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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…
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
Interview with Keith Turley, owner of Stingrayz Bar & Marina…
Shantyboat in the big city or pretty damn close. Chillin…
Down past the confluence with the Feather River approaching Sac,…
Shantyboat on the wide Sacramento. Photo by Mike Garofalo
Shantyboat leaves Colusa. Photo by Mike Garofalo
Evening card tournament aboard the shantyboat
Benzy's drawing of the shantyboat docked at Stingrayz in Knight's…
Knight Landing Drawbridge under which we are docked that creaks…
Hard at work on the Sacramento River
"And, it should be added, many of the shanty-boat types…
Huge catfish dinner thanks to Benzy's newly acquired mad fishing…
The character of the river changes again
I'm getting the band back together. River hobos on the…
The hot dry dusty town of Grimes reminds me of…
Hazel builds a little chuppah in the heat of the…
Jeremiah spends the morning working a particularly tricky knot
Fierce hunter Benzy. 24" cat
Ships hound headed south out of Colusa
We love that people frequently bring us homegrown veggies. Who…
Ships mate Jeremiah Daniels on his birthday, member of shantyboat…
One of the many folks we met in Florence Alabama…
Since Hazel has a more devoted following than the project,…
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