barge

Looking for a full Barge design, with a very limited budget .. if you can help ...

Hello everyone, I am a 5th year Architecture student and would like to ask for help in designing the concrete basin/barge foundation for my floating home design that would have a maximum of 2 floors, and hopefully use the concrete basin as a basement if possible. Based on my research from the...

So I'm still up at the Broughton Archipelago building houses, and the client has a moderate sized concrete barge with a two story steel buildin on it that has housed the fish food stores. They want me to convert it to a small accommodations barge. Interior framing, windows, doors, heat, ac, all...

So I am thinking about a pontoon/barge to transport building materials like wood and concrete to an island. It won't be used in heavy seas, if it's too windy it won't be used. Distance from shore is 8km, in an archipelago. I'm thinking about a couple pontoons about 500mm in diameter, square...

When it comes to boats/barges that are mainly stationary on the inland waterways why isn’t ferrocement a popular option? Sure it may have condensation issues like Steel & GRP, but it doesn't deteriorate like a steel hull, or flammable like GRP, or rot like wood. Sure it may be heavier and take a...

Considering how things are going with work, and what we are paying for delivery, there's a real business case to be made for a small landing craft barge. SOR Carry a full sized, fully loaded pickup, safely over moderate seas. Locale is east Coast of Vancouver island. Land on a beach, and...

I am a welder and pile driver by trade. I recently started buying and refurbishing barges patching sand blasting painting etc to bring them back to life then I resell them. Most of the barges are small 10-14’ wide by 30-40’ long and 3-4’ deep. I would like to start building barges on my own...

Hello all, My wife and I are looking for a remote lifestyle change. Basically looking for a place on the West Coast of British Columbia that is boat or remote access location. For part time work, I would like to bring my excavator (12,000 pounds) and have a means to move it; plus a little...

Hi All, Can anyone advise how to do the powering calculation of a pusher tug. Pusher tug pushes -4 barges,each of 350 T capacity. Regards Adarsh

So I have been asked several times by friends and fellow boaters to assist with their mooring maintenance and/or seasonal removal. This season alone I did 22 mooring wintersticks not including my own 3. The heaviest being a 4,000lb block that I actually dove on and swapped out chain. Many of the...

Hello guys, I would like to know how to calculate this stiffener, I have read the ABS BARGE 2018, and just mention that it will be strong. Please, help me with this issue.

Hi, I'm planning a boat on request, a small challenge, but I would like to avoid trivial mistakes, but I'm not expert at all. Below are the preliminary plans of the hull, from my point of view it seems to be fine, but I repeat I have no experience, as you can see the bottom is slightly curved...

15M x 4M barge to carry containers from Ship to Shore, Built By www.weldnz.com in NZ 2006, Is now in operation in Niue Island in pacific islands, it is double skin 6mm plate with 8mm bottom, was welded together with Mig welding the RIlon 350A with push pull torchs, it will take 1 x 20ft...

steel, will be build for french channels cruising

Branson Boats Steel kit of a Dutch Luxemotor. Length 50 or 57ft.