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S.S. Encinitas and S.S. Moonlight, designated by the National Register of Historic Places as the Encinitas Boathouses, are two houses made to look like a boat in Encinitas, California. Despite their appearance, they have never been to sea and are purely novelty architecture. The dwellings were added to the register on October 21, 2019.
Nightcaps is a 1,200 square-foot modern cottage located on Scenic Road in the coastal town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Designed by renowned architect David Allen Smith and built in 1995, Nightcaps is a beautiful example of contemporary architecture that perfectly blends into the surrounding natural landscape.
The design has sleeping accommodation for two people, with two 78 in (200 cm) bunks in the cabin bow. The cabin has 45 in (110 cm) of headroom and the companionway hatch folds into a small table. A cockpit tent is a common owner addition. [4] [9] The design has undergone continuous improvement over its production run. [7]
In the mid 1980s Hans Christian Yachts commissioned the designing of a new series of boats based on a more modern hull design with the goal of the "ultimate cruising sailboat." The end result was the Christina series with the 52 and 48 models designed by Doug Peterson [1] and Scott Sprague designing 40 and 43 [2] versions. Construction was done ...
Wright's drawings called for the four buildings to be arranged in a pinwheel layout around the main house. [46] The main house's massing was to resemble a mesa. [47] [48] There would have been an artificial stream flowing between and through the buildings, [49] similarly to Wright's later design for Fallingwater in Pennsylvania. [50] [51]
The division serves all types of recreational boaters statewide. California has about 2.6 million recreational boats and over 4 million recreational boaters. Recreational boating annually contributes several billion dollars to the state’s economy. The current Deputy Director of California Division of Boating and Waterways is Ms. Lynn Sadler.
Cal Yachts (also known as Jensen Marine and Cal Boats) was a manufacturer of performance oriented fiberglass sailboats from the 1960s to the 1980s. The Costa Mesa , California , headquartered company was founded in 1957, among the earliest of all-fiberglass, mass-production sailboat builders.
Wright used sledgehammers and aluminum molds to imprint elaborate Maya-inspired patterns into the blocks. [9] The four Southern California textile-block houses represented Wright's earliest uses of the exotic, monumental Maya forms. [4] Storer House is the only one of Wright's textile-block houses to use multiple block patterns—four in all.