Another Interesting Home Built Steel Boat

[Sail4beer]

Is his name Jonah, by chance?

Just asking

 

[nebe]

good phrase there ed

"self medicating with boats" - watch out for the phrase being plundered in a forthcoming KTL movie

I got a great chuckle from your phrase - "look at those power boats at the fuel dock... like drunks at the bar" 

 

[sculpin]

Nice whale!  What's it rate?

 

[dylan winter]

I got a great chuckle from your phrase - "look at those power boats at the fuel dock... like drunks at the bar" 

It is odd making jokes in videos -  you never get to hear if they work

- like trees falling in a forest

I made a joke about Spanish martello towers being taken from behind by the British Navy

One kind chap sent me an email saying that it had cost him a keyboard due to a serious coffee spillage.

that made me happy - as did yours

D

 

[Mr. Ed]

This bloke seems sane compared to the British version

Tom Maclean

He may be a bit eccentric, but he's rowed the Atlantic single handed two or three times (west to east) and sailed it a few times in insanely small boats. 

 

[Ed Lada]

Hmmm, homemade, steel, twin keels, a chine of sorts, as fair and smooth as a baby's bottom, what does that remind me of...

 

[Foiling Optimist]

In the case above, there's nothing to suggest the whale isn't inherently seaworthy. A bit of windage to be sure, but the hull looks rational. Now that's a proper eccentric.

 

[SloopJonB]

In the U.K. when you are a monster raving loonie but harmless to others then you are referred to as eccentric.

 

[Fah Kiew Tu]

In the case above, there's nothing to suggest the whale isn't inherently seaworthy. A bit of windage to be sure, but the hull looks rational. Now that's a proper eccentric.

It'd be even more awesome if it could submerge (more than once). A whale shaped submarine - maybe it could be his next project.

FKT

 

[Windward]

Whatever happened to that guy in Nevada who built himself a home made rocket?

Now there was a manifestly unsafe mission if there ever was one.  I still say have at it buddy!

*  Ok...  here it is

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-flat-earth-rocket-20171124-story.html

The earth IS flat by the way... 

 

[Foiling Optimist]

It'd be even more awesome if it could submerge (more than once). A whale shaped submarine - maybe it could be his next project.

FKT

I am afraid that the submarines that Canada bought used off the Royal Navy some years ago were in approximately the same condition as this whale ship. Google "Canada Submarine Problems" if you must. If there was ever a used vessel transaction that in retrospect should have made it to "Mocking ads on Craigslist"......

 

[Mr. Ed]

None of these can hold a candle to the Ark of Urk, which is all too good to be true.

 

[IStream]

None of these can hold a candle to the Ark of Urk, which is all too good to be true.

Disqualified on a technicality: it's built on a barge so its basic seaworthiness is somewhat assured. This shows a fundamental lack of nuttiness on the part of the creator. This thread is strictly full-nutjob.

How'd you like to be the owner of that Nauticat in the foreground. And I thought my looming powerboat neighbor was a PITA...

 

[Ed Lada]

I think if you are going to go through the trouble of building an Ark, it's a cop-out to build it on a barge!

 

[monsoon]

Reminds me of the Raw Faith saga.  That didn't end well either. 

 

[monsoon]

This bloke seems sane compared to the British version

Tom Maclean

I've always liked the Brit term 'barking mad'.

 

[chester]

let's take a moment to reflect on all these wierdos in comparison to Zeyang and sailing the farm.  got a plan, decide to do it in aluminum lapstrake (right?) attracted a gaggle of like minded hippy people, built the goddamn thing and went sailing with his merry band!  that's the way its fucking done...jesus christ.

 

[IStream]

let's take a moment to reflect on all these wierdos in comparison to Zeyang and sailing the farm.  got a plan, decide to do it in aluminum lapstrake (right?) attracted a gaggle of like minded hippy people, mostly young women, built the goddamn thing and went sailing with his merry band!  that's the way its fucking done...jesus christ.

Even better.

 

[chester]

Even better.

i was trying "clean up my act"  

 

[IStream]

There's nothing wrong with hanging out with a gaggle of smart, strong, independent young women as long as you're a gentleman about it!