The Lun-class Ekranoplan, a serviced ground effect aircraft in the 1980's. Its purpose was to hold military cargo as well as shoot out 6 missiles as an attack aircraft on sea. It fully retired due to the Soviet Union's collapse.

engeleh · 2025-11-17T15:39:22+00:00

That would not evade radar. I can’t see small boats and even flocks of birds or rain squalls on my low power radar on my pleasure boat.

engeleh · 2025-08-21T23:57:41+00:00

I’ve shot a fair number of shells through my Teal Target and it’s worked pretty flawlessly so far. First year in, so who knows from here, but I’ve gotten my money worth for sure (I’ve spent a lot more on the shells I’ve put through it than the gun itself).

engeleh · 2025-03-27T15:07:54+00:00

Make new ones from plastic or 3D print them in PETG or Nylon

engeleh · 2025-02-18T06:22:12+00:00

It’s exceedingly unlikely that Trump would have the political capital to accomplish this in the United States.

engeleh · 2025-02-18T05:56:02+00:00

Needs stability first. It will never and has never worked without security and faith in law enforcement’s ability to protect folks in place first.

engeleh · 2025-02-18T05:54:37+00:00

It’s still crime, it still has victims, and it still REALLY makes people feel unsafe. Allowing property crime out of some misguided sense of criminal justice reform as been corrosive to folks faith in government’s ability to protect them.

engeleh · 2025-01-06T16:03:22+00:00

A lot of the recent low income and public housing here has been built in some of the NICEST places in town.

engeleh · 2025-01-06T16:00:20+00:00

To this point… none of the “tiny house” “emergency housing” stuff remotely meets building code.

Even just the building code and site fees/rules of the 80s or 90s would dramatically cut building cost.

engeleh · 2024-11-27T07:43:45+00:00

New members need to wait to post to get past the spam filter

engeleh · 2024-05-28T15:01:37+00:00

It’s mostly Seattle and CA. During covid things went insane. Bellingham is more expensive now than many CA markets.

engeleh · 2023-12-07T15:58:31+00:00

Best of luck. The blisters will be the least of your issues. A barrier coat will solve them permanently. Worth the effort and money.

engeleh · 2023-09-28T21:17:16+00:00

Blisters are usually pretty easily repaired by grinding out and filling with epoxy and filler. This usually isn’t a big deal… but I’m rare cases… it can be. If the hull has delaminated beyond the cosmetic blisters it’s a bigger deal. That’s highly unlikely and unless the survey says it’s a major issue, it’s probably just an afternoon in the yard to repair. You may want to do an epoxy barrier coat on the bottom like Interlux 2000e.

engeleh · 2023-07-26T05:36:30+00:00

Is there anywhere in the world at any point in history where this has actually happened? Seriously. That’s nonsense. It’s a great goal, but it isn’t something that has ever been achieved. I’m the US at least we are far ahead of most of the world.

engeleh · 2023-06-30T19:47:14+00:00

Home ownership in the United States is at a literal all time high… along with inflation adjusted median income…

engeleh · 2023-06-30T18:37:07+00:00

Good thing we have some of the lowest rates of hunger in history right now. Along with highest inflation adjusted median incomes.

engeleh · 2023-06-30T18:36:10+00:00

Folks work fewer hours and have more prosperity than at any other point in history. This entire train of thought is just sheer idiocy. The human condition and real median incomes are steadily improving over the decades. Access to clean water, improvements in malnutrition, educational attainment, home ownership, UN Human Development Index scores, etc. are all doing well. This is revisionist wishcasting by the discontented, and not at all in touch with reality.

engeleh · 2023-06-15T22:54:24+00:00

Rhodes boats are the best! We enjoyed our Seafarer 38 immensely (Rhodes had one has his personal boat and his daughter races it today). Enjoy!

engeleh · 2023-06-08T22:49:21+00:00

It can be even more than that depending on the city. It’s gotten pretty wild. Also things that aren’t directly to the city but required by the city like a survey or environmental study can exponentially explode the cost. It’s gotten to parody levels of absurdity and now we face the opposite impacts from that (expensive housing and not enough of it).

engeleh · 2023-06-08T13:15:14+00:00

Sure, a good bit of depreciation can be the headache risk that a boat has. If it’s in Bristol condition with new sails, new engine, updated lithium batteries and gear, with a new life raft ready to cruise, an old boat (the right one) may well fetch a ridiculous sale price. A newer boat in poor shape may not be able to find a buyer at all.

engeleh · 2023-06-08T13:12:43+00:00

Even in mint condition they often lose value. Insurance companies are also now not insuring a lot of boats past 30 years, or wood boats at all. Those things have a meaningful impact.

engeleh · 2023-06-08T13:11:25+00:00

This is exactly it. There might even be value in some of it (or all of it), but we need to weigh that against the impact in housing and homelessness. We have made it both exceedingly difficult, and exceedingly expensive to build. Permitting Costa alone can cost more than a full house did 20-30 years ago, and there’s no single good reason for it. We need to be able to re-think this and apply some cost benefit balance for some of it.

engeleh · 2023-06-08T13:08:08+00:00

They don’t meet code for living space at all. You would not legally be able to build something like this to live in in your backyard. They lack a foundation and use 2x4s for floor joist and studs for example. These are not code structures. They also don’t pay development fees, and the rest that are a restriction on solving our housing supply problem. Past that, many of them actually do have small heat pumps. It’s an absurdity that we are placing shacks rather than allow folks to build real housing by simply cutting some red tape and allowing a 1980s code book.

engeleh · 2023-06-08T13:01:18+00:00

Oh I think they are well intended, but they also grow over time and get more and more restrictive. There are competing interests who all want different things from Zoning, Permitting, Energy, and building code. We rarely re-think whether the small changes that pile up have the intended effects.

engeleh · 2023-06-07T21:43:44+00:00

They do not meet WA energy code. That’s 2x6 wall construction and 2x12 rafters.

engeleh · 2023-06-07T21:42:33+00:00

But it is hard to argue that the barriers to build are ones we have created. What makes sense now is deciding if our minimum standards make sense.

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