Sailing the Farm - come join our sailing/boatbuilding coop.

[Newfie]

Well, I can't seem to find a good link to the Oar Club anymore. It was set up by Jerome (Jay) Fitzgerald for people who wanted to sail sans motor.

Sorry

[zeyang]

hi newfie
no problem. its just boatbuilding stage i really want to have more people helping.
when i start sailing people will come running for sure


Its hard to resist those small pacific islands where the girls.. ahh. you know..

zeyang

[zeyang]

spent last week working on welding up the boat inside. its a little tricky but goes forward slowly. Maybe manage to weld up 1/4 of the inside sofar. Im working alone now due to easter holiday coming up,so itts a little more slow.

by the way. that lamp is a optimus/petromax. Its hardly use any kerosene and gives light similar to 350 candles. Will be the future of lighting up the boat. Extremely clever system.

zeyang

[zeyang]

hi,
still some problem with the weldingmachine so i took the weekend off and need to think of a solution.

I usually close the door and go away in weekends. working on the boat 7 days a week will make me just crazy so need some time off. .
So this weekend i will go and look at some other boat projects.. (did i say singletrack mind) Especially curious about the interior of an original 100 year old colin archer.


anyway.
here is a picture through the prop app. a cool view.

Will get 2 girls here next week helping me. One has been here a few times before and is really interested in boatbuilding. .



zeyang

[SeaGypsy]

Hey Zeyang, looking good!
Where will you do the fit out?
A friend here in the Philippines is bringing an unfinished mega yacht over from California over the next few weeks to fit out here, getting it done in Subic Bay.
Costs on such here about 25% of those in Aus or the US.
BTW/ When you fit out, make sure you get all timber parts certified as treated and bug free by an internationally recognised/ authorised timber for export treatment place. Otherwise there can be hell to pay, countries like NZ and Aus won't give a cruising permit to vessels containing untreated timber products, due to strict quarantine.
Until recently, the Malay/ Indonesia border area was very popular for Teak fit outs, but they brought in a rediculous requirement for a $20,000 (USD) cash bond to bring private yachts through the country. Cruiser freinds have boycotted going to Indo for this reason, most doubt this system will last once the Indo Government realise nobody is cruising there anymore. Who wants to carry $20k in cash on a small private vessel in Asia? Like carrying honey through a rainforest.

PS. The reason they did this is because of cruisers looting shipwreck sites in Indonesian waters. Some unscrupulous individuals have made millions out of this activity. It still doesn't make sense though. If you hit the shipwreck jackpot, $20k is peanuts, plus the borders with Malaysia and the Philippines are so porous, it would not be difficult to sneak out and stash the loot before sneaking back in to clear port.

[zeyang]

hi seagypsy
sorry for late answer. our intention to post here was to try to get more people join our sailing the farm collective but we found that peakoil/doomer and ordinary sailing place didnt attract much interest of our project so i focus mainly on wwoof/CS and other not typically doomer places to find people with similar dreams who want to join.

anyway. we will do interior ourself,, also sails, rigging etc
its good to gain the knowledge than outsource it.

working on framing up framing now. maybe 1/3 finished. then its deck and rigging.


zeyang

[Newfie]

It's funny, I too have tried to get some cross interest from PO into the sailing/cruising life with no success. However there have been some real interesting doomish related threads on Cruisers Forums.

[zeyang]

we are working on bending the frames now, but also working on bees and planting stuff in the garden. The framing of the boat goes forward, albeit a little slow.
zeyang

[SeaGypsy]

After much deliberation my wife and I have decided to build a floating island aka Richie Sowa's.
This may yet change. I have recently relocated my main base to Darwin, soon mum and bub will be here.
I have found that the yachty gene commonly occurs with the doomer gene.
Yet those with both tend to be out on the water.
China still freaks a lot of people out.
How is it to be living in China?
Can't you get some locals to help?
Cheers anyway, it's coming together nicely.

[jbrovont]

A sailboat with a solid hull and a strong mast has no boudaries. Manned by an able and knowledgable crew, history is a fine testament to what a "blow boat" is capable of. Looking for captains?

[pedalling_faster]

i didn't know you were using aluminum.

work of art !

last time i went sailing for 4 hours in about 5 foot swells ... i was seasick the entire time.

[Narz]

Images from first page aren't working anymore?

Pardon me if I missed it but do you have a website?

[zeyang]

yes. look at projects and pictures on www.weldingweb.com

there you find a bunch of pictures.

zeyang

[zeyang]

Dear Friends.


Sailing the farm tribe - Mid July 2010.

At last, the frames are bend into the boat and soon finished welded
up. That was one long and tedious work but now we are soon moving on
to a much more exiting stuff - laying down the deck and start work on
the interior - then also start to sew up the sails for the boat.

