Man building house boat that's 3,200 square feet
He is following his dream!
(CBS) - Ever wish you could sail away and leave all your troubles behind? That's exactly what one man plans on doing after he finishes building his 3,200 foot catamaran.
There are some who think James Lane has got to have a screw loose -and he might. He's using about 800 pounds of them to hold together five tons of wood.
"The guy's nuts!"
It's not an uncommon response when people see what he's building. The catamaran comes in at 3,200 square feet- likely bigger than many people's house.
"Building a boat to sail away," said Lane, "that's what I call freedom."
With his 26-year-old son, mother, girlfriend, two other friends and his dogs, he plans to sail to the South seas and never come back.
"There are 30,000 islands in the South Pacific and they are all tropical paradises." he said. "Why not?"
He's a master craftsman, but has never built a boat before. A $10,000 insurance settlement started the funding for what he hopes will be a $30,000 job.
"It's awful big..."
They follow the progress from nearby Andy's supermarket.
"The customers, you know, a lot of time talk about the weather, or about the bad news going on." said Andy's employee Patrick Crowley. "This is something different, watching this project grow right from the ground up."
"That's the most unseaworthy thing I've seen since they tried boats with cement. There's no way that's gonna hold together." said Alan Dragge.
Lane says he's studied the construction of 10,000 boats and is confident about building his own.
"Wouldn't you do it if you could? No? Maybe?
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