Sunday’s NY Times ran an interesting article about offshore cities being planned in Saudi Arabia, i.e., liveaboard islands. See drawings here that look like sci-fi novel covers.
Technically these are mobile liveaboards, both the blue-hulled QV–somewhat sci-fi herself– and the tug Maryland.
These, which I posted about here last year, are mostly immobile.
Craigslist has one for sale here.
The blue Sandy G is a domicile that rocks (on windy days:) , not far from the Big Oyster (a must-read, by the way). I’d love to know something about the history of Sandy G. Read this link about the BQE imminently becoming a waterfront location like the canals of my favorite city, Amsterdam. Then again, if I moved back onto the water, I’d want a location like Bryan and Judy’s in Majuro.
Then there’s this option: take a fiberglass houseboat, attach a wraparound flotation deck not unlike Huck Finn’s raft, then add an expansion supported on the deck. Move in, and wait for strong wind. Eeek!
Much better versions from around the world here.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp
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January 23, 2008 at 4:04 pm
suburbanlife
Vancouver’s Coal Harbour in the 60s was a place for houseboats. These have gradually been displaced into outlying waterways since then. When I lived in Neuilly-Sur-Seine in 66, there were a number of converted barge live-aboards on the Seine there. These were amazingly individual and livable, but sadly mainly for the well-to-do. The plans for housing in Arab lands look like variations on the bee-hive; whether designed by architects or not, they have a levelling, homogenizing character on those who make their bolt-hole there. I would not consider that any sort of life for myself; I think it would be dreadful and great opportunity for sensory deprivation. But then of course, we live in time of facsimile experiences, do we not? G