Pontoon Houseboat Dreaming
I'm sitting in front of my computer in my comfy home office looking out the window at the snow falling and dreaming of Spring, which seems far away at the moment. How I would love to be somewhere warm, floating on the water on our houseboat and enjoying the quiet and serenity of the water lapping on the pontoons or spending an afternoon with our friends on all the boats beached on the sandbar.
We bought a very well used pontoon houseboat a little over a year ago, and we've spent a lot of (most of them happy) hours restoring it. Thank goodness my husband is blessed with a lot of talents, including imagination and carpentry. The original plan was to just clean it up and do a few minor things and put her in the water to cruise and enjoy, well like most well intentioned plans, we are at this point in time and it's still not in the water.
We bought a very well used pontoon houseboat a little over a year ago, and we've spent a lot of (most of them happy) hours restoring it. Thank goodness my husband is blessed with a lot of talents, including imagination and carpentry. The original plan was to just clean it up and do a few minor things and put her in the water to cruise and enjoy, well like most well intentioned plans, we are at this point in time and it's still not in the water.
Above picture of our Pontoon Houseboat as Purchased before our Rebuild and Restoration. You can also view several other blogs of our restoration process here. The picture below is the same boat after our rebuild. For more pictures of our restoration please Click Here
Click here to view several other Pictures of other Pontoon Houseboats in Local Marina.
All we have left of the original is the pontoons and the front deck. All of the decking under the cabin and the stern has been replaced, then we tackled the cabin. The original plan for the cabin was to replace the paneling and add a few ascetic touches, such as cushions and new window treatments. Again so much for "the plan", when we removed the paneling, we found rotten studs and water damage, that had to be addressed, to make a long involved story short, we rebuilt the cabin from the deck up. The fun part of the cabin rebuild was getting to re-design the floor plan and add some of things we wanted to make it more comfortable for us to stay aboard on long weekends, and have more space to entertain our friends. We are really looking forward to testing this out in the Spring.
My husband enjoyed the parts of the rebuild that involved getting new tools,a router, two sanders, and a new paint sprayer. We spend a lot of time just trying to find the right materials to complete the rebuild, there is not a lot of marine supplies available where we live, so we spent a lot of time in cyber space researching and choosing our materials. I'll go into this more in future post, we will be happy to tell you about some of the great resources we found and well as some that didn't work out as well.
It is another cold gray day here, and I'm sitting in front of the computer, longing for warmth and sunshine, and mulling over the tasks remaining to get our houseboat ready to put in the water at the earliest opportunity. As mentioned in the above paragraph, my husband loved getting the new tools that were necessary to do some of the remodeling that was crucial on our boat. For me the fun part of this rebuild was getting to do some creative color co-ordination , purchasing the materials for cushions, etc. I love to sew, to me this is creative therapy to take a piece of fabric and create something useful and truly "one of a kind". My husband has the same attitude toward the work he does with wood. If you would like to view more pictures of our restoration and re-construction rebuild "adventures" visit our website: Pontoon Houseboat Odyssey
Click here to view several other Pictures of other Pontoon Houseboats in Local Marina.
All we have left of the original is the pontoons and the front deck. All of the decking under the cabin and the stern has been replaced, then we tackled the cabin. The original plan for the cabin was to replace the paneling and add a few ascetic touches, such as cushions and new window treatments. Again so much for "the plan", when we removed the paneling, we found rotten studs and water damage, that had to be addressed, to make a long involved story short, we rebuilt the cabin from the deck up. The fun part of the cabin rebuild was getting to re-design the floor plan and add some of things we wanted to make it more comfortable for us to stay aboard on long weekends, and have more space to entertain our friends. We are really looking forward to testing this out in the Spring.
My husband enjoyed the parts of the rebuild that involved getting new tools,a router, two sanders, and a new paint sprayer. We spend a lot of time just trying to find the right materials to complete the rebuild, there is not a lot of marine supplies available where we live, so we spent a lot of time in cyber space researching and choosing our materials. I'll go into this more in future post, we will be happy to tell you about some of the great resources we found and well as some that didn't work out as well.
It is another cold gray day here, and I'm sitting in front of the computer, longing for warmth and sunshine, and mulling over the tasks remaining to get our houseboat ready to put in the water at the earliest opportunity. As mentioned in the above paragraph, my husband loved getting the new tools that were necessary to do some of the remodeling that was crucial on our boat. For me the fun part of this rebuild was getting to do some creative color co-ordination , purchasing the materials for cushions, etc. I love to sew, to me this is creative therapy to take a piece of fabric and create something useful and truly "one of a kind". My husband has the same attitude toward the work he does with wood. If you would like to view more pictures of our restoration and re-construction rebuild "adventures" visit our website: Pontoon Houseboat Odyssey
Posted by blog.houseboatodyssey1.com at 2/13/2009 8:55 AM 
Categories: Article, Houseboat (s), Accessories, Pontoon Houseboat (s), Our Houseboat Rebuild
Tags: picture pontoon tools article rebuilding power tools
Categories: Article, Houseboat (s), Accessories, Pontoon Houseboat (s), Our Houseboat Rebuild
Tags: picture pontoon tools article rebuilding power tools
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I actually went and looked at your website and I'd suggest that maybe you should be actually writing some meaningful content for it. You make Lake Norman sound as if it's located and managed by the "Gestapo" and the DNR is a constant threat to boaters utilizing the lake. And it appears as if when a person rents one of your boats, you've prohibited practically and made rules against everything, up-to and including playing the radio?? Quote: Don't try to turn the music up loud enough to hear while you're moving. You will blow out the speakers, and you can't hear it very well over the motor, anyway.
With the nice "Quiet Motors" available on the market today, just why are you renting folks boats with such obsolete noisy motors anyway??
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The poker run is again a for sure event again this year. Usually the club does have the event date established by now for the event. But due to economics and attempting to keep both club and membership costs down, heating of the clubhouse was suspended for the winter season (a first). As such membership meetings were suspended, and the scheduling of events such as the poker run are running behind. Keep our site bookmarked and we'll for sure update the confirmed date of the event as soon as it's know and available to us to post. Membership meeting are resuming this month so we "may have" a date established by the end or fist of next month.
Thanks for dropping by,
PontoonHouseboatOdyssey.Com
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If you're referring to our home site PontoonHouseboatOdyssey.Com it was or is based on a tinplate that was called Horse Ranch. I'm sort of talking past tense because when we were working on the site last weekend we were notified that it is no longer available. They said they would continue to support it but we would be unable to do any real changes to the tinplate now.
Thanks for the complement and do feel free to come back and visit us again,
PontoonHouseboatOdyssey
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Thank you, we wanted an attractive page, unfortunately that template is no longer available.
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When are going to write up a follow up article on this post... is it going to be anytime soon?
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