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Our ongoing project is also a boat, only we live on it full time while we're doing all the building work. Hendrik is 103 feet long by 16 feet wide, built in 1933 and was used by the previous owners as a hotel for canoeing holidays (and came with 26 bunk beds in 12 tiny rooms).  We've got about ten years of DIY ahead of us, we reckon, but we're slowly doing one project at a time. Currently we're on small improvements before we take the hotel portion of the boat down to the hull in Spring, recoat the steel, lay on new insulation and build in the walls for the two bedrooms, two en suites, and living room. Currently, we're rebuilding the galley steps because two of the old ones rotted away underneath me, making them a bit hazardous to walk on. So we stripped back the old steps down to the metal framework and cut a new board down to step-size, but haven't quite drilled the holes and bolted them on yet:   And the other little project we're working on right now is an interior vertical passageway from the back captain's cabin up through the ceiling into the floor of the wheelhouse, which will be concealed by a cupboard in the wheelhouse. This way we can go up there without having to get wet or cold or put on shoes and a coat.  We've got the hole cut, but we need some stair steps welded on down below so we can actually use it. Even my She-Ra strength can't lift myself through with a rise like that...
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goatse guy posted:I think we need threads from both of you. I'd love to see more pictures and get more information on both restoring a houseboat and building one from scratch.
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