I don't even like the water that much but this still looks like something I could end up doing. Right now I'm planning to live in a van since I want to be mobile.
I don't even like the water that much but this still looks like something I could end up doing. Right now I'm planning to live in a van since I want to be mobile.
put the van on a boat... attach and detach wheels to the boat when you need them
when it's in the water and the van in on it...it's a boat (powered by the van..treadmill?)
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when it's on land the van pulls it..
go where you want to go.
I've done thought this through, long ago. Use gears whenever possible, as belts lose ~20% of the power (slippage). It's easy enough to make a special rim which you put on the rig when powering the marine drive, with a nice toothed gear welded to it.
Gears do lose power, but a lot less.
Also, in the Gulf, you'd face real weather, so consider robust V hull (the Steem Dreem has a nice hull), and making the van of fiberglass or stainless. At the least, superlative maintenance and ongoing rust proofing will be requisite.
Ordinary steel and iron last but a year or two before starting to flake away, without constant greasing and painting, in contact with salt water. Zinc. Think Zinc, as sacrificial zinc plates preserve steel by attracting the ions that cause rust.
Wow. Never would've thought of that. A Ban or a Voat