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| 02/02/12
Isolation is a way of life for Whittier residents - Particularly in winter
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Arlen Arneson has a long driveway.
Ninety miles outside of Anchorage, at the end of Portage Valley Road, through a two-mile tunnel under the mountain, Arneson lives in a houseboat at the end of Float B in the Whittier small boat harbor.
In the winter, the narrow dock to his front door is coated with...
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| 01/30/12
Houseboat industry eyes new venture for comeback
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Kentucky's houseboat manufacturers once thrived by churning out luxurious floating residences, but the industry was nearly capsized by the economic downturn. Now it's dabbling in a new venture as it looks for a different course — the construction of moderately priced, energy efficient landlocked homes.
Houseboat...
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| 01/23/12
Have house, will travel: life on the lake floats this family's boat
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THE lake rocks. The beach sucks. Take a teenager's word for it: sand between your toes is not what summer is all about.
This may sound like summer sacrilege, but it comes on the excellent authority of Cambell Courtney, 15, who reckons he's found the secret to a holiday that involves neither sand, surf...
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| 01/17/12
Innovative new Footprint boat debuts at the Toronto International Boat Show
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The Footprint Boat, a trailerable camper-catamaran, is taking the lead at this years' Toronto International Boat Show. Designed to change the way we play and sleep on the water, the Footprint Boat is 27 feet long, trailerable, and sleeps 6 comfortably.
The boat's sleek design and lightweight materials...
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| 01/13/12
Morgan couple find their river legs again
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Kay and Trevor Burr have only just settled into their houseboat home after high water levels, and the flow on effects, kept them away for one year.
Flows into the Murray in South Australia peaked at 93,000 megalitres a day around February 2011.
The Murray River widened and water levels remained high...
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| 01/12/12
Thoroughbred Is Relocating
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Thoroughbred Houseboats has recently acquired the Fantasy Yacht building on East Hwy 90 in Monticello, Ky. Thoroughbred will be moving all their sales and production operation into the building this month and hopes to be fully operational by the first of February.
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| 12/08/11
Making a houseboat a home
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A Corbin family will soon be first-time homeowners but they won’t be living in a typical home.
Dennis Reynolds, 29, his wife, Billie Reynolds, 28, and their 3-year-old son, Grabrille Reynolds, will soon move into the second prototype of an energy-efficient manufactured house called Houseboat to...
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| 11/29/11
Check out a sleek houseboat that was inspired by its stunning environment
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A stunning view of the Vancouver marina, the North Shore mountains and downtown are only a taste of the upsides of living in this floating home. Owners Doug McClelland and Anthony Tucker plopped their newly built floating home in Coal Harbour Marina in Vancouver, British Columbia. This harbor is considered...
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| 11/28/11
Houseboat owners find home at N. Miss. marina
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Solid ground feels funny to someone who isn't used to it. Raymond Shoemaker is such a person.
"A lot of the time when we go up north to visit our son, we'll be lying in bed and something will be wrong," the 72-year-old said. "It's that we're not moving -- that's what's wrong."
Shoemaker and his...
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| 11/21/11
NMMA: Push Congress to keep mortgage deduction
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The National Marine Manufacturers Association is asking its members to contact Congress about threats to the second-mortgage interest deduction.
The second-home-mortgage interest deduction can be used by boat owners if their vessel meets certain criteria and they have not used the deduction on another...
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