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Wood-Fired Ocean Hot Tub

Step 6Explain Yourself to the Authorities

Explain Yourself to the Authorities
As you can imagine, our steampunk-sleigh-electric-generator-inflatable-hot-tub contraption attracted some attention. It wasn't long before a ranger cautiously approached to ask us what the hell we were up to.

Brett was ready for him, though, armed with a stack of printouts on beach usage regulations and email correspondence with various bureaucrats discussing said regulations. He unleashed a torrent of minutiae at the ranger, somehow still maintaining total politeness.

The ranger, bewildered, simply said, "Look, I just want to know that you're not going to try to use that inflatable thing as a raft."

"Ah," we said, "No."

He was satisfied with that, so our hottubbing was on!

We didn't take a picture of the alarmed ranger, for obvious reasons. The photo below is by Flickr user psychofish (Some Rights Reserved).
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4 comments
Jul 24, 2011. 2:11 PMfoxie trix says:
nice car :D
Nov 3, 2010. 12:56 PMgerjanw says:
Remembers me when we build a Hot tub in the woods and someone called the police, it was or own wood so no problem.
http://zomerkamp.110mb.com/fotos/Jacuzzi/target65.html

We used 6000 liters water, delivered by the local fire department and heated up with old radiators.
http://zomerkamp.110mb.com/fotos/Jacuzzi/
Sep 11, 2008. 6:58 AMlou says:
hey this is psychofish from flickr. nice use of the photo :)
Sep 26, 2008. 12:45 PMchunkymuggen says:
rub-a-dub-dub, six (WTF?!) guys crammed in a wee tub. why ain't there any WOMEN in the tub. like one guy, ten women. preferably naked. and pretty. (jk, six guys is okay too, if you're into that kind of thing)

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