Handmade Houseboats: Independent Living Afloat
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1992
International Marine Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-0-07-158022-9 (ISBN)
International Marine Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-0-07-158022-9 (ISBN)
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Shows those who would live afloat how to design and build their own place on the water. This book offers detailed plans and building instructions for sample houseboats; help with designing a personalized houseboat from scratch; and, resource-stingy contrivances for easing life aboard, including a solar oven and a windmill-powered washing machine.
Water-loving people of modest means have lived aboard houseboats for centuries, and why not? Unlike expensive, cramped, and hard-to-build liveaboard cruising boats, spacious, homey houseboats are easily and economically constructed from commmon lumberyard materials. And unlike those high-priced waterfront cottages, there's no lawn to mow and often no property taxes. And if you don't like the new neighbors, just up anchor and be off.This book tells those who would live afloat how to design and build their own place on the water. There are detailed plans and building instructions for sample houseboats; help with designing a personalized houseboat from scratch; resource-stingy contrivances for easing life aboard, including a solar oven, a windmill-powered washing machine, and innovative power-, water-, and waste-management systems; and more.
Water-loving people of modest means have lived aboard houseboats for centuries, and why not? Unlike expensive, cramped, and hard-to-build liveaboard cruising boats, spacious, homey houseboats are easily and economically constructed from commmon lumberyard materials. And unlike those high-priced waterfront cottages, there's no lawn to mow and often no property taxes. And if you don't like the new neighbors, just up anchor and be off.This book tells those who would live afloat how to design and build their own place on the water. There are detailed plans and building instructions for sample houseboats; help with designing a personalized houseboat from scratch; resource-stingy contrivances for easing life aboard, including a solar oven, a windmill-powered washing machine, and innovative power-, water-, and waste-management systems; and more.
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Are You Crazy?Chapter One WherefromChapter Two Staying AfloatChapter Three Room to BreatheChapter Four Galvanized and SteadfastChapter Five Quick and EasyChapter Six Up She GoesChapter Seven Filling In the SpacesChapter Eight Water Inside TooChapter Nine SparksChapter Ten Let There Be LightChapter Eleven Keeping It ComfyChapter Twelve Voyaging the Alimentary CanalChapter Thirteen WheretoAppendix Plans to Build FromSuggested ReadingIllustration CreditsIndex
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.7.1992 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 160 Illustrations, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | Rockport, ME |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 188 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 499 g |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-07-158022-0 / 0071580220 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-07-158022-9 / 9780071580229 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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