$39,000 · Pleasure Craft Live-Aboard for Sale (S. Gulf Islands)
Safely anchored amongst the Southern Gulf Islands, this licensed pleasure craft liveaboard has to be moved onto private property (land or sea).
- Easy to access location (both from land or sea).
- Unique craftsmanship: rustic on the outside, beautiful cedar interior.
- Has been a well secured, stable, off-the-grid, 4 seasons live aboard for the last 10+ years.
- Hand built, vintage west coast cabin (original houseboat / float home structure probably from the late 70s, early 80s) with current upgrades.
- Pleasure craft license.
- Moving to land costs: from $30,000, depending on location (rough estimate by professional movers).
- If interested, please get in touch for details on moving the liveaboard.
- Offers will be considered. Serious inquiries only.
- Occupied.
https://www.usedvictoria.com/power-boats/39068565
From Godfrey Stephens (Check Godfrey’s latest sculpture.)
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At Fort Baker, the old Army base on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Surfers’ dream…
Today Jay posted this 5-minute video on Instagram:
www.instagram.com/p/CO1Kf7dp11o
To know what you are going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
–Pablo Picasso
As I go though my digital photos (200,000+) — usually looking for something to do with the Rolling Homes book I’m working on — I run across photos and grab them to post here. As I said in an earlier post, this was on a trip to Vancouver Island in 2017.
On Thursday Louie and I, plus our friends Titsch and Pepe, drove up to the Noyo harbor just south of Ft. Bragg to have lunch at Silver’s At The Wharf, which is as good a seafood restaurant as there is anywhere. I not only recommend going there if you are ever in the vicinity of Fort Bragg, but also to check out the little harbor community of restaurants, fishing stores, trailer park, and other real life, non-tourist businesses at the harbor.
It’s a serious fishing port, with fairly hazardous channel lined by boulders out into the ocean. Fishermen along the coast have my utmost respect, especially if they have to get out into the ocean through the waves; not for the fainthearted, for sure. Same thing with farmers: they have to deal with the real world; so different from most other occupations.
This boat caught my eye.
Statistics:
Beam: 26.0 ft
Tonnage: 143 GT / 97 NT
Year of Build: 1982
Builder: Kelley Boat Works, Fort Bragg, CA
This gracefully curved little steel-frame boathouse was built by Dean Ellis on the beach of an island in the Strait of Georgia, BC. Posts are 4″–5″ steel, 8 feet on center. The curved steel purlins are 2½″ steel tubes, The curves formed on a break in a sheet metal shop. The 1″ by 6″ wood sheathing is welded to the steel purlins with nails.
The wood sheathing is connected to the steel purlins by driving nails through the roof sheathing alongside the steel purlins, then welding to the purlins with wire-fed welder.
Details in Builders of the Pacific Coast, page 159.
Here is a 2020 update on Swedish world sailor Sven Yrvind, whose lifetime of solo sailing was documented in Tiny Homes on the Move (pp. 148-151). Here are a few glimpses of what we referred to as “Sven’s Next Boat” on p. 151, and a 15-minute interview.
“At sea, I can find my youth.”
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From Canyon Haverfield
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A year or so ago, a large pine tree fell into one of the main channels of our lagoon, blocking boat access. The county finally decided to remove it. I thought they’d get a crane, but the tree company hit upon this ingenious low-tech solution: a two-canoe catamaran, decked with 2×4s and plywood, which they loaded up with chunks of the tree, then had their boat pulled with a rope to an access point, where they loaded the wood onto a truck.
Reminds me of the many ingenious low-tech workarounds I’ve seen in Mexico, like a crowbar made out of rebar, or fishermen whose gear amounts to a bottle wrapped with fishing line; they go to the beach with this in their pocket, then spool the line off the bottle twirl it around their head and cast into the surf.
Builder’s website: daigno.ca/en/home.html
From Lew Lewandowski
