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Funding Unsuccessful This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on July 16, 2012.
Funding period
Jun 27, 2012 -
Jul 16, 2012
- First created · 10 backed
- John Rinaldi 3896 friends
- Website: chickenjohn.com
Pledge $10 or more
97 backers
We'll mail you a postcard from the river with a photo by Tod Seelie of the trip as it is happening...
Estimated delivery: Aug 2012Pledge $23 or more
1 backer All gone!
Wrench of Ubiquity. It turns all sizes, all directions, forever.
Estimated delivery: Nov 2012Pledge $25 or more
15 backers
A federal offense
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $25 or more
39 backers
Thing we found on the ground, over there.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $45 or more
5 backers
Guitar lesson from Jimmy!
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $45 or more
1 backer All gone!
Oil change from the House of Brakes! So practical! Your dad would be proud.
Estimated delivery: Aug 2012Pledge $45 or more
1 backer All gone!
Replica of the Inconvenient in a bottle.
Estimated delivery: Nov 2012Pledge $50 or more
1 backer All gone!
Bar Tab at Dear Mom
Estimated delivery: Aug 2012Pledge $50 or more
1 backer All gone!
Bar Tab at the Blind Cat
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $50 or more
1 backer All gone!
Bar tab at Thieves' Tavern
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $50 or more
1 backer All gone!
Bar Tab at Whiskey Thieves
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $50 or more
1 backer All gone!
Bar Tab at the Unresolved Love Life of Evelyn Lee
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $50 or more
7 backers
Message in a bottle. You email it, we print it out, decorate it and shove it in a bottle on the river. You might get a new penpal, or you might get a fine.
Estimated delivery: Aug 2012Pledge $55 or more
4 backers
Chicken John on your outgoing voicemail message.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $85 or more
10 backers
Three-month coffee beans subscription from Ritual Roasters.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $85 or more
9 backers
Crew member Jason Webley will call you up and sing a sea shanty, from the boat, backed by the Inconvenient Choir, either live or to your voicemail to be recorded forever.
Estimated delivery: Aug 2012Pledge $99 or more
5 backers All gone!
Bigfoot singing telegram! Bay Area. Redeemable for a year, so set up a special birthday or anniversary for someone now.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $100 or more
1 backer All gone!
$100 of goods from Held Over - a vintage clothing store.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $100 or more
0 backers Limited (1 of 1 left)
Junkyard shopping spree. Whatever you can fit in a basket in fifteen minutes. All auto.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $100 or more
1 backer All gone!
$100 off a pair of socks at 5 & Diamond. Or off whatever you want there.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $100 or more
1 backer All gone!
$100 of handmade organic body care products from By Nieves, declared SF Weekly's Best Local Skincare Line.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $150 or more
1 backer All gone!
$150 of fancy plant nursery goods from Flora Grubb.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $150 or more
1 backer All gone!
Handyman Service by a crew member: hang a shelf, fix a door, loft a bed. Two to three hours of work.
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $150 or more
1 backer Limited (2 of 3 left)
Plumber visit! Good for one minor act of plumbicity, or $$ off on a serious problem. From a real plumber.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $165 or more
2 backers
Framed photo of boats by renowned photographer Tod Seelie.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $250 or more
2 backers Limited (8 of 10 left)
Copy of Chicken's book, the Book of the Is: Fail to Win, with signed, editioned cover art by Swoon, and a loving grateful inscription thanking you for your generous help.
Estimated delivery: Nov 2012Pledge $300 or more
2 backers All gone!
Sunset Cruise around Treasure Island on the Regardless, a handmade steel dory boat, with its maker & captain Paul the Plumber. Bring up to three people plus you.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $300 or more
1 backer
We will apply your sticker under every bridge we cross, and text you some photos. Awesome, right?
Estimated delivery: Aug 2012Pledge $350 or more
0 backers Limited (1 of 1 left)
Half-off! You get $700 worth of novelty vomit from Chicken's (successful) protest against food carts in Dolores Park. The price of novelty vomit has gone up since he cornered the market and bought it all. Not kidding.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $500 or more
0 backers Limited (1 of 1 left)
A year of internet service from Monkeybrains.net.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $700 or more
1 backer All gone!
Overnight camping adventure trip on the Flying Shingle: a homemade illegal five-horsepower train that rides the abandoned rails. The most fun thing you will ever do. When busted by the train police, they were laughing too hard to arrest anybody. You may see bears. You may have to help carry the train depending on the rail conditions.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $800 or more
1 backer Limited (2 of 3 left)
Burning Man ticket. Yeah, you heard us.
Estimated delivery: Aug 2012Pledge $1,200 or more
1 backer All gone!
Private dinner party for up to fifteen guests at the Chez Poulet. Eight courses, entertainment included. Chicken's cooking.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $5,000 or more
0 backers Limited (1 of 1 left)
Design a tattoo for Chicken! Placement is up to him. Max size three by four inches. Just right for a Grateful Dead bear? Now is your chance to mark Chicken for life.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $10,000 or more
0 backers Limited (1 of 1 left)
Brian Goggin will paint your fucking house.
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
Creator Eva Marie on July 16, 2012
Damn...
So I still have $30 to burn....
Creator M K Chipko on July 16, 2012
I hope you make it! If you do, please plan to stop at Alton Indiana! We live on the bluffs above town. We came here after building a boat in a friend's back yard and sailing from Elnora Indiana to Key West back in the mid '80's. We liked this place best of all. Good luck. It's a great trip!
Creator Florentine Schmidtmann on July 16, 2012
I would give you guys 10K if I had the money. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Creator Aaron Merriam on July 15, 2012
I love the project and was happy to donate. I however was not super thrilled to scroll down far enough to see your $800 burning man tickets for sale. I'd like to see this reward replaced with something that doesn't promote the sale of tickets for above face value.
Creator Sally Lansdale on July 15, 2012
I'm so happy to donate a little to your project. It's positive, uplifting, and ecologically sound. I'm just an old hippe (age 60). Glad to be on the receiving end of this fantastical vicarious thrill.
Creator Eddie ReJam on July 12, 2012
I am rooting so hard for you folks to get backed!!! You fill my heart with wonder!
Creator Marjorie on July 10, 2012
So, As an overseas backer, if I pick the 'federal offence' reward level, do I have to add extra for deportation? Or is that included?
Creator Bradyn on July 10, 2012
I really hope I'll be able to come out to one of your stops if this happens. I can't tell you guys how much you inspire me. This is the most amazing thing I've ever heard of. Mary Beth said it perfectly, fair winds you crazy pirates.
Creator nieves Rathbun on July 3, 2012
I love that this is happening!
Creator Massie Lawson on July 3, 2012
Fuck yeah!
Creator Tambaloneus on June 28, 2012
Are you serious about painting someone's house? Because 10k for that is a pretty good deal, considering I was quoted 12k for mine. (inside too though). Sadly as I live on the opposite side of the world, I doubt there'd be much chance it'd work out for me to get my house painted on the cheap XD That's kind of a long way to haul ladders. Might be hard getting them into carry-on. Good luck with your project though, we should do something like that on our river.
Creator Mary Beth Wilkes on June 28, 2012
Even though I can not actively participate and join in on the fun, this project makes me happy to just ponder and dream on. Gods-speed, junkboat riverfolk!