Floating houses?
 

A guy down the dock recently got back from a trip
out west somewhere. He was talking about some
river--maybe up around Washington state--where
they do a lot of logging, and move logs with barges,
etc. He said there were houses built on logs out
there, some of them two and three story, and they
were linked together via docks like subdivisions.
Does anyone know what they are called, or/and
if there's a good place to see pics of such things
online?

Floating houses?
 

Floating houses?
 

Here it is 'Newfoundland' style after outports abandoned & people moved to
central locations
** http://www.canadafirst.net/our_heritage/newfoundland/

Floating houses?
 

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On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:32:54 GMT, wrote:

... houses built on logs out
there, some of them two and three story, and they
were linked together via docks like subdivisions.
Does anyone know what they are called, or/and
if there's a good place to see pics of such things
online?
a search on google for "sausalito houseboats"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...ats%22&spell=1

The Tom Hanks character's home in "Sleepless in Seattle" was a floating
house...and there are also a number of 'em in FL...not on logs, but
supported by what amounts to floating docks. Key West is famous for
them. Most of the coastal ones are quite nice. But there are also
communities of them--some quite nice, some floating slums that make
trailer parks upscale in comparison, many in between--on inland rivers
and lakes all over the country...most of which are thorns in the sides
of the states they're in for a variety of reasons.

--
Peggie
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Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
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Floating houses?
 

:-)

I wrote a book "handmade houseboats" which might be worth checking
out. And here's a couple websites:

http://oasis.fortunecity.com/blackpool/218/houseboat/ for a fairly
good read.

www.waiheke.co.nz/boat with one - called Tsunami.

Cheers

Russell

Floating houses?
 

We've checked them out on the Columbia here in Oregon. It may be the place
your friend had in mind. The homes here range from small boat house shacks
to massive multi-storied luxury home in gated marinas. The scenes are
usually quite peaceful and scenic.

The aspect that put us off them is the slip fees. Short of finding that rare
home that owns it's own slip, you can pay between $450 and $900 per month
for the slip fee. That's a fee that NEVER goes away. It isn't tax deducible,
you can't sell it and it doesn't gain equity. The homes start at 35k and
we've seen them in the mid 400's. There are a LOT of them for sale right
now.

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A guy down the dock recently got back from a trip
out west somewhere. He was talking about some
river--maybe up around Washington state--where
they do a lot of logging, and move logs with barges,
etc. He said there were houses built on logs out
there, some of them two and three story, and they
were linked together via docks like subdivisions.
Does anyone know what they are called, or/and
if there's a good place to see pics of such things
online?