Why not build your own so you can save a lot. It's fun building your own wooden house boat that you can do with your family together. Build your own dream house boat plan and enjoy boating together with your family.
Use our tested wooden house boat plan that we already used to build our own house boat.
Our Dream was to build a boat and vacation on it! Not just any boat. We wanted to build a boat that could be trailed, have room and amenities to live aboard during vacation and use as a camper along the way. After looking at factory built boats it was plain to see that a family with children just did not have money for luxuries like a houseboat.
So, we built our boat right in our back yard and you can too! The hull was constructed of local lumberyard materials and covered with fiberglass. The end result was a craft that out performed factory built boats at a fraction of the cost. Plus, there is a special feeling knowing you built your boat yourself. It becomes more than a boat, it becomes part of your family and I can not think of a better family or school project.
Amateur boat building is huge around the world. Canal boats, pontoon boats, houseboats and just about any type of factory built boat can be constructed by the back yard boat builder.
Here's some you will learn with our book so you
can build your own house boat:
- How we selected the right boat plans
- What boat building material we used and where to find it
- Step by step construction tips with a lot of photos
- How to prevent wood decay with products found at the local stores
- Boat Fiber glassing
- Interior construction
- Painting on a budget and what the paint store will not tell you
- The excitement of the family as we build this dream
- The agony of the engine purchase
- The first test launch
- The Maiden Voyage and how not to anchor
- The case of the moving channel markers
- Trips to the Florida Keys with color pictures
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