These shirts are printed on good quality cotton using an advanced full-color digital process, which isn't cheap. But they will look good for a long time, even after many washes. Only 300 of these will ever be made.
Many thanks to Mark, who turned my clumsy sketch into a real work of art. The project started out as a crew shirt for our boat, and then took on a life of its own.
Yes, that's the boat on which we live, and yes, that's me and my wife hanging off the mizzen mast, and yes, that's a shark's fin in the water behind us. See if you can find the cat.
Our boat is rather unique: it is a sharpie designed and built by Chris Morejohn: a flat-bottom, shoal-draft ocean-going cutter and/or yawl. It's been to Maine and the Virgin Islands, and many points in between.
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For one horrible moment while my page slowly loaded I thought you were going to promote seasteading of the other sort. Then I read your comments. What a relief! Not that I really thought you capable of it, without an aneurism or something.
I like the image a lot. I bet the cat's wondering what the crazy people are doing dangling from the mizzen mast.
A few years ago I checked out the principal seasteading website fairly thoroughly. I've always had a weakness for visionary utopian schemes. But I didn't like it: too much libertarianism. On one page deep in the site, an enthusiast suggested that it would be a good humanitarian gesture to "rescue" people from impoverished nations and make them work off their good fortune with a period of indentured servitude. It really creeped me out.
I would order one to wear while I am reading my copy of Sailing the Farm by Ken Neumeyer,great seasteading book.
I can see the cat, looking over the side, thinking "Why didn't I jump off at the dock?" I still can't wrap my head around the idea of a cat that LIKES being on the water.
P.S. I finished reading your book this week. I actually tried to slow down when I was going through it so I could savour the points you made, instead of skimming quickly just to add another notch on my bookshelf. You make some astute observations about American culture. Things like how owning a car defines one's self-concept of being an American, whereas it's just a possession in other parts of the world. That gave me insight to the place where I spent the first 47 years of my life.
I'm trying to get my wife to read "Reinventing Collapse". She enjoyed your lecture on Orcas Island, but she thinks the book will just make her cry. She cries a lot when she thinks about where the world is inevitably heading.
I'm not writing this to suck up to Kollapsnik, but any of his readers/commenters who haven't bought the book really ought to. It goes way beyond Orlov's original "Collapse Gap" essay. It's a doomer with humour. I've got it on the black crepe-draped section of my bookshelf, between "The Long Emergency" by Kunstler and "Twilight in the Desert" by Matt Simmons. As a civilization, we're fcuked. But that still doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves while the lights still come on and clean water flows from the faucet, eh?
I asked my wife if she wanted one of your shirts.She as if you will be having a hanukkah discounts. :)
I have a technical seasteading question for you Dmity. You've mentioned in a past post that you insulated your boat against the weather. Could you tell us what sort of insulation you used? Is there some type of insulation suitable for marine use, and if so what is its composition and standard thickness? Did you have to install interior wall and floor surfaces to cover it, and how much does it subtract from available interior space? Whatever the specs, I suppose it must be a subtantial job to install.
Kevin -
I used the stuff I could get at Home Depot: Dupont pink foam and radiant barrier, surfaced with thin plywood, which I then varnished with polyurethane. The insulation went between ribs and stringers, so the amount of space didn't go down appreciably. It cost around $1k for the boat, which is a 32-footer. The labor was substantial. I would rough-cut the radiant barrier, pack it the opening, scribe it, cut it out, and then use that piece as a template to cut the foam and the plywood. The foam is press-fit; the plywood is held in with #8 Phillips stainless screws.
Thanks Dmitry! I'll be checking out my nearest Home Despot in the hopes that I'll get a chance to use this information.
"The good ship was a racing yawl, a square rigged schooner sloop."
Ah, Dmitry, cutter and yawl are two distinct rigs. A cutter has one mast, located about 40% of the length from the bow; frequently, but not always, has a bowsprit; and has a forestaysail and one or more jibs. A yawl is two masted, with the smaller mast aft and carrying less than 25% of the over all sail area; number and location of jibs and staysails not specified.
Perhaps you have a yawl with a staysail and one or more jibs?
Glenn,
Marrowstone Island
Glenn -
You'd think you'd know something about boats, huh? Well, it's all good, provided you buy the t-shirt.
It's a cutter because it has a two-headsail arrangement known as a "cutter rig". The designer told me it's a yawl because the mizzen is further aft then it would be for a ketch. I don't use the mizzen much, though.
ok I take it there is no CHanukah discount... i might just pass on the shirt. I know I am a cheap ass, just ask my kids. for vacation this year we went to the hotel laundry mat. everybody got a hand full of quarters and a bag of dirty laundry. I told them that if they diddent want to smell like the $2.99 breakfast at dennys to use the quarters wisely, and if they wanted to turn out like their old man, to meet me at the vending machine in 10 minutes. At least my kids smell better than me....
Hi Dmitry and Natasha, silly season greetings from DownUnder (Australia).
Postage across the pacific for a t-shirt is $28, and would no doubt produce some CO2 (although Mr Jevons would no doubt have something to say about such a concern, and in the scheme of things according to James Hansen...), so I will have to meditate on my motivations.
anyway, thanks big heaps.
I know an old guy who insulated with bubble-wrap-foil insulation & carpet tape from Home Depot (no special skills needed). He said it cost about $100, and that it went from freezing to toasty.
For whom it may interest, I finally stumbled upon a page about the nitty-gritty of snagging a free boat:
http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Free-Yacht-Saga/
If the author is to be believed, enquiring at a few local marinas should turn up something. I mean to give it a try if I can work up the nerve, and scrape together some slip money.
@ izzit - I put some bubble wrap in my bedroom window last winter, and it didn't even have foil. It looked like crap, but worked suprisingly well.
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