WALKTHROUGH TOUR: Our Lake Lanier Houseboat
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2024
- In this week's Deep Houseboat Life video, take a video walkthrough tour through our entire 2002 Sumerset houseboat on Lake Lanier, Georgia. You’ll get the full houseboat living experience seeing both the interior and exterior of our floating home, the houseboat ambiance and design inside, and our favorite spots to hang out at, including the top deck and water slide! Come along with us for our Lake Lanier houseboat tour.
Our boat is a 16 feet wide by 80 feet long houseboat. While compact, there’s ample space for living on a houseboat full time or part time.
Complete with an enclosed Isinglass front porch (deck), full living room (salon) and kitchen (galley), a king master and two queen guest bedrooms (staterooms), and two bathrooms (heads), we have everything we need for long stays, off grid living, houseboat life adventures, and full time houseboat living. Come see what simple living is like on a houseboat!
The spacious back porch (deck) has a swim platform for easy swimming and launching SUPs and kayaks from the houseboat. The top deck is equipped with surround sound, a double bar, and a water slide. The front lounge on the top deck is perfect for cocktail cruising and catching amazing houseboat life sunsets on our floating house on the water!
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🕘Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
1:08 - Houseboat exterior
1:13 - Front exterior
1:32 - Power & water
2:21 - Side exterior
2:49 - Front porch (deck)
3:36 - Hull storage
4:00 - Houseboat interior
4:01 - Living room (salon)
4:26 - Kitchen (galley)
4:57 - Captain’s helms
5:28 - Bedrooms (staterooms)
5:51 - Bathrooms (heads)
6:04 - Back porch (deck)
6:24 - Houseboat water slide
6:45 - Swim platform
7:04 - Engines & generator
7:20 - Storage lockers
7:37 - Stairs to top deck
8:11 - Top deck
9:32 - What’s next on our houseboat channel
9:48 - Thank you!
All music from Epidemic Sound, appearing in below order:
1. Fort Green Sunset (Brendon Moeller)
2. Low Light (Daxen)
3. Beach Memories (Sum Wave)
4. On the Keys of Steel (Dusty Decks)
5. Lucid Dreams, Gribbe Instrumental Remix (Tape Machines, Gribbe)
6. Pzazz (Thip Trong)
7. Low Light (Daxen)
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Welcome to our Lake Lanier houseboat! We are happy to share it with you. After watching our houseboat tour, what do you wish we had shown about our boat that we didn't in this video? Let us know in the comments, AND let us know your favorite part of our houseboat! 👇
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Welcome to being houseless! We love living between our houseboat and RV and don't miss having a house at all. Great video.
Thank you so much for watching our video :). Y'all are living the dream setup; it's so inspirational and we have enjoyed following your story. Especially the houseboat renovation. Looks awesome!
What a beautiful houseboat! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for your kind words and for watching our video! My wife and I think it finally feels like "home." Best decision we've ever made.
A beautiful boat.
Thank you so much! It’s a great boat and we love it!
Nice house boat, looks like fun for the family...👍👍👍
Thanks so much for taking the tour of our houseboat, Mitchell! The houseboat has been an absolute BLAST for our family, especially now that our daughter, Clare, is getting older. We've also gotten to share it with our friends and family. Nothing quite like it. Thanks again for watching.
Such a beautiful blessing.
It really is such a blessing! We are very fortunate to have this houseboat to make memories and to share our experiences with others. Thank you for watching!
Another great video... I'm going to have to go back and watch them all. Might as well learn the history. Thanks again for sharing your houseboat life.
It makes us happy that you are enjoying our videos! We’ve got a bunch on our channel now, so definitely check them out. Let us know if there is something you’d like for us to make a video about, especially if you have specific questions.
Glad I stumbled across this. Looking forward to seeing more.
Thank you so much for watching our video and for the kind words. We are so glad you found our channel and we are looking forward to putting out new videos in the coming weeks!!!
Good show. Keep it up.
Thank you Joe for the kind words and watching our video. We plan to keep putting out new videos and we hope you enjoy them!!!
