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Default Shipbreaking in Illinois

On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:24:00 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:09:34 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:31:24 -0500, Ignoramus11086
wrote:

On 2013-06-04, anorton 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


Chances are high that the person interested in doing something like
that would allow it to reside in whatever body of water it is already
floating, don't you think? But with an 80T capacity, building a house
on top would be entirely possible. It's not entirely unlikely. Hell,
people buy and retrofit ICBM missle silos into homes now.


People buy and turn barges into houseboats. And they are often
bigger.

http://www.nachi.org/images10-2/floa...ions_barge.jpg


Hit with several dozen ugly sticks, wot? Wow!


http://www.specialagentsrealty.com/w...6/DSC_0011.jpg


Kinda cute. You could line up all sorts of bikinified girlies on the
top, couldn't you?


http://blog.seattlepi.com/realestate.../Houseboat.jpg


Not too bad.


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