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Comment on Floating Cottages (Jul, 1956) by P Talley Floating Cabins

P Talley Floating Cabins — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:27:51 +0000

Bryan, Thank you for sharing those “Antique Floating Cottages” with us!!!!!!!! I am totally amazed at the prices!!!!!! It sure cost more than that to build them now but I love designing and building them!

Comment on Pico Boating: Slow Progress by Roselt Croeser

Roselt Croeser — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:03:04 +0000

I love it. If we live life, use our brains, fall in love, sail in very small boats we always risk something going wrong and maybe learning something from it. If you are happy to spend your days as a vegetable in front of a television then go ahead. Otherwise we have to do something. There is no more complete way to take responsibility for yourself than to build your own small boat and sail it on the ocean.

Comment on Contact Us: Email by Bryan Lowe

Bryan Lowe — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:20:22 +0000

Hi. This site sells nothing. You’ll need to follow the link to the original post.

Comment on Contact Us: Email by John Clark

John Clark — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:47:15 +0000

Hi again, could you give me a price on the Adventure Craft AC2800.
Send e-mail to “Clarkjd6@Juniata.edu”.

Comment on Pico Boating: Slow Progress by Bryan Lowe

Bryan Lowe — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:38:17 +0000

A great story. Thanks for that! I did make some progress today. I’ll post pictures in a bit.

Comment on Commercially Built: Adventure Craft by Bryan Lowe

Bryan Lowe — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:32:58 +0000

Hi… I just posted their material here as a part of Shantyboatliving.com. You can follow the link to their site. Tell them Shantyboatliving.com sent you!

Comment on Pico Boating: Slow Progress by Mac McJunkin

Mac McJunkin — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:17:22 +0000

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 from Mars.But the Sea Squirt is in reality more closely related to humans than other fish.It”s a member of the chordate family, just as we were a long time ago, in another evolutionary form. When scientist sequenced the entire genome of the Sea-Squirt a few years ago, they found long sections of DNA identical to our own.
At birth, infant Sea-Squirt larvae have a brain, not much of one; it consist of a few hundred brain cells and some nerve endings. But it does allow the squirt to think in a rudimentary fashion.Young squirts need to find a home. They can’t just float aimlessly for the rest of their lives. So directed by these few neurons they begin swimming.The movement seems to strengthen the brain and the nervous system connections.The squirt may even add a few dozen brain cells while wandering. But then it finds a underwater rock, a ship hull, or perhaps a lazing walrus and attaches itself. Adult squirts are sissile; they pass they rest of their lives clamped to a single surface, waving with the tides but otherwise never moving from that spot.
So their brains die. The neuron and nervous connections shrivel and are absorbed into the squirt’s soggy tissues. There is a strong connection between activity and brain function in animals,”according to Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, PHD, a professor of physiological science at the University of California, Los Angeles. When squirts stop moving it has no further use for a brain.”
Also in the movie “Running the Sahara” the runners came across a tribe of nomads, that were constantly moving with their possessions. They considered a house a coffin.
Men don’t set still or your dead meat.

Comment on Commercially Built: Adventure Craft by John Clark

John Clark — Sun, 13 May 2012 18:55:43 +0000

Could you give me a quote of a standard boat.
Jack Clark

Comment on Contact Us: Email by James

James — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:46:15 +0000

Hello Bryan, I’m happy to see someone is building a Micro 10. This is a design I’ve been interested in for some time. Here is some documentation of a Micro 8, you may have seen it already. http://www.nauticaltrek.com/12357-la-continuation-d-une-obsession So, do you think this design can “dig in” and sail to wind? I once contacted Paul Fisher and asked him if the design could be extended to say, 16 feet. He replied it would be no problem. Good luck with the build, cheering you on here.

Comment on What Can You DO With That Thing? by Bryan Lowe

Bryan Lowe — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:29:21 +0000

Junk rig is my favorite. The design is setup to have the mast in back.. but I may actually install a mast socket up front, too, while it is still “easy”.