Ty much. Nice nice
Thank you for watching, Bryan!
Hi, I've just discovered your brilliant channel and I'm really looking forward to viewing more. I thought as you mentioned that you take water from the dock and leave the water tank alone. I would suggest that you still use the water tank and top up from the dock as the water is consumed. That way it keeps the water tank fresher. Please forgive me if I got it all wrong. Heartfelt best wishes at you all (inc Dora).
Hey Steven! Thank you for the comment and watching the channel. After talking to a few more boaters we do use tank water from time to time and then top it off with fresh water. The main reason we don’t alway use tank water while at the dock is because the water pump is right next to our daughter’s room and can wake her up. Never fun to wake up a 1 year old from a deep sleep. Have a great week and please feel free to share any other tips and tricks.
I’ve never seen a dog walk up steps before. 😆
Hahaha it is pretty funny to watch. She usually insists on going up the steps first. Welsh Springer Spaniels have such humorous personalities. Natural comedians!
If you guys get Battleborn Lithium batteries, you won't regret it for long term off grid energy
This is a great recommendation, thank you! We've been looking into which batteries we should get and have heard good things about Battleborn. Have you used them? We're probably going to invest in some brand of batteries soon.
Great video guys. I'm getting older and with some health issues, having a 2000sqft-ish house and one acre of land, yard maintenance is getting to me. I want to downsize, but will never go back to an apartment. I'm tossing around the idea of a RV or houseboat and to me a houseboat seems like a great idea, especially if a pole shift is coming soon.
What's your thoughts on a sailboat-houseboat because, what if someday, we can't get fuel? So many questions.
Just sub'd to yall.
Love the channel !!! What marina are you guys at? It looks so nice.
Thank you so much for watching our channel! It's been really fun sharing our adventures with others who love boating. We're at one of the marinas on the northern part of the lake :)
Boat is gorgeous. I am thinking of purchasing one. You live on it full time?
Thank you so much, Karen! We are very fortunate to have our houseboat. We haven’t regretted buying ours yet and highly recommend the lifestyle. We don’t live full time, just do part time. If was just my wife and me, we would probably try to go full time.
But how many cupholders are there?
Hahaha as a fellow boat lover, I’m sure you can appreciate that there...just isn’t enough cup holders. Though there are two where it counts most, by the helm!
just found your channel not long ago-another utuber i follow are on this lake to( watts on wheels) anyway love your boat so nice...also was your boat in the water when that bad storm went through awhile back?watts on wheels had some videos of it so scary
Hey Donna! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. We are on the same lake as Watts on Wheels and hopefully we can meet up with them one day. That storm was crazy and hit the lake the same week we closed on our boat. So technically our boat was on the water at that time, but it wasn't legally our boat. After that storm there was a lot of damage to local marinas and we were lucky to get our slip. Thank you again for the compliments about our boat, and we hope you enjoy the upcoming videos we put out. Have a wonderful weekend!
@@DeepHouseboatLife looking forward to a vid together thanks for answer
@@donnapatten285 that would be so fun!
Love Lanier. I had the pleasure of spending a few weeks on a houseboat there at Holiday Marina.
I am looking for somewhere to live full time on a houseboat.
I know Lanier is a Corps of Engineers lake, and you are only allowed to stay 30 days per year.
My question is: Does this get enforced? Is there really any way to enforce it? I would assume it's a dont ask dont tell kind of scenario. Just be a good neighbor, pay your rent, keep a nice boat and you'll be fine?
I know you can liveaboard on the coast of GA- but the saltwater would be maintenance galore.
Thanks for the help.
Hey George!! We love Lake Lanier too and love spending time up here.
The rules seem a little vague, and we get the feeling these rules are designed to protect bodies of water that empty into the ocean. We actually purchased our houseboat from someone who lived on it full time. We also know of people in our marina who live on their houseboats full time as well. I agree that if you keep a clean boat, pump out, pay your rent etc. you should be able to live aboard your boat (on Lanier). Seems to be loosely enforced, if at all.
