Nuevo Yatismo is DIY solar water desalination, mulch based heads (marine composting toilet), and such. The new seafarer ditches the fossil fueled auxiliary engine. Solar electric propulsion is handier around the harbor and boosts sailing speed renewably.

Coordinate based remote geography chat rooms (geochat), a global "CB", if you need human contact in remotest corner. One might monitor a known distant place and assist visitors. desalination. Given the new safety, boats sail on skilled consensus, with rotating responsibilities rather than a Capt. Bligh system..

Shanty Boating thrived on the Mississippi of young Twain. As winter looms up north you build a cabin on a raft or barge and fish, forage, and poach all the way south to New Orleans, sell the boat for firewood to buy a train ticket back north in the spring. Repeat. The Floating Neutrinos ( <= search term) represent the ultimate modern validation of the concept.

Earth service performed, puppetismo with verse and music- trawling for trash, biorestoration, sustainable aquaculture.

Polyphibious travel- bummed yachts land touring bikes to foray deep inland. Paragliders packed on bikes and ocean kayaks allow the ultimate- a geophysical powered personal aircraft soaring mountains and . Trash rafts on major rivers and floods could return bikers to sea. Metamorphic Shanty-boating where a small raft grows and evolves as it floats along. Hangliders are yachtable and might even serve as a sailing rig for exotic sailing canoes.

A well developed open cooperative structure allows the multitudes to pass thru a robust marine network. The world's water festivals, its old seagoing cultures, re-enacters, divers, surfers, and dreamers. Seasonal migration provides a strong common motive and direction for a heterogeneous fleet. Wi-fi based collision avoidance could keep a loose fleet clear of itself. Ocean survivalism has matured. Sailors are tethered and jacketed, crews drill, ocean kayaks go anywhere, survival suits make one a polar bear, gadgets exist for every extremity.

Tiny Ships as Floating Gardens- The Dutch tried gardens on sailing ships. High seas too often swept them away, while mere salt spray and limited fresh water blighted plants. Floating gardens work well in protected waters. The legendary floating gardens of the native amerika trully existed- a brush raft with grass and muck floating nursery would be grounded in shallow water and piled up to become a chinampa, (raised field). Natural floating islands broke away from peat bogs further north, and it was possible to plant crops on these "quaking" soil.   Modern forecasting and good engineering will make blue-water gardens worthwhile. Plant boats have always worked; they've served as seed transport and plant nurseries. How sweet to have deck container herb gardening to enliven traditional boat rations. A garden yacht could irrigate by shuttle between fresh water estuaries (sol-elec. pump) and the salty small tide lagunas and by rain collection and solar distillation from greenhouse condensate, transpiration thus recycled. A saline shallow raised field (chinampa) system might be supported by a water ferry to add to rain watering.

The ram-air parachute, traction kite or kitesail, and paraglider are variations of a revolutionary soft wing technology. Derated parachutes and gliders are salvagable as traction kitesails. Let us embrace every exotic feature for appraisal in our flotillas, such as wave piercing pontoons, automated solid wing-sails, kite keels, and so on.

Bike Gyroboat- A nomad could temporarily convert a bike drive train into the heart of a wind turbine and direct this power to an underwater propeller, in theory to achieve high sailing efficiency. Similarly bike parts can be adapted to make permanent wind turbines of high quality for electric generation. Bike hardware could also serve multi-winching, bilge pumping, etc. Tip- wear bike helmet on deck in heavy seas.

Personal watercraft/tenders- Body Sailing tested on Mexico winter migration.

On both sides of Rio Grande delta are hundreds of miles of calm shallow water behind barrier islands (laguna madres) with reliable seasonal wind patterns favorable to winter migration.  Laguna Madre Proa ( last concept sketch)- windward "flying" ama with lee sponson may reasonably sport longitudinal asymmetry (unlike classic ocean types), reducing form drag a bit and operational complexity greatly, as she will be on the same tack; waiting, then going south on norwesters and north on so'easters. The boat will sail ok for local taxiing, in light or moderate air with small sails, ama a-hull to the "wrong" side, thus tacking rather than shunting, rudder and rigging.

Town Lake City is edoishi@yahoo.com 's concept for a floating social centre on a vast silting lagoon for which dredging funds are not foreseen. A raised field chinampa style garden would tap this fertile silt for large yields- roughly 10 tons per acre a year.

Scuba makes us a fish, a humanized submarine. The gear is way-heavy to bike tour, appropriate that diving is best done from sea level. A no-decompression limit of ~six meters is a great playground of simple balloon habitats and bike subs

Underwater Ballooning- a captured air bubble, ballasted, drifting over coral reefs, gently rocking below storm tossed wave, an umbilical snorkel/solar pump renewing air. Such techne would extend scuba times and facilitate decompression from deeper dives, in effect replacing high compression tanks with a low pressure bubbler. Regenerative ventilation where rising waste air helps pump down fresh air.

SCRAPS

Polysyrene Recapture at ocean gyres by flotation separation from higher density live biomass such as sargassum, fish eggs, etc. Salvaged beads would be somehow consolidated or bagged and form artificial islands

Robo-legged hydrofoils overtaking large waves by compliant skating.

The sea is "unfixed". Floating places move freely in two dimensions. Restless fluidity that separates and unites.

Transient open micro-collectives like festivals. Specialized tiny ships- the sailmaker/rigger, the mechanic, the hauler,

Migration patterns- fast boats leave earlier, arrive sooner, and sail dogleg routes while slower boats make straight long passages. Longitudinal braided migration paths transfer goods and people latitudinally, downslope to the east in our region.

We need vehicle library networks suitable for multi-mode migrations. Our bike libraries are proven successes, now lets build boat and aircraft pools.

Transformer Nomadics- multi modal migration such as salvage yacht, to bike, to paraglider, to shantyboat, etc..