Panama Floating Homes

By Alan de la Hunt

Building an eco friendly off the grid floating home after being shipwreck on tropical islands. The difficulties and process of the project along with photographs. Successes and failures of having to built off grid in the jungle on a tropical island.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alan de la Hunt
• Release date: Apr 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201824556

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Living off the grid

When thinking about living off the grid, a lot of people still get cold sweats. Just the thought of buying a property, building a house, collecting water from a nearby river or digging a well, generating their own power systems, usually with solar panels and/or wind generators, growing their own food, etc, is enough to put off most people who still rely heavily on electricity and easy access to food via shops or supermarkets.

Still, living off the grid is gaining interest now a days thanks to its benefits such as general wellbeing, letting a minimum imprint in the environment or reducing the cost of living in general.

The best thing about the floating home is that it provides all the advantages of living off the grid in the sense of wellbeing, freedom, autonomy, minimal environmental damage, since they are 100% eco-friendly, and dramatically reduces the cost of living, and one can also easily access local markets to provide for food or any other thing needed.

There is also no need to incur in the expenses of buying a property or paperwork and permits involve in building a house.

Having been a sailor for most of my life, I am used to live a simple life off the grid and out of my comfort zone since I keep moving around the world with my boat and I try to anchor as much as possible instead of going into marinas. I am used to repair and recycle and to produce a minimum waste. I am in a perpetual interaction with