SV Seeker “The boat the internet built" In Tulsa

[SlugSlinger]

Very cool if you like the water.

74-Foot Boat Moved From Tulsa Man’s Yard To Port Of Catoosa​

TULSA, Oklahoma - After a decade of work in his front yard, a Tulsa man’s new boat is finished and headed to the water.
Osage SkyNews 6 pilot Dustin Stone shows how it was quite the sight trying to move it from north of Tulsa to the Port of Catoosa.

After working on this boat for 10 years, Doug Jackson is finally taking his 74-foot sailing vessel to the Port of Catoosa.

As if in a parade, the 40-ton sailboat slowly made its way through the streets Thursday accompanied by some of Tulsa's most popular art cars.

Jackson calls this project “The boat the internet built,” because it was partly paid for by a YouTube channel where he kept viewers updated on the progress with about 800 videos. Jackson also said hundreds of volunteers from all over the world helped him build the boat.

SV Seeker will be put in the water next week and will eventually make its way to the Gulf of Mexico.

https://www.youtube.com/c/SVSeeker

 

[Aries]

I used to work with Doug Jackson.

 

[Shoot Summ]

Around 36' and Yale a guy had some sort of large old wooden boat in his front yard for many years, it was moved at one point, but it wasn't because it was finished...

 

[SlugSlinger]

 

[jeepjackazz]

I used to work with Doug Jackson.

he as bad in person as his comment section on his now removed you tube channel?

 

[Aries]

he as bad in person as his comment section on his now removed you tube channel?

Never saw the comments, so not sure how to answer that. He was a decent guy for the most part and I got along with him just fine. But he was definitely a little eccentric, and could be opinionated and cranky if he wasn't happy about something. But he's not a bad guy. Now that I think about it, there's about a half dozen members here on OSA, he could be one of them.

But if I saw the comments, I probably wouldn't be very surprised. He could be pretty blunt.

 

[jeepjackazz]

Never saw the comments, so not sure how to answer that. He was a decent guy for the most part and I got along with him just fine. But he was definitely a little eccentric, and could be opinionated and cranky if he wasn't happy about something. But he's not a bad guy. Now that I think about it, there's about a half dozen members here on OSA, he could be one of them.

But if I saw the comments, I probably wouldn't be very surprised. He could be pretty blunt.

If any of yall are reddit fans, the sv seeker free group (the one not run by Doug) is a cheap source of entertainment.

I think he would fit in here just fine, intermittent outburst, opinions, poop cutting knives on boats, drama and all, lol

 

[Waltercat]

Many people are not aware that one can navigate to the ocean from Oklahoma. Fun fact.

 

[Perplexed]

Many people are not aware that one can navigate to the ocean from Oklahoma. Fun fact.

A person I went to graduate school with did just that in a jon boat, tracking radio-tagged stripers from Keystone Lake to the Gulf. He took two weeks to do that with an assistant.

 

[dennishoddy]

Many people are not aware that one can navigate to the ocean from Oklahoma. Fun fact.

At least one couple from Broken Arrow took a year to leave Catoosa to make the loop through the Great Lakes back to The Tulsa area.