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Diversity of Pontoon Houseboats
My husband was reading an article this week in one of the boating magazines he receives, about an artist that uses his pontoon houseboat as a floating artist studio. He doesn't live aboard, but uses it as an extension of his home, to keep all his painting supplies stored and to transport him to areas that he uses as the inspiration for his paintings.This started me thinking about all the diverse uses of the pontoon platform.
Pontoons have been used as floating bridges by the armed forces to move men and equipment across bodies of water quickly, to deploy the forces where they are needed. In times of war, bridges either didn't exist where they were needed or had been destroyed by opposing forces. The military engineers have this developed into a high tech science. Once the bridge components have been transported to the site, they can assemble the bridges and have them in use, usually in a matter of hours. Pontoon bridges were used by Civil War engineers, though theirs were less technical than the ones in use today, they were built on the same principal. Some of their pontoon bridges were wooden frames covered in canvas to form the basis of their bridges. They also used this principal to float wagons across rivers.
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Pontoons have been used as floating bridges by the armed forces to move men and equipment across bodies of water quickly, to deploy the forces where they are needed. In times of war, bridges either didn't exist where they were needed or had been destroyed by opposing forces. The military engineers have this developed into a high tech science. Once the bridge components have been transported to the site, they can assemble the bridges and have them in use, usually in a matter of hours. Pontoon bridges were used by Civil War engineers, though theirs were less technical than the ones in use today, they were built on the same principal. Some of their pontoon bridges were wooden frames covered in canvas to form the basis of their bridges. They also used this principal to float wagons across rivers.
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Why I Love to Read
I've loved to read since I was a child. I love my family and my friends, but when I'm craving some time to disappear into my own private little world, I can do it simply with a book by one of my favorite authors, usually Nora Roberts or Fern Michaels. My daughter does the same thing when she reads Beatrice Small or J.D. Robb. Our husbands just look at each other and roll their eyes and say oh well, "they have disappeared into to their own fictional worlds". They have a lot of fun teasing us, however this is a case of the "pot calling the kettle black", my son-in-law loves western novels and will devour them faster than you can find new titles to buy for him. My husband likes Louis Lamour, and reads them again and again, as well as a lot of hunting and fishing magazines.
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Why Boating Equals Peace and Freedom
We are all subjected to so much stress, trying to survive in this recession and hope that our livelihood in not the next in line to be slashed. Some of the stress relief we have managed to achieve is the time spent listening to music and dreaming about the first warm day so we can take the boat out.
For reasons that we can’t totally explain, drifting on the river in the sun brings us the most peace we can find. It seems as though whether on the job or at home, that there is always something or someone placing demands on our time and attention and leaving us no time for ourselves. Or to just be quiet and escape for even a little while. Please don’t get the idea that we don’t enjoy the work we do, or that we don’t love our families and friends, because we do. The time spent on the boat with the sun on our faces and our music, gives us the feeling of being totally free and un-encumbered, even it is only for the afternoon. We always return home recharged and ready to face whatever life chooses to throw our way.
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For reasons that we can’t totally explain, drifting on the river in the sun brings us the most peace we can find. It seems as though whether on the job or at home, that there is always something or someone placing demands on our time and attention and leaving us no time for ourselves. Or to just be quiet and escape for even a little while. Please don’t get the idea that we don’t enjoy the work we do, or that we don’t love our families and friends, because we do. The time spent on the boat with the sun on our faces and our music, gives us the feeling of being totally free and un-encumbered, even it is only for the afternoon. We always return home recharged and ready to face whatever life chooses to throw our way.
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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.
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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.
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