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  • BoatUS: Irene's recreational boat damage could hit $500 million

    August 31, 2011
    News
    Boating Industry
    Coastal areas are usually the hardest hit when a hurricane strikes. However, early reports from Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS)
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  • Houseboat Editor To Judge IBEX Innovation Awards

    August 30, 2011
    News
    The National Marine Manfacturers Association (NMMA) and Boating Writers International (BWI)recently announced this year's judges for the 2011 Internat
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  • On a houseboat in Queens, dry and unimpressed by a storm

    August 30, 2011
    News
    Corey Kilgannon - The New York Times
    On Sunday morning, as New York City was feeling the brunt of what had become Tropical Storm Irene, Billy Drankwater, 57, was leisurely buttering a pie
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  • Houseboats to provide key to UK housing crisis

    August 29, 2011
    News
    Andrew Grice, Political Editor - independent.co.uk
    The government has unveiled its latest answer to the shortage of affordable homes in Britain: it wants more people to live on houseboats. Local aut
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  • Lake Powell fishing report - Houseboaters report striper boils

    August 26, 2011
    News
    Wayne Gustaveson - www.sltrib.com
    It feels much better to write this report after catching a striper in a boil. It is amazing how that can change one's attitude for the better. When st
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  • The 24th Annual Showboats International Yacht Rendezvous announces headlining entertainment

    August 25, 2011
    News
    Everybody wishes they could live the lifestyle of the rich and famous and now, thanks to the 24th Annual ShowBoats International Yachting Rendezvous,
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  • Watts Bar Lake death believed to be from medical condition

    August 24, 2011
    News
    Staff Report - www.timesfreepress.com
    A 57-year-old man found floating in Watts Bar Lake on Saturday is believed to have died as the result of a medical emergency rather than drowning, aut
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  • Derelict houseboat Dreamaker plies the Manatee River

    August 23, 2011
    News
    Robert Eckhart - www.heraldtribune.com
    A broken-down houseboat nicknamed Dreamaker sits half submerged in the brown waters of the Manatee River, looking more and more like a ghost ship as t
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  • Biddeford Pool live-aboard boat proposal up in the air

    August 22, 2011
    News
    Emma Bouthillette - www.pressherald.com
    A proposal to moor a live-aboard vessel in Biddeford Pool that has caused concern in the community remains in flux. Ned Baldwin, a New York-based a
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  • Good service saved houseboat vacation

    August 18, 2011
    News
    Debbie Zachau - www.redding.com
    While house boating on Lake Shasta over the July 4 holiday we had a little incident that could have been a real sour note on our vacation. The mainten
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  • Council defers action on Coney Island houseboats

    August 17, 2011
    News
    Reg Clayton - www.kenoradailyminerandnews.com
    Houseboat owners mooring their recreational watercraft in or around the city water lot off the northeast side of Coney Island received a temporary rep
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  • Hirst fights to buy moorings for his Chelsea houseboat

    August 16, 2011
    News
    Mark Prigg - www.thisislondon.co.uk
    Artist Damien Hirst and Yo Sushi! founder Simon Woodroffe are part of a co-op of barge owners fighting to buy the Chelsea boatyard where their housebo
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  • Houseboat vacation a learning experience

    August 15, 2011
    News
    Walleye Dan - www.brainerddispatch.com
    Totally fresh back from a three-day houseboat family vacation on Lake Vermillion. I love that part of the world, but the houseboat threw a differen
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  • Deadline set to move houseboats from Bush Island area

    August 11, 2011
    News
    Sarah Petz - www.kenoradailyminerandnews.com
    Houseboat owners, take notice. The city of Kenora is currently working with the Ontario Provincial Police and Ministry of Natural Resources to have ho
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  • Round Lake gives up on Wooster Lake no-wake rule

    August 10, 2011
    News
    Frank Abderholden - newssun.suntimes.com
    Wooster Lake is back to being wide open for boats to travel at any speed after a Round Lake ordinance was rescinded last month. The controversy on
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  • Judgement unfair to houseboat owners

    August 08, 2011
    News
    G.Harrison - www.iwcp.co.u
    IT IS with absolute disbelief I heard, a few days ago, a number of houseboat owners in the harbour of Bembridge have been evicted from their own prope
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  • NOAA upgrades hurricane forecast

    August 05, 2011
    News
    Trade Only Today
    Even as Tropical Storm Emily dissipated Thursday, NOAA issued its updated 2011 Atlantic hurricane season outlook, raising the number of named storms i
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  • German state of Brandenburg: Fine waters for a houseboat holiday

    August 04, 2011
    News
    Leah Larkin - www.stripes.com
    With its 3,000 lakes and 18,600 miles of waterways, the German state of Brandenburg is the perfect place to explore by boat. Last October, six of u
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  • Buying a home that floats

    August 01, 2011
    News
    June Fletcher - online.wsj.com
    Q. I cannot afford to buy a waterfront home. However, I saw an ad recently for a houseboat that I can afford. The idea of living in one intrigues me.
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