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Have house, will travel: life on the lake floats this family's boat
THE lake rocks. The beach sucks. Take a teenager's word for it: sand between your toes is not what summer is all about. This may sound like summer sacrilege, but it comes on the excellent authority of Cambell Courtney, 15, who reckons he's found the secret to a holiday that involves neither sand, surf nor seaweed. No squishing between flags. No wishing away sweaty crowds. Cambell and his family's playground is Lake Eildon, where they own a two-storey designer houseboat. Noel Courtney sums up the case in favour of a moveable retreat, parked year-round on a lake that spreads across nearly 14,000 hectares: ''You can make it whatever you want it to be, there's so much room,'' Noel says. If you think of the marina as their street , the lake is their giant backyard. It's terrific for their children - Cambell, Shea, 18, and Georgia, 20 - and hardly a hard life for adults. ''When we get here we never stay in our 'street', we always go out [on the lake],'' says Linda, 48. ''Usually we've got a posse of about 10 friends and we all go out together. We have happy hour every night. Actually, happy hour is getting earlier and earlier. It starts about four, someone will have it on their boat, and that usually ends about 10.''
Innovative new Footprint boat debuts at the Toronto International Boat Show
The Footprint Boat, a trailerable camper-catamaran, is taking the lead at this years' Toronto International Boat Show. Designed to change the way we play and sleep on the water, the Footprint Boat is 27 feet long, trailerable, and sleeps 6 comfortably. The boat's sleek design and lightweight materials make it durable, fuel efficient and easy to handle. Designed, constructed and tested in the waters in and around Victoria B.C. - this boat solves the problem of affordable and comfortable adventures for kayakers, fishermen, families, campers, and anyone else who loves to get out on the water and explore. Builder Ian Collombin developed the Footprint concept and gained inspiration from his many adventure travels: canal boats of Europe, Airstream trailers, Westfalia Campervans, multi-hulls, and trailerable boats and tent trailers all play into the Footprint's design and easy-to-use amenities.
Morgan couple find their river legs again
Kay and Trevor Burr have only just settled into their houseboat home after high water levels, and the flow on effects, kept them away for one year. Flows into the Murray in South Australia peaked at 93,000 megalitres a day around February 2011. The Murray River widened and water levels remained high in the Mid Murray region until around May 2011. Kay and Trevor Burr found the after effects of the high flows kept them away from their house boat home even longer. "When the waters receded you still couldn't bring your car in because the roads had been washed away and they were very wet. "So unless you had a four wheel drive, and I'm not even sure that would have worked, you would become bogged." Kay added that even after ditching the car and walking the 2.5 kilometres to the moorings the ground that greeted her there was so porous and water logged that sinking up to your knees in mud was a real possibility. Kay says that perhaps if they were younger they could have made it back home a little earlier. "If we were younger and fitter we possibly could have got back on the boat sooner but there was a lot of erosion in the mooring area that we were in."
Thoroughbred Is Relocating
Thoroughbred Houseboats has recently acquired the Fantasy Yacht building on East Hwy 90 in Monticello, Ky. Thoroughbred will be moving all their sales and production operation into the building this month and hopes to be fully operational by the first of February.
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The Greenest Cleaner of All
You spritz the galley counter with anti-bacterial spray, wipe it away, and your houseboat’s food prep area is clean, right? Well, maybe. The cheapest, greenest cleaner onboard is also the most eco-friendly. It’s patience.
Thruster Man, Dick Gragert
HydraNautics has the handle on thruster systems
One of the primary benefits of selecting HydraNautics thrusters over other thruster systems is the ability to retrofit stern thrusters on site—within a day’s time—without having to pull your houseboat out of the water. Dick Gragert hits the road on a regular basis to install these systems throughout the country. Along with 18 years of experience in the industry, Gragert is a houseboater himself and understands how these vessels differ from other types of boats.
Wayne’s World
How to pack an 85-foot beauty into 56 feet
You may think you know what you want when it comes to building a custom houseboat, but nothing can possibly compare to the efforts one California man put into getting the boat of his dreams. Wayne Wasulko is a very detail-oriented person by nature, and when it came to breaking down the specifics of what he wanted and needed for his next houseboat, he was in his own world. Heading into his second houseboat purchase, Wasulko knew exactly what it was going to take to make this custom houseboat worthy of the name Wayne’s World.
Hidden Hideaway
Lake Waco, Texas
Automotive executive Bill Miller, the three times past commodore of the Ridgewood Yacht Club is one of the most active users of both his houseboat and of Lake Waco itself. It was under his last tour as commodore that the marina doubled in size to accommodate 275 slips, 100 of which are houseboats. This was no small accomplishment because being controlled by the Army Corps of Engineers, they had to first obtain permission and consent for the construction and expansion.
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