2009
Over two weeks in April 2009, I built a 13-foot concrete boat on a beach near Los Angeles, following the sand-based process described in the 1971 edition of The Whole Earth Catalog and basing the form on the Guppy 13, produced in the early 1970s by Melen Marine in Chatsworth, California — the boat Bas Jan Ader used in 1975 for his final work, In Search of the Miraculous. Ferrocement (beach sand, white Portland cement, and steel), 13 × 6 × 5.5 ft.
We launched my boat on April 19 at the Marina Del Rey Municipal Boat Launch. It returned safely to port after a day cruising the marina.
I produced a publication documenting the project in the Summer of 2009.
A pdf version is available below and in the library section.