An interesting approach to boat design :-)

[Kaa]

http://www.mobilia-gallery.com/exhibits/tloeser2008/index.html

e.g.

http://mocoloco.com/tom_loeser_flotilla.jpg

Kaa

[Songololo]

"I told you, I'm not going in the water!":

http://mocoloco.com/tom_loeser_flotilla.jpg


"I've had enough, I can't go any further...":

http://www.mobilia-gallery.com/assets/tloeser_2008_exhibit.jpg

[Noah]

Now that's Hog...

[Hwyl]

I bet you could get half a dozen real boats for the price of one of those artsy monstrosities.

This copy is pertinent


In perhaps the film’s most memorable scene, the
protagonist’s best friend, a French-speaking ice cream vendor named Raymond, drags him to a
nearby rooftop to see something that he can’t believe. The two peer over the parapet and see,
on the neighboring rooftop, an unfinished wooden boat with a man laboring over it. The scene
is quiet and the camera lingers allowing the viewer to take in the sight of this urban Noah and
his modest ark. After a moment, both characters mutter in their native tongues, “It’s amazing”.
In closing, Ghost Dog wonders how the man will get it down from there.


Let me give another couple examples of the mystique of the boat. Among my parents’ tales
of growing up in Detroit, there is one that features a neighbor spontaneously digging a large
earthen ramp and punching a sizable hole in the basement wall in order to drag a wooden

boat from the depths below.

[bamamick]

What's it rate? (sorry, I just had to)

Mickey Lake

[Lew Barrett]

Tough to spile and bend in the planks for.

[James McMullen]

Frame & stringer construction is for sissies! Let's see him plank that up lapstrake!

[Dave R]

Gee, if I'd known a boat could be shaped like that, I'd just go to Home Depot and buy 2x4s. Most of them are shaped like that already.