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Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by atjoslin » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 10:08 PM UTC

jessaustin wrote: post #119

hoopism wrote: post #53

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One of these: http://www.junglehammock.com/ and a nice Kayak is your key to staying on any coastline or island. If there's nobody there... then nobody will mind. Ownership = headache.

Holy crap I hope those are nice. The cheapest hammock they offer costs several times the most expensive tent I've ever purchased. When I kayak camp I generally just bring a tarp and a self-inflating pad.

You can get the generally most popular camping hammock, an eno, with straps and a tarp for $70 + $20 + $80 (eno website). You can get my favorite, the appalachian hammock with a slot for insulation during winter, with a tarp for $99 + $150 [2].

You need a sleeping bag to put in the hammock too too, but most people have those. =

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by jacquesm » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 10:09 PM UTC

joonix wrote: post #162

jacquesm wrote: post #86

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I still have 100 acres for sale there if you're interested ;)

Do you have a link?

No, but I do have an address if you want, drop me a line via email please, j@ww.com.

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by atjoslin » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 10:12 PM UTC

brd529 wrote: post #151

hoopism wrote: post #53

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One of these: http://www.junglehammock.com/ and a nice Kayak is your key to staying on any coastline or island. If there's nobody there... then nobody will mind. Ownership = headache.

Looks cool. I've always thought sleeping in a Hammock would be nice, but as a stomach sleeper I wonder if it would really be possible. Are things flat and taught enough that you can stomach sleep on them?

(I sleep in hammocks pretty often) If you set it up taut and lie diagonlly (eg head on left, feet on right, stomach on middle), you will be pretty flat.

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by bdcs » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 10:12 PM UTC

tynan wrote: post #85

scrumper wrote: post #33

Congratulations! That's a fantastic project and a very cool retreat. I'm curious about: - Ownership structure. With 10 of you, how have you prepared for people falling out or wanting out? - What are you allowed to build on it? - How do you access it? Do you have to pay a boatman to take you out there?

It's an LLC. We have bylaws to deal with people wanting out, but we intentionally make it very difficult (island llc gets 1st right of refusal, every member gets a right of refusal after that, and we must approve of any buyer). The idea is that it's an investment in utility, not in dollars. One bad person on the island could ruin everyone's experience, so we guard against that. We're going to be building next year, s…

Sounds like you have done your research, but if you haven't heard of hexa-yurts, check them out! Here's a picture of different designs: http://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt.com/all_yurts_edit.j...

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by r00fus » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 10:14 PM UTC

raldi wrote: post #28

What is it about islands that gives them their mystique? I don't think a post entitled, "My friends and I bought a five-acre plot of land near Halifax" would have garnered as much attention.

I think part of it is the fact that this 5-acre land plot has a giant moat encircling it. When the zombie apocalypse hits, they'll be glad they spent the cash, though.

Also most human cultures either grew from river or coastland - the availability of fish and other resources that a large body of water provides is very comforting to us descendants of those peoples at a very basic level, I imagine.

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by Ives » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 10:14 PM UTC

chaosmatic wrote: post #169

fibertbh wrote: post #164

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Off-topic, I know, but are we calling 2008 "2k8" now? Is last decade the 2k's?

I believe the practice starts with resistors, and because of differences in use of . and , and the fact they are hard to tell apart, the units are placed in stead of the . ie 1,500 ohm -> 1k5 ohm

Exactly, which means 2k8 is actually 2800, and not 2008.

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by pavel_lishin » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 10:14 PM UTC

lutusp wrote: post #147

jacquesm wrote: post #123

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Living on the mainland near the sea is not the same as living on a very small island more than a few hundred meters off-shore. See, the mainland has sweetwater running under it all the way to the sea shore and even a little bit beyond, depth and density will vary but it is always there. But a small island surrounded by ocean need not be like that, more than likely it is of a rocky composition (otherwise it would simp…

> It all depends on the actual situation but the chances are rather against it. Not really. It's a matter of drilling carefully: http://geography.about.com/library/misc/ucghyben.htm "On low, small islands that are largely composed of coral or other porous materials, salt water intrusion into the underlying interior is quite common. The drilling or digging of wells on these islands and especially on along the shorelin…

> Not really. It's a matter of drilling carefully.

Oh my god. Tynan & Co. are LARPing Dwarf Fortress.

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by edkennedy » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 10:15 PM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #77

jacquesm wrote: post #36

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In lakes the rules are extremely strict, for an island in the ocean the rules are much more permissive. No matter what the rules you typically want to keep your impact as low as possible or your island feeling will soon be replaced by something more akin to living in a small polluted town. Legally all your island really is is a bit of land surrounded by shoreline and that shoreline is the interesting bit. It may auto…

Presumably the island is still part of Canada, right? I doubt you could get away with trying to start your own little sovereign country on it.

I have a friend who investigated the possibility of this, he owned a small island off the coast of another larger inhabited island. Although he wasn't far enough off the coast to be declared international (ie international waters) he did tell me that in Canada he could issue commemerative coins (although not his own currency) and stamps.

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by javert » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 10:21 PM UTC

Ives wrote: post #176

chaosmatic wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the practice starts with resistors, and because of differences in use of . and , and the fact they are hard to tell apart, the units are placed in stead of the . ie 1,500 ohm -> 1k5 ohm

Exactly, which means 2k8 is actually 2800, and not 2008.

Knowing nothing about resistors, though, 2k8 intuitively means 2008. So I like this way of doing it.

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by hudibras » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 10:22 PM UTC

brd529 wrote: post #151

hoopism wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of these: http://www.junglehammock.com/ and a nice Kayak is your key to staying on any coastline or island. If there's nobody there... then nobody will mind. Ownership = headache.

Looks cool. I've always thought sleeping in a Hammock would be nice, but as a stomach sleeper I wonder if it would really be possible. Are things flat and taught enough that you can stomach sleep on them?

Here's a good primer on hammock camping:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00639GF4C/ref=wms_ohs_prod...