Rogues & Ugly Boats!

Some fresh meat for the thread...

If IKEA designed river barges:

found the sister ship.
http://www.yachtforums.com/threads/34-6m-cid-launched-at-feadship.27919/

This is a painful Broward to look at. It started life as "I Lorraine" before that abomination up top was welded on...

Pic two is the Acadia 85 that was supposed to set the world on fire a few yrs. ago with "new technology" It has 5 or 6 kw worth of photovoltaic cells in the coach top and can run all systems from inverters except of course the air conditioning. The entire salon and wheel house overheads are glass photo cells. Difficult to cool the boat so the builder has a U.S. specification that calls for a chiller in the 200,000 BTU range. The barge that the 85 will have to tow behind it carrying the needed batteries for AC is optional...

Cirque du Soleil Flats Boat.

Here's a new model that the builder is exceptionally proud of. Looks like an Aqua Panda.

Vancouver has a big group of people who try to live cheap in a very expensive city by living on crappy boats anchored either in the nice, protected area in the middle of the city (False Creek) or in the less protected waters of English Bay (just off of Kits Point/Beach).

Some of them resort to interesting add-ons to increase their living space e.g. this Cal 25 with a more permanent pop-top:



This guy decided to go for a much larger living space: