Making use of old boats

[Wansworth]

If we didn’t live in our western world and managed to see things from a different angle it would be possible to take the keels offsailing boats and prop them up in a mound of earth,plant grass and flowers round and have a perfectly useable home!

 

[PhillM]

Or be like the dutch and create floating villages?

https://www.jlgrealestate.com/2014/02/18/floating-houses/

And there was a TV program on yesterday about a bloke who had his son build him a new home in Shamrock Quay.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-floating-home

 

[Corribee Boy]

I've just installed a large (18') sailing dinghy on a bank of soil in a school playground. We're going to surround it with a sea of blue rubber chippings from recycled tyres, and have supplied the obligatory skull and crossbones to be flown from the crosstrees.

I did once try to convince a client that a small cruiser would make an interesting alternative to a wendy house for his children, but never persuaded him.

 

[Wansworth]

Last year a couple bought an old boat from the yard I am in as a play area for their kids,,, everybody was pleased

 

[steve yates]

My mate has a farm in the trossachs, he was looking at buying these camping pods for tourists, but is now seriously thinking of buying some old boats, transporting them, and burying them to turn into pods.

 

[Daydream believer]

If we didn’t live in our western world and managed to see things from a different angle it would be possible to take the keels offsailing boats and prop them up in a mound of earth,plant grass and flowers round and have a perfectly useable home!

Been done before I think--Do not take the keels off, Just ram them into a mud berth & you do not even have to prop them up. Bit of course grass & some sea weed plus a plank for the patio & there you go

 

[Poignard]

 

[AntarcticPilot]

The Mastodon in "Secret Water" had that idea!

 

[GeeW]

A school in Ryde (IoW) had a West Wight Potter in the playground for the kids for quite a few years. Didn't spot it on my last visit, but the hedge has grown.