Musings on Wherewithal (Income)

  Well it comes in pretty handy on this planet, Pal! Tony Rice, speaking of Money   Money. Moola. Filthy lucre. I hate it. I want some!   The chain linking our culture to subsistent lifestyles has been broken. We’re left reinventing the wheel in diminished environments. We are distracted from this pursuit by...
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Electricity in a NutShell

May 15, 2013
Electricity in a NutShell

Nikola Tesla, Boat Electrician ExtraordinaireThere are few areas, in boating, that attract more gew-gaws, gizmos and gimcrackery than the electrical system.Time was, nobody had one. Oil lamps for cabin, anchor and running lights. Lead lines for soundin...
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Pico Boating: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

May 13, 2013
Pico Boating: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

  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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Crowd-Funding for Shantyboats

May 12, 2013
Crowd-Funding for Shantyboats

Some time back I wrote of a boat project called Recurring Dream.   Now I see they are using crowd-funding, along the lines of Kickstarter, to get out. The site says:  ”Help us launch our dream! Started in 2009, the Recurring Dream is a hand-built cruising houseboat, created as an independent dwelling for my...
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Hitler “Discusses” Liveaboards

May 11, 2013
Hitler “Discusses” Liveaboards

If you are offended by Adolf Hitler being used in a bit of political satire or offended by strong language, please do not watch this video. There is a battle going on in Washington State… near Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound in particular… about liveaboards.   It’s a “conversation” that is happening across the...
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Sketchy Napkin Plans

May 10, 2013
Sketchy Napkin Plans

As with all great projects, this one started with a napkin drawing: While  barrel floats have a long glorious history, we’ll probably do either pontoons or a full plywood-fiberglass hull. We won’t need any kind of keel with pontoons, but with a full hull, the keel is still an open question.  Though apparently some...
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Sugar Shack Houseboat

May 10, 2013
Sugar Shack Houseboat

From The Seattle Times:   Meanwhile, down at the docks, sits Mackenzie’s other little charmer, in lime and cherry, the 200-square-foot Sugar Shack: a 1946 Army garbage hauler when she found it. But with brown leather trim. A full-size bathtub under the banquette. She paid $55,000 for the hauler, and fixed it for $8,000. Finished...
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River Maneuvers

May 9, 2013
River Maneuvers

Alluvial (River) Flats... Light blue is dry-out zone, deep blue is deep water.  It had been a beautiful, but stormy autumn. We'd been heading down Lynn Canal / Chatham Straits, a 200 mile long wind cannon, after visiting with my Brother's family n...
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Boat Roofed Shed

May 8, 2013
Boat Roofed Shed

From Kent Griswold’s excellent Tiny House Blog… a boat becomes a shed, but could become a shantyboat! The shed roof is made from a clinker built boat that is 14ft long and 7ft wide at its widest point. The boat is an inshore fishing boat made between 1900 – 1910. It was placed on...
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