There have been quite a response from last time and august is pretty
much filled up with people coming up to help on boatbuilding and
farming. Somehow the romantic touch of roaming the seven seas as a
wannabe seagypsy seems to attract much more people than we ever
dreamed of, so hopefully in future we will have more boats built and a
real seafaring community. At least that is my wet dream!

Then some farming stuff. The grey cat got 4 kittens some weeks ago,
some very adorable small kittens. One is looking curious at the
boatbuilding. Queen-breeding goes forward as planned. I think we will
manage to more than double amount of hives this year - that is pretty
good. It would not have been possible without help from a swedish
boatbuilding girl which seems to fall in love with queenbreeding
despite quite a few bee-stings during summer.

We have some beds free for september and onwards, so if you are
interesting in joining this uber-cool sea-gypsy tribe project, feel
free to contact us!


Peace and love from
Sailing-the-farm


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Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse

[zeyang]

Sailing the farm tribe - Mid august 2010.

Dear Friends.

Its been a busy august. 9 happy boatbuilding girls and guys have been
here during august and it has been quite busy. We have done quite a
lot of work on the boatproject and have been workingon important but
tedious small stuff like watertanks, coolingtank etc.

We are also working on finding ecovillages on different continent
which we will be a part of the plan when the journey begins. In short
we will sail between ecovillages and change crew and stock up with
food to reach other ecovillages on different continents. if you know
about some ecovillages close to sea which could be interested in
participate please inform us.

But we will try to be as selfsufficient as possible onboard and will
test a small scale hydrophonic solution to grow vegetables while
sailing with as little water usage as possible. Not easy on a boat but
hopefully manage to get some fresh food... (getting enough water is
always problem on a boat)

Then some farm news: We are expanding the garden to grow more tasty
vegetables next year. Even if the fall is coming soon we will try to
grow some more fast growing salads until snow is coming. Our extremely
slow growing tomatoes will be moved indoors and continue with help of
growlamp in our greenhouse. Bees are doing good and we have already
processed some delicous honey from this year. (pure organic stuff)

We have some space for late september and onwards if you are
interested in joining this cool sea-gypsy project. Just drop us a line.


Peace and love from
Sailing-the-farm

Then some pictures. (we are not always working, one picture is a bunch
of happy boatbuilding guys after swimming in the brrr cold lake)

http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?at ... 1281775864
http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?at ... 1281775873
http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?at ... 1281775878
http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?at ... 1281775884

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[Newfie]

Zeyang,

Thanks for the update. Good to see someone out there doing lots of cool and positive stuff.

[zeyang]

Sailing the farm tribe - Week 34 2010.

Dear Friends.

Late august 2010. 6-7 people from europe and south america has been
here last weeks and we suddenly start to feel that summer is soon
over. It has been raining almost every day last week but thankfully
the boatbuilding shed is waterproof.

We are now working on painting the barn and fixing the roof. Not easy
when its 15 meter to the top, but with an expert english scaffold girl
this part goes forward fast. Our small garden is soon ready for
harvest and we have some blue and rasperry raids into the forest so we
will hopefully not run out of jam for the next month or so.

Last week the girls found out that a real boat should have a real
galleon figure and since one of them are an metal artist she think it
would be nice to cast it in aluminium. One of the other girls act as a
model. Sofar it looks nice in plaster, and we look forward to see how
real it will be in aluminium. That blue plaster stuff is amazing.

Thanks to everyone who sent us tips for eco villages. Hopefully some
will be interested in our journey and maybe even want to participate
in our sea gypsy project.

We have some space for late september and onwards if you are
interested in joining this cool sea-gypsy project. Just drop us a line.

Peace and love from
Sailing-the-farm

Pictures from last week: James and Jane Bond with license to screw,
Miss plasterface (Our female galleon model) and our metal artist
posing outside the boat.

<img src="http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=54857&stc=1&d=1282934750" /><br />
<img src="http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=54858&stc=1&d=1282934756" /><br />
<img src="http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=54859&stc=1&d=1282934762" /><br />

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[Newfie]

zeyany,

I couldn't get your links to work so I googled it up.

Hope you don't mind if I post a link here.

http://weldingweb.com/showthread.php?t=29094&page=17

Very imaginative stuff. Young minds are flexible.

Good for ya and your crew.

[Revi]

Awesome boat! I am thinking of getting a boat I can row/ motor and sail, like a Drascombe Lugger for bug-out purposes. I have a place on an island and it would be the way to get there if it gets crazy. (and even if it doesn't it would be a great boat for getting around)

What do you suggest? I have heard of the Sea Pearl, the Norseboat and the sailing Whitehall. I am even considering a catboat, if it will fit on a trailer.

[Newfie]

If you have a few hundred hours to waste then go to yachtworld.com and start poking around. Use the advanced search tool for location/price/type/size/etc. There are tons of interesting boats for sale/sail.

There is a wonderful little Ganely steel junk rigged sloop in Nova Scotia that they are practically giving away.