The Rafts
alice – alternately named for two crew members’ grandmothers and the little girl that went down the rabbit hole, alice is half city and half mangrove swamp, a dream of cities that are not designed and built, but who’s mutations grow and twist up out of places where the water meets the land. 23′ long, 22′ beam. mast height 22′. wooden foam-filled pontoon hulls.
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maria – sometimes referred to as the grandson of town hall, for the deep inspiration she takes from the son of town hall, on whose hand-made wreckage the floating neutrinos crossed the atlantic ocean. 28′ x 12′, mast height 18′, wooden foam-filled pontoon hulls with barrels at bow and stern.
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ol’ hickory – named after a great great grandpa, and still to be built, she looks to varanasi for it’s hundreds of steps that rise up out of the ganges, and to venice, the original dream of a city born out of the sea.
