Lolcow Doug Jackson / SV Seeker - Boomer hubris personified, an incompetent lunatic's dreams slowly crumbling to dust because of his own poor decisions.

[Eydallur]

There just isn't that much about what he does to hold a running conversation, especially this late in the project.

It'll ultimately be decided by whether or not he goes multi shipping lane drifting and clogs up the Mississippi or gets in a brawl with the harbormaster, following the example set by the flyin hawaiian.

 

[OctopodaEnjoyer]

It'll ultimately be decided by whether or not he goes multi shipping lane drifting and clogs up the Mississippi or gets in a brawl with the harbormaster, following the example set by the flyin hawaiian.

I fully believe that either of these are likely outcomes. Maybe even both.

A lot of his commenters are encouraging him to just show up at night and dump it into the river without permission, which would probably be the most comical possible way he could shut down the port.

 

[Eydallur]

If my understanding is correct Doug is playing a very high stakes game of chicken with the port (who I frankly doubt are aware of this nutjob's schemes) by selling his house and becoming what is in essence a homeless squatter. I don't know if he plans on becoming such a nuisance to them they'll agree to put him in the water just to get rid of the bothersome boomer or if he's banking on winning sympathy from fans who will either influence the port to cut him a deal or funnel money to him until he's able to put up a bond but if the port director is a hardass about not risking the business he gets from normal paying customers then Doug will either have to become the pity project of an angel trucker willing to haul his ass the 500 miles between him and the gulf by road or he'll have to sell the boat for scrap and own up to his failure, if he doesn't choose to engage in some even dumber conflict.

 

[KifflomKween]

This guy is midlife crisis personified. Good thread op.

 

[Evan_Wynn_D]

Lmao I can't believe this guy actually has the word seethe in his name. I wonder if he's aware of this and what that says about his maturity.

 

[Complete Reprobate]

This should be another attraction on Ye Olde Route 66.

COME AND SEE THE 75 FOOT PRARIE YACHT! EXIT 33, FREE PARKING! FUNNEL CAKES! etc.

Not all cows need a thread that goes a million miles an hour. Let's get this thread out of PG, and let it marinate. Ol' Dougie will provide the goods!

 

[Flim Flam]

Does he even know how to swim?

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

Holly buggering hell a Aqua cow!

I'm impressed by his dedication, but honestly this thing is a death trap I'm not a marine engineer by any stretch of the imagination but during lockdown I really got into a book series that involved a lot of talk about ship design and I bought and read a few books just to add to the immersion and understand a part of the story better and even after a very admittedly very surface level reading of these books I can honestly just look at it and see that this thing will break apart in anything other than a dead flat calm let alone should the hull be put under any kind of stress.

The hull is a metal construction by someone who can weld but after a look at this abomination and specially the bilge keel (how did he actually calculate the size and position of it?). I'm sure that this thing will roll extremely heavy in even light seas (Beaufort scale up to 5) and it might even capsize in anything higher than Beafourt scale 6.
Look at he position of the bilge keel, that makes no sense at all, in this positon on a sea going vessel that's not going high speeds it's fucking worthless. I don't even start about the danger of runing a ground in shallow waters with that "thing".

 

[KifflomKween]

The hull is a metal construction by someone who can weld but after a look at this abomination and specially the bilge keel (how did he actually calculate the size and position of it?). I'm sure that this thing will roll extremely heavy in even light seas (Beaufort scale up to 5) and it might even capsize in anything higher than Beafourt scale 6.
Look at he position of the bilge keel, that makes no sense at all, in this positon on a sea going vessel that's not going high speeds it's fucking worthless. I don't even start about the danger of runing a ground in shallow waters with that "thing".
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Bold of you to assume this thing will ever be in the water.

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

Bold of you to assume this thing will ever be in the water.

I know that most likely that horror boat never gets wet but regarding contructional topics in aviation, naval or building/infrastructure construction, specially when amateurs are involved, always expect the worst and be pleasantly surpised when it doesn't happen.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

The hull is a metal construction by someone who can weld

A Grinder and paint, makes me the welder I aint. I suspect that there is a lot of that going on there.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

A Grinder and paint, makes me the welder I aint. I suspect that there is a lot of that going on there.

There's an ancient saying: If you can't weld good, weld a lot.

Just getting my land-based projects insured and safety'd is a neverending nightmare. And if I've done something wrong I can normally tow it somewhere else. I can't imagine getting something like this boat to pass an inspection, and then having to deal with the fallout of rejection. Of course, anyone rational wouldn't have let it get this far without trying to accomplish a lot of research and reaching out for advice.

I hope this goober joins the farms

 

[Un Platano]

My favorite example of Doug's love of useless sharp objects all over his boat is this piece of work right here:

This is what his comment in the OP about being "too scared to be around steel" is referring to. Someone's gonna split their head open on the Seeker before they've even had a chance to get out of bed. Doug is so deluded that he can't see a single issue in this or any other picture of the Seeker. Both the well-meaning fans and the haters have tried to point this out to him and they invariably end up brushed off as "Safety Nancy"s, or just plain cowards.

 

[OctopodaEnjoyer]

My favorite example of Doug's love of useless sharp objects all over his boat is this piece of work right here:
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This is what his comment in the OP about being "too scared to be around steel" is referring to.

That's a good one: my personal favorite is the working sink in the workshop (?) [engine room] that is just a perfect cube-shaped aluminum box without any sort of rounding on the corner, that is pointed into the walkway, in a manner that longitudinal rolling will send you stumbling into it.

There are many elements of this project that I do find admirable, but shit like this is just ridiculous.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I can't believe his wife left him. Clearly this is the boat design that will save mankind in the apocalypse.

 

[Least Concern]

I can't believe his wife left him. Clearly this is the boat design that will save mankind in the apocalypse.

So he's Noah, but his wife was Lot's wife?

 

[Zeke Can't Sleep]

this shit is the Nautical Groverhaus.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

So he's Noah, but his wife was Lot's wife?

More like Bruce. Or whatever that character name was in the 90's or 2000's movie where a guy has to build a boat.

Ah! It was Evan.

 

[cuddle striker]

Actually seeing him in the monstrosity really brought it all home. I don't know what half the shit in this thread means; the words are nonsense but; what a baffling disaster it is. Thank you for bringing my attention to this freakshow.

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

this shit is the Nautical Groverhaus.

Wasn't the guy who build that "architectural landmark" actually a member of Something Awful?