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I walked through this MH/boat at the California RV show 5 or 6 years ago. It was very nicely done. The company is the same folks who manufacture the DUCK tour boats/trucks you see around many of the larger harbors. So they have lots of years experience in creating land/water vehicles.
I'm still trying to find the pontoon boats from the 70's where you would rent one and drive your RV up onto it to create a temporary houseboat for cruising big lakes. I think that would be cool to park our 5th wheel on it and then spend a week or so cruising around Lake Powell or Lake Shasta. The pontoon boats had a wheelhouse and large outboard motors, the rest was a big flat platform where you could park your RV and set out your table & chairs.
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Wouldn't you love to see the face of the guy that had maybe a few too many beers in the hot sun watch this MH drive into the water!!
I saw this on HGTV one season on their show featuring RVs. I don't know if I would want to be in it when it went into the water even though I know it is OK. I would just feel funny. I guess I won't have to worry cause I can't find that million dollars anywhere....I've looked and looked and I just can't find it.
Down here on the bayou, for a number of years there has been a company that outfitted a large deck barge onto which you drove your RV, of any type, parked and then the tug pushes the barge on the Intracoastal Canal and several rivers. You cruise for several weeks with stops along the way to site see on land. The trips are usually from the New Orleans area traveling east and west. CCC
I've seen those before (ads, not in person). I would love to have something that cool, but even if I had the bucks, I probably wouldn't get one. I'm just too dang cheap. I would want to go cheaper on the toys and give that extra money to a food pantry or something.
I wonder if it has something that stabilizes it. It doesn't look like it has much freeboard - I can remember when a 45' Bayliner waked us when we were out on our houseboat. I spent a frantic minute or two trying to catch all of our stuff while DH tried to keep us heading in the right direction. That was the last time we took our "home" out on the river, we bought a little boat for fishing and playing.
I guess it doesn't really matter - there's no million bucks stashed in our bank account.
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