Saturday, November 04, 2006


MY BROTHER'S DREAM

My brother came to me last year with a big dream. He wants to build yes I said build a Chinese Junk Boat. He's talked about this for years but now he's serious. Either he's watched Forset Gump one to many times and loved Bubba who's family had the shrimp business or he's completely gone insane, especially after the look on his wife's face. He had me go on the internet to find junk boat building plans of coarse I tried to explain to him that it's really not that easy to find building plans. So I have spent more than 3 hours and finally got him convinced you can't find such an animal. Oh we found plans you could purchse but no details came with them. His idea is to build a Junk boat and have it built like a yacht on the inside do to his wife not being very favorable with the idea any how. He wants it big enough so the whole family can go and live on this thing and be rid of the world. Now your talking 1 mother who still is alive 6 children and then their children too, so let me see that's 28 of us on one big rig. I got to admit we are a very close family and we all do get a long real well. So let me get back o his dream he wan'ts a couple 4 wheelers so we can go inland to buy supplies only. He tells me we won't have to pay no more taxes ever again and this sorry government can kiss our asses. Well almost don't sound too bad. So this year he plans on starting to build this junk rig and he's very serious. So I ask him about a building permit said he doesn't have to have one he's not digging in the yard for a permament structure. I brought up hurricanes no problem we'll move away from all danger zones, which is true , he tells me just think about it no more cold weather we just sail to a different area every time. All of us like to fish so here we go Shrimp all you want lobster OMG. I alsp brought to mind any unfriendly waters we travel to.
I've been looking and these rigs can be up to 490 ft long. I think that's about a block long. It'll also have solar panels to charge generators. Oh he's got it all figured out.
This story came to mind thanks to BBC and his fine yacht he posted.

2 Comments:

Blogger BBC said...

Way cool.... I sure do support him doing that. I love those old sailing designs. I know folks that live on boats and travel all over the world.

4:12 PM  
Blogger paris said...

That's exactly what his dream is and yet he wants to take all of us with him he's so family oriented and I just love him for that....I got the best brothers in the world there isn't a day they don't tell us girls they love us....

5:02 AM  

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