A Houseboat in Hell

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We moved from the camping grounds to their motel. The room was full of nats, flies, spiders, etc Oh and how could I forget, there was a constable by the name of "McCulley" that came and harassed us, for his reasoning saying "We looked like we were up to no good" when we were simply walking to the bathroom. This was a horrible vacation!! This was the best trip my family and I have had in a long time.

We rented a beautiful House Boat and proceeded to have a blast. The boat was clean and like new.

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The camp grounds and lake were so beautiful that this time we will be returning to rent one of the new chalets that is 5 bedrooms and 3 baths. I really can't say enough about the experience. The employees saw to our every need and the owner made sure we were happy and well cared for. Missing Powell Valley Resorts all the way from Texas. We rented 2 houseboats for a long week end. Our experience was horrible. We have rented houseboats before at different marinas. We have never had such poorly maintained houseboats.

They were dirty and did not run properly. Neither houseboat had a ladder to get back into the boat. One of the boats had ants the other had wasps.

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By the end of the weekend we were down to one working toliet. The refrigerator did not work. The hot tubs overflowed when we rocked and the water came in the closed windows and soaked the mattresses. The lake water near where we parked the houseboats was being polluted by the exhaust and oil leaking from the boats. We had a black film covering our skin when we got out of the water, and it was also all over our rafts, tubes, and speedboats. We were never shown or even told where the life jackets and fire extinguishers were.

Our trip was very disappointing. Went there at first becsause there were no vacancies at any of the campgrounds. Called and everyone was so friendly.

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The owner and staff have always been wonderful;. Camped initially but started going down and staying in the motel. Each unit has a kitchen and a wonderful view of the Lake. We will continue to come back. Then about a mile from the Bay Bridge I got seriously waked by the Vallejo ferry. The engine sputtered for 10 minutes or so and then died.

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I called the owner and gave him the bad news. I drifted with the outbound tide for 15 minutes or so and then got the engine going using flood procedure. Throttle all the way down, turn the key. I passed three or four ships at anchor outside the channel.


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By now it was 2: The wind came up south of the bridge out of the northwest and I had to fight the helm for the remainder of the trip. I had been told that it is really dicey getting into this marina at low tide. This is an understatement! About yards from my destination, I ran softly aground again. I had nowhere else to go. This time I thought it was really bad because the tide was still going out.

Next I headed to the nearest marina with a guest dock, Redwood Manor Marina but ran into a sand bar on the way and softly grounded the boat again.


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Once again, I got off with no assistance. Finally, I docked the boat safely. Dan soon found me. The boat ended up about one-half mile from its destination, but both of us were pleased with the results given what I had to work with.

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The next day the boat was moved to its new home at high tide. I figured the whole trip was about 90 miles. These types of houseboats are generally not designed to take rough seas. Keep your houseboat in calmer waters like the Delta. If it has to be moved and you have to take it through areas known for high wind and waves choose your battles wisely.

As always, feedback is appreciated. Live Show Tickets Megathread. Can confirm that living on a houseboat is dope as all hell. The narrowboat community is pretty quick to respond to queries. There are loads of facebook groups. As soon as I said my boat just did an enormous fart people clued me into what the problem was. My girlfriend also reminded me that the first time she slept on her boat, she woke to find herself drifting in the middle of the canal. Her ropes had come loose in the night, and the wind blew her away from the bank.

She had to reattach the tiller arm Like a steering wheel, but a big long stick , turn the engine, navigate back to the side, and hammer her mooring pins big tent pegs back into the ground whilst wearing her pyjamas. You have a boat girlfriend? You're like a power couple with houseboats.

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