Around 2/14/2005 5:49 PM, DSK wrote:

You can have that. Plenty of boats... not very big ones... have
fireplaces... a solid fuel heater with a pyrex door panel...

One of my favorite cruising boats of all time was an old shrimping boat
(a Harkers Islander for those who know the breed) with a car engine and
a small 2 bunk cabin outfitted with a little pot-bellied stove. Great
fun to putter around and explore, never another soul out on the water in
the winter, and the cabin always cozy & dry & warm.

My grandpa's boat had a nice free-standing wood-burning stove... but his
boat was a converted seiner about 60' long, so he had the room. :)

He had it moored in front of his condo on a tributary of the Frasier
River in BC. In the winter, he'd keep a small fire going all the time so
the plumbing and various liquid tanks wouldn't freeze.


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:49:02 -0500, DSK wrote:

~~ snippage ~~

One of my favorite cruising boats of all time was an old shrimping boat
(a Harkers Islander for those who know the breed) with a car engine and
a small 2 bunk cabin outfitted with a little pot-bellied stove. Great
fun to putter around and explore, never another soul out on the water in
the winter, and the cabin always cozy & dry & warm.

A guy I knew in high school had a custom Beal downeaster with a little
french coal stove in the cabin. He lobstered year 'round so I guess
it was necessary.

Later,

Tom

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:18:28 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Don White wrote:
"Ed" wrote in message
oups.com...

I am wondering if any one on this list lives aboard there boat? If so
how do you like it? Pro and cons ? At what size should a person keep
there boat at a marina or trailer it back and forth ?

Thanks
Ed



You have to be pretty tough or desperate to want to live aboard a
typical "pleasure boat" in a cold climate. In addition to all the
problems and challenges already mentioned, consider that these boat
hulls are pretty much uninsulated and have single-pane windows. That
means they're always going to be cold inside unless you run whatever
heating system you have full-blast 24-7. And then you have all sorts of
interesting condensation problems, frozen pipe possibilities, bathroom
challenges, et cetera and so forth.


didn't get that far with mine; lived on the chesapeake for 2 months in
the middle of summer and you're right...the hull is very thin. i
bought one of those drop thru the hatch A/C units...when the temp was
100 deg outside it took about 2-3 hours to cool down to 80 or so in
the cabin. not very pleasant...
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:04:12 -0500, "JimH" wrote:



Plenty on the San Francisco Bay in Sausalito also. Here is the webpage of
one of the builders of these floating houses.

http://www.messersmithhomes.com/index2.html



yep, saw those last year...remarkable places.
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:20:52 GMT, (Bob) wrote:

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:18:28 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Don White wrote:
"Ed" wrote in message
oups.com...

I am wondering if any one on this list lives aboard there boat? If so
how do you like it? Pro and cons ? At what size should a person keep
there boat at a marina or trailer it back and forth ?

Thanks
Ed



You have to be pretty tough or desperate to want to live aboard a
typical "pleasure boat" in a cold climate. In addition to all the
problems and challenges already mentioned, consider that these boat
hulls are pretty much uninsulated and have single-pane windows. That
means they're always going to be cold inside unless you run whatever
heating system you have full-blast 24-7. And then you have all sorts of
interesting condensation problems, frozen pipe possibilities, bathroom
challenges, et cetera and so forth.


didn't get that far with mine; lived on the chesapeake for 2 months in
the middle of summer and you're right...the hull is very thin. i
bought one of those drop thru the hatch A/C units...when the temp was
100 deg outside it took about 2-3 hours to cool down to 80 or so in
the cabin. not very pleasant...
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A mid-August, windless, 98 F day on the Chesapeake is no fun, unless the fish
are biting, of course!


John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes