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  1. boucaneer

    hello from boating squatter from london.

    ok then!
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    Boiling water?

    yeah, his name is bear grills. we do work on his boat somtimes. nice boat, very sturdy. i saw somone on youtube fill a plastic bottle right up to the top with water untill it overflowed and then screwed the kid back on and put it on some embers. they said that because no air was in the bottle...
  3. boucaneer

    hello from boating squatter from london.

    your welcome mate.
  4. boucaneer

    rafting the mississippi...

    only illeagal because you were drunk. other than that it should be perfectly legal.
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    Anarchist Yacht Club

    i would lend a hand with advice and stuff, on certain nights in the evening over a few beers at our table we have over 200 combined years experience of boating. i am sitting in a boat club right now.
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    Boat Hitchhiking

    you could learn to crew, some small boat clubs need volunteers to help with work parties in the boat yard, they would teach you things like knots and simple tides and helmsmanship. you might even blag a few free courses from their club instuctor and have somthing on paper. then you would be...
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    mega bus. com

    can you book the bus if you hav'nt got a credit or debit card or bank account. i'm blacklisted.
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    Advice for Showering & Staying Clean

    yeah lake or river much better. you might not want all that flouride being osmosised into ones skin to try to make one compliant, flouride and all the other drugs they put into the residential water systems. you can buy or make reverse osmosis hand pumps for taking the floride out of the water...
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    hello from boating squatter from london.

    aww man, it's a right pain in the arse here on the thames in london. the cabin cruiser is only 16' so nice and cheap to move in inland off the tidal thames, they charge by the square metreage for a river licence, keep moving about every two weeks more that one lock/watergate ways so only a...
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    spray painting tarps and tents

    cheap acrilic paint from an art shop, they sell it cheap in 500ml and 750ml plastic bottles and mix it with half the amount with a textile medium to make it plyable, try not to put it on to thick or it will be too heavy. plan your disruptive pattern/camo in your head. you can also buy a...
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    Keeping Warm, Warming/Insulation for squats in the winter

    Keeping Warm if the sleeping bag does'nt do up then the zipper teeth might need respacing. look closley at the zipper teeth and see if there out of wack. the teeth need to be equal spaces apart. insert a small metal type object inbetween the teeth and try to move and work them so the...
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    New here, and I got an idea!

    I can't believe I've done it... keep positive, you could have a few chaps on stand by to jump in if they are needed, as a start up team, not for the long haul, maybe working in shfts for a cheap vacation. you could rotate 6 people, two at a time for 2 to 6 months. can you get email connection...
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    warm ideas for sleeping in winter.

    at a push a garbage bag stuffed with straw would make a good insulator to sleep upon in your bag.
  14. boucaneer

    places to stash your gear?

    i somtimes hide it in a church graveyard, over here those places are dead. i put my rucksack in a garbage bag and stow it somwhere secret. i even say a little pray over it to have it protected, i just go with my instincts realy. only realy use quiet church yards realy.
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    Multi-use items

    it's my casio tidal watch, it tells me how high the tide is, which way the tide is going if i cant see it, 4 different time alarms and a snooze alarm, it tells the time in digital and by the hands so can be used as a compass as well, moon chart for telling when it will be a new moon...
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    What's your favorite piece of gear?

    yeah those p38 can openers are neat. i lost a p51 years back and all i can find are the rubbish highlander ones that rattle and bend. currantly my favourate item is my french naval gortex foul weather jacket worn over a down filled puffer jacket, realy warm and waterproof. we have had ten days...
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    Tent or tarp?

    i use a gortex british army bivi bag and a warm sleeping bag (two or three if realy cold.) and a thermorest compact air mattress (good for sleeping on rocky ground and great for air insulation.) and roll it all up in one into a bed roll with a couple of straps. slips straight into my rucksack...
  18. boucaneer

    hello from boating squatter from london.

    thanks for the welcome, apples and wildboy860. i think i am gonna have a good time on this website. thanks and cheers.
  19. boucaneer

    hello from boating squatter from london.

    hello there, great to see a forum for squatters. we only have one in england that is squatters org and it is a bit too bissness like, and not enough chat. i used to roll with the new age travlers back in 92/93 traveling in a convoy around the uk with a crew of punks and hippies, it was a...