laklak wrote:We looked into a geodesic dome on stilts, basically a solid yurt. Several nice things about geodesics; they're relatively hurricane proof, they have a shitload of internal space for their surface area, and like a yurt, you get nice ventilation with an opening at the top and around the bottom. Dog Island has no bridge access, but there's a WWII landing craft you can rent for $500 one way to the mainland. It's only about 5 miles offshore, but that's about as isolated as you can get on the Gulf Coast. Actually, with my party barge thing I could carry most of the materials for a dome myself and just use the landing craft for the bigger pieces. Getting shipping containers there would be a bit of a problem, I don't know if they'd fit on the landing craft and moving them into position would be a major headache without access to much in the way of heavy equipment.
That boat is da bomb, piscator. Bit more than I need but damn I'd like one like that.
That shippy little Monk with the longline reel? She'll only go sailboat speed, but she's clean. Shelikoff Strait has a southerly set of about 1/2 knot. This current can stand up the face of the waves and make for a short steep sea when the wind is out of the North half of the compass. This means that a 30-odd foot boat heading north up the Strait can make heavy weather out of a 4' sea,

while a southbound boat of similar build can be deep frying chicken in her little galley.
The shape of that 60s vintage Monk will make craft work of a headsea in the Strait, her flopperstoppers allow her to haul back gear in the trough, and her cut of the water should keep her from surfing bad enough to slew in anything I'd expect to encounter in the summer on the leeward side of Kodiak.
That LC burns gasoline which is, like, $5-$6 gallon in LB. So figure $100/hr to run the little fucker, if you stay out of the throttle. For $30K, I can stretch an aluminum seine skiff that already has a 5.9 Cummins and a Hamilton jet. Cost less than 1/2 to fuel it, comparatively. I could add fish bins.
I also need a setting skiff and a packing skiff to have a paying beach seine operation. The setting skiff doesn't have to be much, but the packing skiff has to (ostensibly) make a 50-mile turn to Larsen Bay in jig time, loaded with ice and fish.
A site like I have could produce 30-50,000 lbs of sockeye in a season, and a significant part of that could come over a weekend. Yee haa. Without a tender vessel with refrigerated sea water, the best option is to pack fish on ice to the processor for top $$. At 20knts, it's a little over an hour each way to sell the fish. I'd like to be able to sell $4-$5000 worth of fish at a wack, and only use the 8-knot Monk to tender loads on the bigger days.
Some things, like a crane and landing barge, you may just have to smile and pay the man what he asks, because it's the cheapest way at the end of the day.
Somewhere in another thread I think you mentioned having surveyed in your past. If you have a level and level rod, you can find the FEMA benches in your area online and run a good tight loop or two through your lot so you know you'll be clear of the flood zone. It won't be legal if you're not registered of course, but You can use it, and if a railroad spike gets hammered in a power pole or hackberry tree out in front of your place, it might be real convenient to have an unofficial FEMA elevation on it.
