![]() My apologies in advance for the limited information in the descriptions – I neglected this instructable for several years in the Drafts folder, so my memory is not terribly specific! A good use for this instructable is as an overall guide for the pieces and order of the process. You will need to supplement with more specific information in order to do this yourself. But the benefit to my slow post is that I can verify the foundation is sound! We have now (over the course of a few years) built a very functional and rather beautiful house on top, just as imagined. Very difficult! Forgot to mention the "remote" part in the body of the instructable. We shop for hardware at the Home Depot in Juneau, have to get some kind of truck or special shipping onto an 8-hour ferry that goes once a month to a nearby town, have to get it off the ferry, carry each piece of plywood/etc. down to the beach, load it onto a small aluminum skiff, take it across an ocean bay, tie up by our place, unload splashily in our rubber boots over the edge of the boat (we don't have a dock, and it's a very long beach– so ideally, we do it at high tide to shorten the distance, which also means checking that the boat's not grounded every 5 minutes). Our neighbor down the beach has a sawmill (lucky for us!), so a lot of the wood from this cabin is from downed large trees on our property. We log the wood, drag the tree trunks down to the beach with his borrowed machinery, wait for high tide, float it over behind his boat, he mills it for us, we carry it back down the beach by hand.
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