Building the houseboat

Look here (oil) and here (electric) and on some other places I guess...

Cheers,
Angel

 

wow, really cheap

 

They are from Den Haan in Rotterdam. Google ‘‘8412E light’’ and almost everything is a hit on these lamps. Mostly ± $ 250 in the US.

Cheers,
Angel


PS

‘8412O’ * = oil, ‘8412E’ = electric, here the specs.
* not 0 zero, but O from oil.

 

This is the US distributor. You'r right Angel $250.

http://www.oillampman.com/denhaan/anchor1.htm

 

Many years ago I made a "steaming" light. I used brass and a soldering gun. The lens was a cut down canning jar I stole from my mothers supply. It worked exceptionally well and is now, slightly modified the entry lamp to my house (120 VAC conversion of course). It's not as hard as you'd think and brass is about as easy to work with as you could ask for.

 

Good lamps Daniel.

This one is the last one from Peters & Bey Hamburg:


all copper and only 599,- €

But the is a very good product also. A bit cheaper in Germany at 180$

 

Oh, yes. The famous Mason brand. They always seem to smell of pickles ...

 

Amazing how some things stick around. About fifty years ago when I was ten or eleven years old, I cut a simple silhouette of a pig out of a pine board with a coping saw, painted it up, added a picture wire on the back and some brass-plated cup hooks, and gave it to my mother to hang her pot holders on. When she died a few years ago it was still on her kitchen wall, faithfully doing its job. Somewhere down the line after that it migrated into my nephew's kitchen, and it may survive for generations.

A pretty but rather crudely chip-carved box I made for her a few years later is one of my younger son's most treasured possessions. Go figure....

And of course, we also still have the leather purse my father made for my mother the first year they were married, with Omar Khayyam's verse inscribed on the inside of its flap:

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
Ah, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

 

Sometime during the construction you have quite rough moment. the boat looks like a strange think. Some more work will be needed to transform this rough wood in a shinny beauty. I like this moment where the work of everyday is toward more and more going to the intended product.
Her heart is solid wood, and that is her beauty (in my eye of course, I will never ask anyone to share that. I am very shelfish )

The planking is done, it took in total 94 hours. More that a thousand screw, more than 100 Dewitt's neoprene catridge, some exploding moment of unhappy planks, some swearing, and a jolly good time.

 

You should not leave the sails hanging around like this!
As long as there is no mast you can stow them away.....

 

Don't be silly. He's using the sails as a boom tent, so he can sleep amidst the fruits of his labor even on rainy nights....

 

but is it an affordable seaworthy cruiser?

 

Someone should have told me that..................

 

Yes she is. Affordable certainly, and seaworthy as a coastal cruiser.

Daniel

 

anyway it looks good