Great videos. Can you live full time on a houseboat at lake Lanier?
So glad you like our videos, Zach! As far as we know, you can live full time on a houseboat on Lake Lanier. Though, it may vary based on which marina you have your houseboat. We know several liveaboards around the lake. We don't do full time, though.
Need to cycle the water in the tanks so the water doesn’t get stagnant
Thank you for the tip! This is very helpful. We usually use the water in our tanks during the winter and when we are away from the dock, which helps keep it fresh. Do you have a recommendation on how often to cycle the water in our tanks if we aren’t using it during the winter or away from our dock?
@@DeepHouseboatLife check with water company or similar source
Thank you, we will do that! We’re not too far from Gainesville and will check with them.
Gorgeous boat. What’s the interior width? Designing mine now and your layout is great.
Thank you for watching and the kind words. Our houseboat is 16 feet wide. Will this be the first houseboat you design?
@@DeepHouseboatLife yes. Nothing like yours though. 14’ by 30’ on 4 pontoons
How do you empty the grey and black waste tanks?
Hey Joey - that's a great question. We actually don't have a grey water tank, as the water from our showers and sinks just goes into the lake. Though, we do have a black water tank. We have that pumped out at least once per month with the marina's pump out boat. We don't do that ourselves, thank goodness 😆 . Check out the below video where we talk about our toilet and black water system, and let us know what other questions you have.
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just curious.. at 2:18 it looks like a propane tank next to batteries in an enclosed space...is that so? does the tank have a place to vent in the event of a leak? let's not even talk about a leak combined with a spark .. or, maybe i am not seeing the entire picture. jt
Hey Jason - appreciate your observation. Those are propane tanks, and are empty. We have relocated those propane tanks to a location off our houseboat, since filming this video. This is where the previous owner was storing them, and we thought the same as you…not a great idea! That area is vented, though. Thanks for watching our video! We truly do appreciate it.
what made you pick a 80 foot ?
When looking for our houseboat, we wanted a room for our daughter, Clare, and a guest stateroom for our extended family and friends. We also preferred a salon with enough space for a pullout couch. We looked at boats between 68-88 feet that fit this criteria, and this particular houseboat had been taken care of really well. We opted for the 80 foot because it had fewer things for us to fix after purchasing. Think we would have still been very happy with a smaller houseboat, especially if it was just the two of us. 65 feet was the minimum we were looking at for our little family. Thank you for watching!
I would be absolutely terrified to live in a house boat with a 10 month old. What about when baby starts walking? I know they probably have great safety protocols but still that is so so scary
We completely agree it is scary, and we make sure to stay scared about it so we pay attention. Life jackets, gates, and sliding doors that are difficult for even adults to open have helped. It’s a constant process of reevaluating at each new stage with her to make sure our boat is safe and implementing what we need, similar with a land house. The stakes are higher, though, with the water right there. We have an agreement with each other that if it no longer suits our family because of where Clare is at in life, we will just sell the houseboat and move on. Agree, it is scary!
How far could you travel in that boat?
In theory, we can go as far as our fuel tanks will take us (about 280 gallons and we usually only travel at 6-7 mph). If we can refuel, then we can keep going. We’re on a lake that is landlocked, so we can travel from one end of the lake to the other 😃
@@DeepHouseboatLife can you tow it to the ocean and use it there?
@@guitarlearningtoplay we could hire a company to help us tow it to the ocean, but it’s very expensive to do that. So we just keep our houseboat on the same lake. There are smaller houseboats out there that are “trailerable houseboats” and a lot less expensive to move, especially on your own.
@@DeepHouseboatLife Would houseboats handle the ocean current though? Are there some made with stronger engines designed for the ocean. I how the size of yours houseboat
@@guitarlearningtoplay the hull design of your more traditional houseboat isn’t suitable for navigating ocean waves and currents. Also, the salt water would create havoc on the aluminum hull and the outdrives. If you’re thinking about a boat that can handle the ocean environment, and is also livable and spacious, check out trawlers.