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Bolger was a true shantyboater at heart… as a designer… and for quite some time, in his choice of home. Though he did design boats with traditional beauty, including the sailing ship Rose, most know him today as the designer of a series of square boats, boats with a beauty that was...
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It’s a basic sailing barge shantyboat, an idea with preliminary sketches. It’s been removed, but at one time the price for developing a full set of plans was in the $5000 range. Perhaps it can serve as inspiration. You’ll find this design along with many other ideas, here. (mid-page) Bumble - This 28′ yawl is...
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What is a shantyboat? It’s the most basic of questions, yet it’s not an easy one to answer. It really could be consider a slang word, as it is rarely found in dictionaries, and it is slang from another era. But we can get some idea from the root word, shanty. ...
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Shantyboat Living, the Book, is a work in process, but a work guaranteed to grow. When you subscribe for $10 you are given a years access to the book and all premium content created during that year. Some background What is a shantyboat? It’s the most basic of questions, yet it’s not...
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Shantyboat Retirement Home – One man’s adventures living on and traveling along the waterways of the Eastern U.S. in a shantyboat/small sailboat. Trying to survive in style on a minimum Social Insecurity retirement check in 21st century America. Living off-the grid and on-the-hook as much as possible.
http://shantyboat-retirement-home.blogspot.com/
My friend Dan of the Virtual Joli project sent me a note the other day with a simple question… why do we want to build boats? He already has two canoes and a sailboat. I already have… oh man, I don’t even want to go there. One of my high school teachers, Bob Freund,...
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