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We are under way. Down the Champlain Canal after ascending…
New deck cleat plates and the tools required to install…
Because we have so many cool old stone buildings we…
Looking up the coal elevator near the marina
Hazel hero shot. Contemplating her soon-to-be nautical life
First cup of coffee sitting on the deck in sunshine…
We arrived in Whitehall NY at Lock 11 after 3038…
New Yawk finally
Stumbled across this bit of ‘Merica
Fuck Indiana roads. Are they trying to rival California’s notoriously…
Flooding in West Central Illinois on the Illinois River
Hauling butt through Iowa. More than halfway
Ceremonial witchcraft to salute the deer people who have died…
Keeping the driver awake with lurid and prurient tales: “She…
Shantyboat life at the Continental Divide. Stop and make coffee…
The landscape of Wyoming is so powerful and evocative, it…
Top of Skeeter Mountain, Utah
The world. It is so beautiful. We must howl
Shantyboat at the Thunder Mountain Indian Monument along I80 in…
Shantyboat in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
We outta here. Underslept Benzy gives a wan wave
Images printed on silk for Secret History NYC show
Secret History photos printed on silk organza for NYC show…
Treating the edges of several hundred feet of Secret History…
Now from Redwood House Labs comes the Trailer Tester™! For…
The Goodmans, Brett and Andi in the Felton Remembers Parade
Evidence of at least five different shantyboat projects on the…
Benzy and I host an impromptu all-night solder party to…
Extracting Miah from the notorious aft port hold
Workday impromptu twist party
So many things still to do before we can leave…
Incremental improvements on the shantyboat. New urinal pipe and blocks…
I broke my vow not to do any more plumbing…
Shantyboat Dotty control panel finally finished
Art for the shantyboat gallery from Jessika and Jimmy Gallop…
Morning on the shantyboat at the Tannery Art Center
Secret History shantyboat at Ebb and Flow
Maximum capacity 425 adults
Shantyboat looking shipshape for exhibition on Cooper Street
Previous shipmates will know the terror of towing the shantyboat,…
The shantyboat library of ToDo Lists Past
New additions to the Jeremiah Alexander Daniels Executive Washroom Gallery…
Join us at Ebb and Flow in Santa Cruz tonight…
Whew. New shantyboat electrical control panel
Shantyboat wiring. Oh god
Amateur machinist work on the shantyboat control panel
Re-wiring the shantyboat control panel
Modifying the new boat stairs for Secret History exhibitions. An…
Visitors on the boat after the parade
Forgot something? Felton remembers
Proving that the project is not above child labor, we…
On Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2, The shantyboat…
Rediscovering our secret cache of Dr Thunder’s Peachy Fire Whiskey…
This is the Norwegian Shantytown located in Red Hook, Brooklyn.…
Interview with Janet Bennett at the Dutra Museum of Dredging…
Interview with Daniela Sartori in Red Bluff about living on…
Large wreck under stormy skies on Sevenmile Slough as we…
Playing cards on the Davis to Sacramento train. We had…
The Goodman's visit the shantyboat
Adorable old houseboats anchored in Little Potato Slough
Relaxing in the johnboat among the tule
Kim Korth talked about the history of Korth's Pirate's Lair…
A delta shop boat. "The Fraser Bros were the local…
Old photos of shantyboats at Wood Island at the Rio…
Tim Anderson, boatbuilder, maker, and heirloom technologist at his DeltaFarm,…
Campfire at Tim Anderson's DeltaFarm at the confluence of the…
Why is it that some people who own big expensive…
The peaceful and rustic back channel behind Snug Harbor off…
One of a surprising number of visible wrecks in the…
Interview with Russell Ooms about his sinuous journey to Locke,…
Interview with photographer, author, and historian James Motlow about the…
Talked to Can, a Vietnamese electronics designer, who owns Bob's…
Iva at Mei Wah taproom where we are chillin drunk…
Lucious lucious pears on pancakes for shantyboat breakfast
The mostly girl crew of the Sea Scout vessel Compass…
Interviewing Mark Miller at Railroad Cut Slough behind Locke. We…
Walnut Grove docks after breakfast at Alma's
Bank on Locke Slough upon which a whole community of…
Community garden in the historic little town of Locke
Mark Miller who has already helped us in a number…
Put a huge branch through a window trying to land…
Good morning sun. On Sutter Slough
Shantyboat beached along Sutter Slough
Thistlelandia
In Courtland, they tell us, they have an annual Pear…
Attempting to thread our way through the delta sloughs piloting…
Night out in the sloughs, the network of labyrinthian waterways…
Classic shantyboat, Phoenix, at Sherwood Marina
3rd interview of the morning with Andrew McLeod, historian and…
Interview with Kathy Brunetti. We talked about her decades of…
Interview with Nancy about her time living aboard a shantyboat…
Bar camping out for 25 years, currently along the American…
Maddy and friends show up on a scavenger hunt from…
Clyde was motor about in a tiny boat with his…
The mysterious Party Yacht Wall on the American River
Shantyboat full of visitors at Sac exhibition
Fanny Ann's Saloon in Old Town Sac, 5 stories of…
Shantyboat encounters the cutest thing in the whole world
Dramatic bridge downtown Sacramento
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