Jan 19, 2010: Boat Style Shelter

[xoxoxoBruce]

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.

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.

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]

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]

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.

[Shawnee123]

Unabomber.

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]

I wonder if they would work in Haiti.

[newtimer]

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]

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

[classicman]

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.

[squirell nutkin]

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]

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

[Diaphone Jim]

What does the marine do, run on a treadmill?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Only if he wants to take off.

[TheMercenary]

I could live in that.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by newtimer

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

Hmm...

[SPUCK]

Polar Bear Pocket Bread..