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Default Shipbreaking in Illinois

Ignoramus11086 wrote:
I wonder if someone might want to turn that into a houseboat. There are a
lot of them in California, I do not know about the great lakes.


You have to be joking, it is a 100 ton boat


And they are used all the time to build into homes. Here are some
floating homes for sail.

http://www.jbsfloatinghomes.idxco.co...8/featured.php

As far as the regulations, marine regs make the DOT look like great
guys. LOT's of regs, plus there is very likely some haz-mat involved
since the feds were not concerned about that stuff.

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