On Aug 8, 12:36*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 05:35:53 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
Thinking of doing a houseboat vacation on Powell with the kids and grandbaby
in maybe a year. *Any good pointers? *Will bring the jetboat also.- Hide quoted text -
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When we go on our fishing trip, we took our bass boats with us, towed
them behind the houseboat. That way, besides fishing, you could go to
a marina for supplies, etc. The **** tank seems to get full pretty
quick, but then there were usually 7 or 8 of us, eating real well.
Take along dvds because you may be in a place where there's no tv
reception. Also, check with them about their lines. We rented a
houseboat one time and they didn't have much for lines to tie up
anywhere. We would find a cove and run the houseboat in bow first to
have access to land. A storm came and whipped the houseboat around so
much that both of the inadequate lines they gave us broke.
That sounds strange to me. The boat we rented had 1/2"or 5/8" yacht
braid anchor lines rigged from the stern, two anchors. You beached the
bow and put the anchors out at 45degree angles, dug into the sand with
a shovel. There was a big coil of this line on each side of the stern
and shorter docking lines on the bow, same style.
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We went out of Page but I understand Bullfrog is more secluded. With
the way gas prices are, the whole place may be more secluded now.
I don't really know anything about it that they don't tell you when
you rent the boat. I was sort of surprised they don't need the
operator to have any particular credentials to rent this boat. They
will come get you if you don't feel comfortable docking tho.
The first thing I did once we got well clear of the marina was to see
how it handled. With 2 screws you can maneuver these hogs around
pretty well ... if the wind isn't too bad. Visibility from the helm is
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No anchors at all on the houseboats at Grider Hill on Lake Cumberland.
I think maybe being rentals they don't want newbies getting the anchor
fouled or some such. I'll tell ya, a 70' or so houseboat with a single
75hp Evinrude is a handful!
Almost impossible in the wind. As a matter of fact, one year we got
there and there was a hell of a storm, and of course we wanted to get
out of the marina and get the festivities started, so they told us
where their maintenence dock was in a cove and we tied up to that.