Mini floating dock/bedroom

Hi all

I made this. Still floating

 

The broads tax once you've got insurance , and boat safety certificate, would cost £34.32.

What's it cost on the canals for each of the above?

 

It's a boat, design has been involved and forum people helped you achieve your goals.

Congratulations!

 

Propulsion system needs work!

 

Awesome. Small solar system, battery and trolling motor and you are in business.

 

I love it. Nothing makes a boat a home like a good French press.

This is the kind of project that sets my mind racing with ideas.

How about a stern wheeler and an old bicycle seat and sprocket link?

I was thinking yuloh, but not enough open deck space, unless you could operate it from the cabin rooftop.

 

To borrow a phrase from another boating forum, “ it looks tippy!”
As for the propulsion,A lighter, more ergonomic paddle with streamlined blades and a graspable shaft would help a lot.
Perhaps an extended kayak paddle?

 

I'm already in the business I may use that suggested setup for longer distances, but my aim is to paddle it as much as possible.

 

Indeed. I will be looking into reducing the 8kg this one weights, but I won't be looking into buying anything ready made. I'll get a shaft as thin as possible so it won't break, and may increase or decrease the surface of the blades. Not sure yet.

 

Thanks for posting Pedro. My youngest is a fan of canal boats and camper boats and the like.

8kg paddle ?!?

My homemade stand-up paddle board paddle weights about 900g.
-Handle is 2m long, about 30mm square with rounded corners, made from 3 strips of red cedar laminated with epoxy. The clamping jig is a salvaged 2" (50mm) angle iron screwed to a wooden base. There is a t-bar grip from the same material. There is an angle cut into the handle allowing blade to point 'forward' as one pulls 'backwards'. The shaft and handle are finished with a clear solvent-based finish, no glassing.
-Blade is also cedar, maybe 9mm (3/8") teardrop-shaped, 98sqin [632sqcm) with a simple dihedral rib on the 'push' or back side. The blade is covered in glass cloth and epoxy (back side) and glass cloth and carbon fiber and epoxy on the front side and around the handle. Glass cloth is sufficient for strength IMO but carbon is 'fashionable' so I added it to the side seen by others, with a contrasting logo, as one paddles. I cannot remember which websites I drew influence from, most likely synthesized ideas from a few different ones...

 

Huck Finn would be jealous.

 

@Pedro re the video of you paddling along the canal, it might be feasible to have a pair of oars instead?
You could perhaps sit in the entrance to the cabin, facing forward, and have the oars mounted on oarlocks raised up on plinths on the gunwhales?
You would surely go faster than with a single paddle (although probably not much faster), but your centre of gravity would be considerably lower.

 

One simple word, "quant".



-Will

 

Yes it definitely would. The possibilities are not endless but many.

 

I would have taken your work for it, you didn't have to put it on a scale and provide photo evidence lol
The blades on your paddle look great, I'll almost certainly steal that idea, excluding the epoxy.
Thanks a lot