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dont hide 'em, divide 'em.

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Down right beautiful. Want the link to pics up Ron?

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Yes Dan. I Did Not Even Think Of That. I Did Click On The Link You Gave Me. Fellow Members, I Was Going To Sell My Property And Live On The Boat, Had A Prospectiver Buyer For 350,000, But The Economy Turned Bad For Now. Recently Sold The Yacht At A Loss To Keep Going. Its Still In My Frt Yard. They Repainted The Bottom And Are Moving It Soon To Install Fresh Engines. Hope You Like The Pic. Ron

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I hear you guys loud and clear ... looks like the little house struck a chord in all of us ... The Call of the Wild & Simple!

The houseboat dream has been a big one for me too for a long time. Always thought it would be nice to build something like the mini-home in the video on a pontoon deck. Have an outboard moter just big enough to move it around. I think there are plans for this somewhere online. I'll post the site if I can find it.

Often thought Lake Barkley & Kentucky Lake in western Kentucky would be ideal for a houseboat ... lots of sheltered water, no extremes in weather and a gazillion miles of shore line. A guy could watch his bobber and loaf - I mean think - all day long ... no property taxes to worry about ... no grass to mow .. no snow to shovel.

I like to think I might just work it out someday. I'll be old enough for social security this year so that's a plus ... but I've got some health problems and family responsibilities that will no doubt take priority for a good while ... but we never give up do we?!
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Is a great thread Mike, TY.

I didn't want to ramble on your thread and started one along your theme. Turning into an anti pontoon thing you should consider. Not a great option for comfort or safety. Just a thought. House Boat and why I want one.

Would be a great life though!

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Hey Dan,
Thanks for the input ... I do appreicate it. I have to say I don't have any experience with big pontoon boats that have tall or heavy "cabins" on them so this is good to know. We owned and enjoyed a 21-foot pontoon for many years and found it to be a good, stable craft for fishing and "lounging" in most small lake water conditions. Sounds like the on-deck structure can make a big difference.

Appreciate the heads up here and will be sure to keep it in mind if I'm ever fortunate enough to actually start building my "dream boat". Sounds like the 'toons need to be over sized and the cabin kept near the back (aft) 3/4.

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yeh if you could avoid taxes and just live without any hassle, I don't wan't to be a bum, just scaled down and enjoy what time I got with friends and laughter. You could have great insurance and live a bit longer but what about the quality of life as one of my favorite writers said it so well Thoreau
"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. If we refused, or rather used up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan- like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."

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Mike, I have friends who love their pontoon boats and would not trade 'em for my v hulls. I should not have spoken so disparagingly. Is kinda the 4 stroke vs 2 vs rack mount vs in frame, lol.

Way back I looked into building one. Glen-L has plans and kits. The "Delta King" looked perfect and very cost effective. They have a bunch. I have real trouble with curves so this was perfect for me. They did the math.

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