Last night we enjoyed a lovely Friday evening with a potluck in the houseboat, together with Peter's son Robin and his wife Alexandra. We had a lovely evening with blue sky, good food and lots of talk and laughter.
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What is it like to live on a boat in winter? We get this question from time to time. Most people wonder if it is cold to live in a houseboat, or perhaps if it is damp. Or they wonder if the docks are slippery. We can promise that there is no need for us to worry! But of course, winter comes with some challenges.
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I know I almost promised a report from Greece today, but it will not be. Peter of course has lots to tell from his trip to Greece, but that will come next week. What happened in our houseboat marina yesterday is too dramatic not to be told. I woke up early to strange noises ... and soon realised that this morning we were moored with no connection to land.
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In the summer of 2014, we lifted the entire houseboat on land and did a complete renovation that included new construction of the entire upper floor, new panelling everywhere and a new balcony floor on the deck. But of course a houseboat requires maintenance! We've decided that it's best to do a little each year, and this year it was time to paint the deck and lining.
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You have to maintain a houseboat just like you maintain a house. We raised the boat on land in 2014 and rebuilt and renovated most of it then, but there will always be things that need to be fixed. Right now we actually had not thought to fix with the boat, considering that we are busy getting the motorhome ready for departure at midsummer. But then there was one thing that absolutely must fixed ...
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Have you seen the TV series Mother Goose? Did you realise that it is partly set here in our marina? Apparently there will be another season, because the film crew has been here again to shoot Mother Goose.
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A houseboat is like a house. Or maybe like a boat. It requires maintenance. We lifted and renovated the entire boat in the summer of 2014. But of course there are still things that need to be fixed, continuously. Now it was time to change some things that we did not change last time, and to fix various water leaks. The toilet leaked water, the kitchen tap leaked water and then we found water ... in the hull!
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Yesterday, I showed pictures of our houseboat with a light covering of snow. Shortly afterwards, it arrived. real winter and struck, with snow chaos in Stockholm. We woke up with the houseboat lying at an angle in the water and it was actually quite nice to have something else to think about than, well you know ... that election.
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Yesterday you could read our post about the first renovation of the houseboat - what we did while the boat was still in the water. Today is the continuation. Here's what happened when we lifted the boat onto land and started to work on the real challenges.
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If you've been following our blog for a few years, you probably remember when we bought and renovated our houseboat. It was an absolutely hysterical job we embarked on, and in retrospect it seems almost unlikely that we managed to complete it. Here's a little summary of the first part of the renovation - the one we did while the boat was still in the water.
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