Our next book will be on nomadic living in the 21st century. Homes on wheels and homes in the water. Campers, RVs, trailers, house trucks, house buses, and bike rigs, as well as sailboats and houseboats. We won’t start working on it until the summer, but if you have any material for us, please let us know. We’ll contact you when we get, um, rolling.
*By this we mean road rigs, not small cabins on trailer platforms that are meant to be moved infrequently.
Above photo: “Gypsy Family: Georgia, Jessy, Jeanette and Ray Poulson live life on the road, selling handcrafted goods.” (in New Zealand.) https://shltr.net/A8Tkn4
https://www.faircompanies.com/videos/view/liveaboard-life-minimalism-in-a-tiny-home-on-water/
“When Teresa Carey lost most of her possessions in a house fire years ago, she felt liberated. “I didn’t miss a thing. It was almost like a burden lifted off my shoulders. ”
This was the first step toward a more minimalist lifestyle. The second motivating catalyst was her decision to life aboard her sailboat. Before making the move she began to downsize her stuff keeping only what would fit in her car. When she finally made her move to her 27 foot sloop she had given away or sold the majority of her belongings.
Today, Teresa lives on her sailboat Daphne with no flush toilet or shower, an icebox for a refrigerator, no television and few electronics. She doesn’t see it as a sacrifice, but as an opportunity to live a bigger life unfettered by her possessions.
In this video, Teresa gives us a tour of her boat and shows us a few days in the life of a liveaboard.”
This belongs to UC Davis. According to a fisherman we talked to, it’s an enormously expensive boat.
Wednesday morning, these are beautiful little boats. I’m not sure if it’s called a schooner, but it’s a classic fishing boat for this part of the Pacific Coast.
(My friend Godfrey gives me shit if I don’t get all of the mast(s) in any boat pic.)
Here’s a great State of California report on Fisheries dated 1954, with vintage pics: https://is.gd/calfish
And you water people, here’s a fascinating photo-essay of a tanker getting bashed by a horrendous hurricane in the North Pacific in 1977, but staying afloat: https://is.gd/stoltsurf
I met my friend Louie in Bodega Bay yesterday. We went out in his homemade sailboat to pull up a crab pot. Only one crab. Then north along Hwy 1. The pic below is of the beach at Jenner, the mouth of the Russian River, where it was churning with life of seal and bird persuasion. Then over the next 10 or so miles of winding often-hair-pin cliffside highway to the Timber Cove Inn, where we had (great) hamburgers and dark draft beer and looked out at the ocean, where whales were spouting, on their way from Alaska south to Scammon’s lagoon and other warm water bays for calving. Sun setting just before we got into Pt. Arena. Really a nice day, blue water, a nice swell, surfers out (mostly getting stuffed by straight across 8-foot waves) at Salmon Creek. I feel so lucky, being able to take off for a few days like this, recharging psychic batteries…
“Rainbow in her first season (William Starling Burgess, 1934 – photography: Edwin J. Levick)”
30 archival photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/104097160874903509775/ClassicYachts#5328191589328327010
Sent us by Godfrey Stephens
by Kent Griswold, tinyhouseblog, November 29th, 2011
“We weren’t looking to buy a boat, we definitely weren’t looking to buy a tugboat, we were just looking. We have a home in Port Townsend, Washington but the commute into the city for work was too much to do everyday, so at the time we were renting a house in Ballard (a neighborhood of Seattle). It was a nice house in a great neighborhood, but we really weren’t keen on being renters. When we saw the tug on craigslist we were just curious, but once we looked at the boat we realized we could stop being renters and have a place of our own in Seattle. A place on the water with a million dollar view.…”
https://tinyhouseblog.com/floating-homes/tugboat-tiny-house/
George Greenough, the ultimate Waterman, who was the first photographer to get inside a curl with movie camera (on kneeboard), designed a series of super little fast surfer-friendly boats. Anyone know of one for sale?
Fellow adventurer Doug Armstrong relates his scary adventure last weekend.(My neighbor Mark runs a 40 foot salmon trawler out of San Francisco and told me yesterday he got really scared motoring back in past Point Bonita last week.)
Doug: Robin and I set out on my Santana 22 at 8:55 Saturday morning from Horseshoe Cove at Fort Baker to sail out into the ocean and up to Muir Beach. I’d sailed solo from Berkeley to Horseshoe cove the afternoon before and had an amazingly straight sail through Raccoon Straights and only a minimum of difficulty with the squirrelly eddies at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge near the approach to the cove. Saturday was the first time past the bridge for my boat, and I had some trepidation as we reached Point Bonita and turned north atop the large swells and up between the Headlands and the confused currents of the Potato Patch.
But all went without difficulty and we cruised beneath the fog to Muir Beach. As there seemed inadequate protection to anchor there for lunch, we turned back toward the bay and continued our sail.
We made up to 6.2 mph (my iPhone’s GPS only reads land speed) as we sailed happily back toward home. While we made our way back toward the bridge, I had some concern about the strength of the out going tide and the equally strong opposing wind.
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I’ve been sending out email newsletters called GIMME SHELTER for some years now, to a mailing list of around 600.The frequency is a lot less often now that I’m blogging. We post each one on Shelter’s website. Here is the latest: https://www.shelterpub.com/_gimme/_2011-09-28/gimme_shelter-2011-09-28.html
Our next book will be on nomadic living in the 21st century. Homes on wheels and homes in the water. Campers, RVs, trailers, house trucks, house buses, and bike rigs, as well as sailboats and houseboats. We won’t start working on it until the summer, but if you have any material for us, please let us know. We’ll contact you when we get, um, rolling.
