Queen Mary 2

The Queen Mary 2, a beautiful ship that took us across the North Atlantic in 7 days from New York, USA to Southampton, England. The weather was wet except for day 1, after that it was rough seas with gale force winds. It was not very rough; I do not believe anyone was sea sick.

The elevator. What can I say. I take weird photos.

 The hot tubs/pools of the stern (back of the ship - I have to use nautical terms, after all I am a sailor) of the ship.

Brian's cottage 'Tranquility Base' on Lake Nipissing
Lake Nipissing is a very large lake west of North Bay. The yellow dot on the map is mainland boat house where the car is parked and the boat is stored. It takes approximately 20 minutes to reach Tranquility Base the red dot.

Other floating boats/homes

Here a some other creations:

1. 2 storie pontoon boat from Montreal. I saw this in front of the NAC in Ottawa

2. The house trailer on a barge; I found this on the Internet.

3. A house boat (floating home) in British Columbia.

4. 2 canoes lashed together on Georgian Bay. This father and son team with their 2 dogs travel the North channel every summer.

September 2012 is fast approaching and there is still a lot to do. Progress over the summer was slow but steady. I will let the pictures speak for themselves.

Better late than never

A lot of work was done in the summer of 2010. We finally have a solid roof that we can walk on. This will be our upper deck with deck chairs and umbrella. You can also pitch a tent and sleep up there.

By the end of the summer we want to have all of the doors and windows in place, a barbeque and a small wood burning tent stove.

We have set September 2012 as our departure date. We are not sure if the boat will be in the water before then; however, in September we are taking the boat to Key West Florida - our new vacation place.

This summer's progress seems really slow. Actually we are progressing. Water doesn't get into the boat anymore - 2 months of trial and error. The roof is not on permanently, the plywood is nailed to the 2 x 4s.

The roof caved in. Little did I now that snow heavy, plus the layer of ice rom the freezing rain. We removed the snow and ice in February in -10 degree weather. Thank goodness it was sunny.

In April, the plywood and tarp flew off and filled the boat with the boat with water.