Comments on: Back from Hiatus http://disengage.ca/2010/03/back-from-hiatus/ a quest for the technomadic lifestyle Mon, 14 May 2012 04:21:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: theambiance http://disengage.ca/2010/03/back-from-hiatus/comment-page-1/#comment-181 theambiance Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:15:39 +0000 http://disengage.ca/?p=555#comment-181 Hey Drew, this is Matthew, Jesse introduced us at the last trancemission party. I found your site in your sig on fixed van, I've been lurking there bike geeking it up :D I live on my sailboat in richmond, here are some pictures. http://picasaweb.google.ca/horizonfov/WhatIs# The guy who designed the hull for my boat is Brent Swain. He wrote a book about building boats and lives on his boat and makes a living welding. There's an awesome mailing list called oragami boats on yahoo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/origamiboats/ where people who are building boats discuss various aspects of boat design and solving problems. A topic that comes up frequently is exhaust systems on engines. The long and short of it, is that is that wet exhaust systems fail all the time. Someone on the group quoted a marine mechanic friend as saying there he wouldn't have enough work if everyone used a dry exhaust system. My long term life plan besides having kids one day, is to build a 40 foot steel sailboat. I hope all is well at anchor, I was looking at the marine forecast today, looks like she's confused and headed to swing to a north westerly. I'm itching to get out sailing but the weather has been crap, I keep on saying "maybe next weekend". I went for a walk down to the beach at the bottom of Trafalgar with a couple friends, I saw your boat out there, she's pretty :D -Matthew Hey Drew, this is Matthew, Jesse introduced us at the last trancemission party.
I found your site in your sig on fixed van, I’ve been lurking there bike geeking it up :D

I live on my sailboat in richmond, here are some pictures.
http://picasaweb.google.ca/horizonfov/WhatIs#

The guy who designed the hull for my boat is Brent Swain. He wrote a book about building boats and lives on his boat and makes a living welding. There’s an awesome mailing list called oragami boats on yahoo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/origamiboats/
where people who are building boats discuss various aspects of boat design and solving problems.

A topic that comes up frequently is exhaust systems on engines. The long and short of it, is that is that wet exhaust systems fail all the time. Someone on the group quoted a marine mechanic friend as saying there he wouldn’t have enough work if everyone used a dry exhaust system.

My long term life plan besides having kids one day, is to build a 40 foot steel sailboat.

I hope all is well at anchor, I was looking at the marine forecast today, looks like she’s confused and headed to swing to a north westerly. I’m itching to get out sailing but the weather has been crap, I keep on saying “maybe next weekend”.

I went for a walk down to the beach at the bottom of Trafalgar with a couple friends, I saw your boat out there, she’s pretty :D

-Matthew

]]> By: Varion http://disengage.ca/2010/03/back-from-hiatus/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Varion Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:22:42 +0000 http://disengage.ca/?p=555#comment-175 Oh and here's a list of power consumption so you can figure out whether you can afford the electricity or not... http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/myths/appliances.html -V Oh and here’s a list of power consumption so you can figure out whether you can afford the electricity or not…
http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/myths/appliances.html

-V

]]> By: Varion http://disengage.ca/2010/03/back-from-hiatus/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Varion Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:20:14 +0000 http://disengage.ca/?p=555#comment-174 Thanks for the update! I totally dig learning little things like "boil the thermostats." I wish I was still in vancouver, I just now ran out of some detergent I bought there and the jug is pretty large. I thought of you when i bizarrely stumbled on this page...(Article about rice cooker.) http://www.sallyskitchen.com/ -V Thanks for the update! I totally dig learning little things like “boil the thermostats.”

I wish I was still in vancouver, I just now ran out of some detergent I bought there and the jug is pretty large.

I thought of you when i bizarrely stumbled on this page…(Article about rice cooker.)
http://www.sallyskitchen.com/

-V

]]> By: haidan http://disengage.ca/2010/03/back-from-hiatus/comment-page-1/#comment-173 haidan Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:13:28 +0000 http://disengage.ca/?p=555#comment-173 One time I was on a cross canada train trip and ran out of water around a town called Chapleau (northern ontario), middle of the night while the train is refueling my backpack beside the car in case it takes off without me, I jump the ditch and the hedges into a backyard that had a sprinkler going, I kink the hose and unscrew the sprinkler but the water's not flowing when I unkink the hose so I wander back to the side of the house and there's this lady watering her flowers, (after midnight) there was a serious time crunch here and she had already seen me, so I ask her nonchalantly if she wouldn't mind filling my water jugs, which she has no problem doing at all and is very nice about it, no questions asked about why i'm in her backyard in the middle of the night looking for water in this little northern ontario town, totally casual as though nothing odd at all, she fills my water jugs and I sprint back vault over the hedge jump the ditch and get back to the train. So apparently using other people facets even in their back yards in the middle of the night is not sketchy in the slightest so I wouldn't worry about it. it's kinda like hitch hiking with a jerry can (totally acceptable) as opposed to just hitch hiking (frowned upon). People are funny birds. One time I was on a cross canada train trip and ran out of water around a town called Chapleau (northern ontario), middle of the night while the train is refueling my backpack beside the car in case it takes off without me, I jump the ditch and the hedges into a backyard that had a sprinkler going, I kink the hose and unscrew the sprinkler but the water’s not flowing when I unkink the hose so I wander back to the side of the house and there’s this lady watering her flowers, (after midnight) there was a serious time crunch here and she had already seen me, so I ask her nonchalantly if she wouldn’t mind filling my water jugs, which she has no problem doing at all and is very nice about it, no questions asked about why i’m in her backyard in the middle of the night looking for water in this little northern ontario town, totally casual as though nothing odd at all, she fills my water jugs and I sprint back vault over the hedge jump the ditch and get back to the train. So apparently using other people facets even in their back yards in the middle of the night is not sketchy in the slightest so I wouldn’t worry about it. it’s kinda like hitch hiking with a jerry can (totally acceptable) as opposed to just hitch hiking (frowned upon). People are funny birds.

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