Jan 19, 2010: Boat Style Shelter

xoxoxoBruce · 01-18-2010, 11:04 PM

Well, yesterday I gave you a beautiful place, with room for books. But were you happy? Noooooooooo.
The books are too high, the couch is ugly, the chairs are too small, the guitar is dusty... ya whining maggots.

OK, then you'll get a prefab, high tech, self contained, unibomber cabin.

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Winter shelter in the Arctic can take form in an upside down hunting boat – a traditional Inuit practice. Covey Island Boatworks has brought that idea into dry dock , developing a prototype wood and epoxy prefab that applies boatbuilding principles directly to an extreme Arctic home.
The prefab idea spent nearly three years in development and was completed last summer. The result is a highly-insulated, prefabricated modular home that can be assembled on-site. The extreme setting requires off-grid living and this Arctic prototype is equipped with solar, wind and marine driven systems.

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Covey Island Boatworks partner Brock Junkin has taken up residence in the prototype in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, testing the shipwrights’ first venture into (very cold) dry land dwellings and systems. The company, which operates out of Petite Riviere in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, is researching the possibility of producing similar prefabs in the future.

So you all can go live off the grid, away from decent people that appreciate nice houses. Harrumph. :p

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Gravdigr · 01-19-2010, 04:13 AM

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The extreme setting requires off-grid living and this Arctic prototype is equipped with solar, wind and marine driven systems.

They ain't all that green. Is that a (fossil) fuel tank to the right? Of course, up there, it does get cold as a polar bear's nuts. Colder, actually.

glatt · 01-19-2010, 07:31 AM

Heat rises. I like it that the sleeping loft is up in the "rafters" where it's warmer. Just like in a properly built igloo, where the sleeping platform is higher than the rest.

squirell nutkin · 01-19-2010, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

Heat rises. I like it that the sleeping loft is up in the "rafters" where it's warmer. Just like in a properly built igloo, where the sleeping platform is higher than the rest.

Actually, to get all technical and nit-picky with you, heat moves towards cold in any direction. Hot air rises.

Sheldonrs · 01-19-2010, 11:11 AM

Would have been funnier if the house was located in ANCHORage.

newtimer · 01-19-2010, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Is that a (fossil) fuel tank to the right?

Blubber-burning stove. As the Inuit proverb says: "Blubber that you harvest yourself warms you twice."

xoxoxoBruce · 01-19-2010, 10:03 AM

I don't think this was about being green, more like survival.

Gravdigr · 01-20-2010, 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by newtimer

Blubber-burning stove. As the Inuit proverb says: "Blubber that you harvest yourself warms you twice."

Hmm...

Shawnee123 · 01-19-2010, 08:22 AM

Unabomber.

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The Unabomber was the target of one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) most costly investigations. Before Kaczynski's identity was known, the FBI used the handle "UNABOM" ("UNiversity and Airline BOMber") to refer to his case, which resulted in the media calling him the Unabomber.

Spexxvet · 01-19-2010, 09:27 AM

I wonder if they would work in Haiti.

classicman · 01-19-2010, 10:07 AM

Why why why would anyone EVER want to be there? solitude is one thing and the place is kinda neat, but eff that. I'll take a nice warm lil place in Caribbean over that any day.

Diaphone Jim · 01-19-2010, 11:23 AM

What does the marine do, run on a treadmill?

xoxoxoBruce · 01-19-2010, 11:29 AM

Only if he wants to take off.

TheMercenary · 01-19-2010, 07:48 PM

I could live in that.

SPUCK · 01-20-2010, 05:07 AM

Polar Bear Pocket Bread..

01-19-2010, 11:11 AM	#5
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01-19-2010, 10:03 AM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I don't think this was about being green, more like survival. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-19-2010, 09:27 AM	#10
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	I wonder if they would work in Haiti. __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

01-19-2010, 10:07 AM	#11
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Why why why would anyone EVER want to be there? solitude is one thing and the place is kinda neat, but eff that. I'll take a nice warm lil place in Caribbean over that any day. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-19-2010, 11:29 AM	#13
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Only if he wants to take off. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-19-2010, 07:31 AM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Heat rises. I like it that the sleeping loft is up in the "rafters" where it's warmer. Just like in a properly built igloo, where the sleeping platform is higher than the rest.

01-19-2010, 11:23 AM	#12
Diaphone Jim Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northern California Posts: 2,122	What does the marine do, run on a treadmill?

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TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	I could live in that. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-20-2010, 05:07 AM	#15
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Polar Bear Pocket Bread..

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