I don’t remember exactly how much the plans cost since it was nearly 30 years ago. At that time I was really enamoured on the pontoon idea and the plans had full-sized drawings for the framing. But the plans are long gone and these days I’m leaning much more towards the barge hull...
Back then the island was about a half mile long and, perhaps, a quarter mile wide at its widest. But over the intervening years hurricanes had reduced it to a sand spit a couple of hundred yards long. I wanted to see it. I made it as far as Carrabelle in the eastern panhandle of ...
If you are in Minnesota or Iowa, I’vealready done the planning for you. You can drive to Nebraska on Sunday, stay in an inexpensive motel or camp that night, drive a few miles on Monday to see the eclipse, and get home Monday night. You can probably do it for a hundred bucks. I...