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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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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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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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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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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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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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Excerpted from a Triloboats post: “Anke and I have a set of priorities for live-aboard sailing that runs in clusters approximately as follows: Ease and economy of construction – If we can’t get it built, it’s a pipe dream. Ease and economy of maintenance – A) We’re lazy. B) We’d rather be sailing). Ease and economy...
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As I float through the sloughs north of Seattle I often think how nice it would be to have a little retreat in the top of one of the trees. No matter the weather or the flood stage, a secret hideaway… a vantage point nestled in the trees. Deek says…. A brand new micro-green...
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It’s about as far from affordable boat living as you can get, but there are some ideas here. Originally posted 2011-11-23 08:11:09. 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 community discussion. Leave your...
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From the Forum: The following info and pictures were provided by Frank and Judy Little. “These pictures were taken in 1957. Someone had lost a boat motor in the lake and my brother Gerald Pullig used a diving helmet he had made in high school shop to retrieve it. The air was...
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