Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Waterborne Wednesday: Boxy house boat

Canadian House Boat

OK, this isn't a beauty this week - a houseboat found on the river that runs through Toronto Island

While not an obvious choice for a model, I can see a good reason to have a go. These things are moved using tugboats or workboats so one would be a real eyecatcher in model form on the lake. 

Construction wouldn't be hard. There are plenty of plans, and it's all squares and boxes. 

I wonder what it's like to live in one. I'm thinking that moving around the upper story must make the vessel wobble about a bit. Do you get used to it, or is there ballast I'm not aware of for stability? 


1 comment:

Colin said...

The motion from moving about would be the least of your worries. In anything more than a breeze that thing is going to be lively as all the superstructure will act like a massive sail.