Sailing

[goo...@geekeasy.com]

I haven't posted in a while, but I'm still thinking about and working
on plans for floatingman.

Big commerical steel ships are _cheap_. But the fuel to move them is
expensive. For a while, I've been wondering how feasible it is to
convert a big ship into a sailboat.

Modern sail technology is making it look more likely.

Check out this article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13325827/site/newsweek/

Ship of the week:

http://exec-yachtsales.com/10130.htm

Only $99,000. If the hull is solid, it would be a fantastic conversion
project!

-Adam :-)

[Stachula, Joe]

So if a major dilemma with going the “Big Steel” route is the cost of fuel we just need to solve that problem, not wuss out and go sailing.  Besides, if we were to sail a huge old iron ship we’d probably get it moving, but what if we couldn’t be the first floating civilization that a human pyramid of Playboy Bunnies could water-ski behind?  I’m not sure I could live with that loss…

      So, how about this…  Check out this article on global gasoline prices, how about that price in Venezuela huh?  So we just retrofit our vessel into a sort of mini-tanker and become worldwide gasoline barterers while enjoying the freedom of a Floating man existence!!!  Check out these numbers…  Retrofit for 80,000 additional gallon capacity and then simply run round-trips from Caracas to Amsterdam.  That would work out to $500k per round trip.  So we blow $400k and 5 months in Amsterdam on well, whatever, and then blow $100k and 5 months in Caracas on more well, whatever (2 months to travel back and forth) and we have our GNP and entire economy figured out!  Now we just need to convert that 550HP diesel chugger in the old iron boat to a supercharged gasoline motor…

 

-Joe

 

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[David Hollman]

If you don't have to get anywhere very fast, how about solar/electric?

[kimbriel dean]

looks very interesting!!  what's your time frame?  i'm assuming you're still traveling around out there somewhere...

 

i'd still be interested in doing whatever i can to help, but i ended up in the very last place i expected to be right now--- i'm about to close on a house in austin, texas.  it'll be my home base, but i'm renting 2 rooms out and i could always rent the third and hire a property manager... definitely planned the escape route before i could commit to static living. 

 

i'm not really sure what i can do from austin, but let me know if i can be of help.

 

hope you're doing well!!

kimbriel

[kimbriel dean]

oh hello everyone!  didn't pay attention to the fact i was sending that last message to the group and thought i was just writing to adam.  sorry bout that!

kimbriel dean <kimb...@yahoo.com> wrote:

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