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There are lot of riverboats and houseboats which you can rent but for people already driving around on campervans or RV's there should be a service where you can hire a basic barge fitted with plumbing, 12 V DC, 110/220 V AC hookups for your RV.
You just drive your RV into the barge, secure the vehicle
with chains or ropes and connect the other hookups.
Barge would be fitted with required maps, GPS, EBIRB, Marine radio, life jackets etc.
After half an hour introduction to the operation and local condition you motor away on the river or lake.
Rental fee of these barges would be much cheaper than fully fitted houseboats. And saves the problem of parking our RV, unpacking and stocking as you would have everything you need with you.
The barge would have two motors and steering would be done at cabin situated on the left, I think, as far as I know water crafts internationally have giveaway rules like cars driving on the right side of the road?
Yarr vee
http://www.terrawind.com/
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 17 2006]
Self Skippered Barge
http://images.googl...en%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG
Similar concept but drive in your van or RV [Pellepeloton, Sep 18 2006]
Floating House
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4852739/
For [gtoal] - not exactly as described, but... [neutrinos_shadow, May 24 2007]
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Very cool. I would like to see an amphibious RV as well. |
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<later edit> I should have guessed. [link] |
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Aren't barges typically unpowered? |
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This barge would have a suitable motor to have enough power to go up the slow river or towards headwind but not too fast to be a nuisance to other boaties.
As I think there is nothing like this yet I thought barge would be best word to describe the idea? Maybe motorised barge. And it woud have anchors as well to park overnight to some quiet bay or beach. |
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It would be very slick if you could steer the barge from the drivers seat of your RV. You could park on plates that turned when you turned the steering wheel. Maybe. That would save on space as well since you would not need a barge cabin. |
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Have the RV sit on plates for all wheels and have the RV power the propellers through the wheels' motion plus the steering thing. Be sure to chain the RV to the barge first though... |
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Possibly, but if there was a 4WD or front wheel drive RV onboard?
Also for the reliability barge having own motor would be better idea as this way it does not matter what sort of RV is on board. Could even be a caravan or a tent.
Maybe paddle wheels could be connected to driving wheels? |
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There is a small barge you can buy that looks like a floating caravan. It has a matching trailer. When you put it on the trailer it looks like a caravan too and can be used as such. |
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//Aren't barges typically unpowered// |
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An unpowered British canal barge is called a "butty". |
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Therfore, the barge is powered. The butty is another, unpowered barge that is towed behind it. |
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The barge would have a steering cabin and optional wireless remote control for steering. This remote would be handy for single handed operation when landing to a jetty or with other critical moves. |
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"Honey! We are headed for a waterfall, where did you leave the remote?" |
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"I don't know, Dear? You had it last, remember when we stopped at the pub." |
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"You had it at the pub, didn't you?" |
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"AAAAAAAAaaaaarrrrrgghhh...." |
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Portable remote is doubling the steering on the cockpit(?) which would be on the left side of the barge. |
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I hate the idea of driving the barge from the inside of the RV. Having and indoor remote control might be good for short navigational manuvers late at night or early in the morning if you want to rotate the barge to see the sun rise from the side window or if it is raining and you want a different view from the cabin without having to go outside. But essentially when an RV is parked and set up, nobody wants to sit behind the driver's seat unless its turned around to face the other "living" areas in the rear. |
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I remember reading about a wonderful design of a house (this was about 20 years ago) designed to float in a flood. There were rings on each corner with what were basically telegraph poles through them, so that as the water rose, so did the house. Power, water, gas etc was on flexible piping that also moved with the house. The designer (in the US) was unable to build it because such homes fell foul of some building regulation that meant they could never be built. :-( |
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I'ld love to find a reference to this if anyone remembers it. |
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