A house on wheels?

[charlieaarons]

I agree completely. You have to live in the thing. I met some Germans this AM at my Unimog dealer who have been on the road for 18 years in Thomas Ritter's first Unicat, on a 1550L chassis. They have nice trick steel shutters for the outside of the windows for shipping, and it's easy to design a box with deadbolt door locks and with a passthru closeoff plate that locks from the inside of the box.

Charlie

[Rhode Trip]

"regardless of the dimensions of an ISO can, it looks like the weight limitations could be the deciding factor. Possible these weights are in kilograms rather than pounds. Even then it could be close."
Quote:
Shipping Container Sizes
Dimension Length Width Height empty (tare) weight
External 20' 8' 8' 6" 4000-5300 pounds
Internal 19' 4.5" 7' 8.6" 7' 10" door 7'8" x 7'5"

External 40' 8' 8' 6" 6000-8800 pounds
Internal 39' 5.5" 7' 8.6" 7' 10" door 7'8" x 7'5"

External 40' Hicube 8' 9' 6" 8500-9200 pounds
Internal 39' 5" 7' 8.6" 8' 10" door 7'8" x 8'5"
(tare) weight refers to the weight of the container itself.

[hinoranger]

I REALLY feel that for people to limit their land yacht's design just for the "convienience" of putting it in an ISO can is a shame. Sort of like cutting your nose off is spite of your face.

If designing a truck to fit inside a shipping container is misguided, how silly is this?

http://containeryachts.com/

[Joaquin Suave]

If designing a truck to fit inside a shipping container is misguided, how silly is this?

http://containeryachts.com/

Wow! that is totally COOL!

I really dig the concept! I grew up in a So Cal harbor town and have been a guest on yatchs my whole life. My few "blue water" experiences included "maydaying" off of Neihau island in 20 ft seas, but quite frankly the ocean...

Scares the SH*T out of me!

So I don't follow boat design. I will bet money though!

My money sayz that the boating forams can find 5 things wrong with the boat in the container concept for every one thing we land yachters find wrong with stuffing a truck in a container.

How does the saying go? Beamy is better.

I guess the same can be said about large / tall / heavy land vehicles.

[jayshapiro]

DESIGNING FOR CONTAINERS:

I agreee that designing for the sake of fitting within the container is far to limiting. Especially when there are so many RoRo's available now, and theoretically anyone doing this kind of trip probably won't mind waiting the extra couple of weeks, or driving the extra 1,000 miles to get to a RoRo that works for them.

SECURITY:

Almost every story I've heard of someone shipping their vehicle involves something going missing. I like the cookies & milk idea, but may not be 100% fool-proof.

A great idea I read on another page was to buy a couple of steel trunks (NACK boxes) and put them on the floor inside the camper. Put all your tools / electronics / etc inside them, and bolt the two boxes together internally. Then metal strap & lock them. Again, not 100% fool-proof, and a bit of a pain-in-the-*** to do, but even more of a pain-in-the-*** for someone to try to break into.

Realistically, most of us don't ship our vehicles SO often, that the inconvenience of this would be TOO bad.

Then you can give away the boxes on the other side. Maybe you can find a very appreciative customs officer!

Cheers,
Jay.