A couple years ago, a group of friends from the Finnish town of Joensuu built a raft for houseboating with sauna on board. A lot of it is similar to other hoseboats, but the ship itself and its lookout tower remains the most cool part. These guys do not just use it themselves, but also rent it out.
Quite a good holiday option in sunny and calm weather.
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Fantastic Floating Home
I’ve seen quite a few houseboats, and we’ve shared lots here by now, but this one is huge. It’s a split level unit houseboat! 20 meters long (65 feet). And it’s got style as well.
Look at that functional, airy layout interior they’ve put in this houseboat. It’s called the “Amsterdam,” and it’s a 20 x 6.9 meter Dutch barge home from Bowcrest.
From the builders: “This massive split level unit has an exceptionally shallow draft which allows this floating home to be placed on a mooring with very little water. The vast amount of space achieved makes this large family floating home both desirable and affordable. With the ever pressing shortage of Land we need to look at what alternatives are available to us to provide sustainable and affordable homes for the future. This lovely floating villa with its vast panoramic shows just what living on water really can be like.”
Check out the gallery of photos below (all images on our site are expandable, even the featured image at the top).
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Vintage Camper Restored as a Boaterhome
Did someone say ‘boaterhome’? What does that even mean? It’s like a houseboat, but instead of a house structure, its a motorhome structure used as the basis, and floated on pontoons like any other houseboat. Kind of a neat idea, especially if you have access to the DIY materials to make one.
This one was featured on Animal Planet’s “Flipping Ships” show. They actually took an old camper — really a pretty old, worn out one that was sitting on a lot, and transformed it into this shiny, eyecatching RV on water unit. The people who built it had camping and being on the water in mind, two things they really enjoy.
It’s kind of funny, it seems, to see a camper driving around on a lake. It’s pretty much a one-of-a-kind, although we did find one other old unit that is somewhat similar, but maybe a little larger (it’s in the gallery of images).
Check out the gallery of photos below (all images on our site are expandable, even the featured image at the top).
Update: We found another one! The other one is a vintage Airstream Sovereign from 1968 that was converted into a Boaterhome – actually a version of a pontoon boat with an RV camper interior. Boss.
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