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Houseboat OPERATING BASICS: How To Launch, Drive, And Dock A Houseboat 

Deep Houseboat Life
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Have you ever wanted to learn how to launch, drive, and dock a houseboat, and better manage your boat while at the helm? In this week’s Deep Houseboat Life video, we’ll show you an actual hands-on experience of what it’s like piloting a houseboat at the helm and how we get our houseboat around Lake Lanier. Whether it's going for a cruise or going out to the islands, we'll show you how we get ready to leave the dock, then actually leaving and coming back in to the dock. We’ll also share with you some houseboat operating basics to help ensure you know how to drive a houseboat.
Our video will take you through the pre-launch checklist of items to handle before leaving the dock and beginning houseboat piloting. We’ll also share three important houseboat driving tips to keep in mind as you’re operating a houseboat. Check this video out, especially if you’re driving a houseboat for the first time, and if you want to see if Trey hits anything as he attempts to dock our Lake Lanier houseboat!
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🕘Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
0:57 - Houseboat pre-launch checklist
4:02 - Houseboat launch
5:36 - Houseboat drive
6:24 - Houseboat dock
9:01 - Thank you!
All music from Epidemic Sound, appearing in below order:
1. You Know It Too (Da Sein)
2. Up Here (Blue Steel)
3. You Know It Too (Da Sein)
4. The Summer (Sebastian Winskog)
5. Bonzai (Giants’ Nest)
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28 май 2024

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@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife 2 года назад
Houseboat captains...driving with thrusters or no thrusters? How do you prefer to pilot your houseboat? Let us know in the comments 👇.
@aprilkitchens7576
@aprilkitchens7576 2 года назад
WOW...... always knew you were a safe driver but you just demonstrated what a fabulous boat captain you are! Your docking debut was flawless!!
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife 2 года назад
Now we just gotta teach Jessie how to do all of this, too!
@Bigrignohio
@Bigrignohio 2 года назад
Thank you for this. Very informative. As someone who has absolutely no powered boating experience, but considering the purchase of a houseboat, this answers a lot of questions.
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife 2 года назад
We are so glad to hear this video was helpful! Let us know if you still have any unanswered questions. We are happy to help wherever we can. Have a great rest of the week!
@tuner066
@tuner066 Год назад
This is very informative thank you. Me and my wife are thinking of buying a houseboat as our permanent home.
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife Год назад
Hey Robert! Thanks for watching our video. Awesome that you and your wife are thinking of buying a houseboat. We love ours and feel so lucky to have it. Let us know if you have any questions as you are looking around for a houseboat.
@tuner066
@tuner066 Год назад
Speaking of questions. Do you guys have any issues with freeloaders meaning mice or rats.
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife Год назад
@@tuner066 we've never seen any mice or rats on our houseboat, luckily. We do have to watch out for roaches, though. That's pretty typical for where we are in Georgia. Overall, we don't have many unwanted bug and vermin guests on our houseboat
@andrewwyman3675
@andrewwyman3675 2 года назад
Great technique. Thanks for the tips!
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife Год назад
So glad you liked it!
@lebenergy247
@lebenergy247 Год назад
THanks so much
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife Год назад
Glad you enjoyed the video!
@donacardenasHomes
@donacardenasHomes 2 года назад
👏🏼 great job❣️. It’s always a little intimidating coming back in. Sometimes that wind picks up right when you are trying to dock, and dang that’s hard. So funny question, do you ask people not to talk while your docking so you can 🤓see? 😂
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife 2 года назад
Thank you! Ha ha my wife usually tries to keep our daughter and dog quiet so I can concentrate on docking...probably so I can see better. Funny how that makes a difference. And the wind can really throw things off when docking. We try to dock in the mornings, like after we've spent the weekened houseboat camping away from the marina, because it seems to be less windy at that time. Though, the weather can change fast. Luckily we have thrusters to help with that!
@mikefitzpatrick5209
@mikefitzpatrick5209 Год назад
I thought you had thrusters on your boat. maybe this video was done before thrusters. an update with thrusters would be great. Great video overall, thank you for taking the time
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife Год назад
Hey Mike! You are right that we do have thrusters on our houseboat. We actually did have them at the time of this video, but we ended up not using them because it wasn't a very windy day. That's a great idea to do an update video specifically for when we're using our thrusters. Thank you for the suggestion
@josephbattaglia3690
@josephbattaglia3690 Год назад
Does the boat stay sifficiently warm in the winter time?
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife Год назад
It sure does, at least where we are in Georgia. Never really gets too cold for too long in the winters here. Our houseboat has a regular HVAC like a "land home," so we just make sure the heater is running on our houseboat when we are there. We also have a small fireplace that's essentially a space heater to help heat the salon, if needed. We also use a bilge heater from Xtreme Heaters to keep the engine compartment warm.
@josephbattaglia3690
@josephbattaglia3690 Год назад
@@DeepHouseboatLife Pretty neat. Thank you
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife Год назад
@@josephbattaglia3690 you are very welcome!
@coachjennbailey9364
@coachjennbailey9364 2 года назад
TY!
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife 2 года назад
You are very welcome! Thank you for watching 😀. Hope it was helpful.
@garygerard4290
@garygerard4290 2 года назад
Those are Very Nice docks, with each boat having its own protected spot. I am in northern California and the houseboats are side by side, 'between 2 walkways. There is enough room for 'fenders' on each boat then maybe 2' between the fenders - o no! Your boat is Huge - Shasta boat size limit is 15 x 56. And if you've heard of the dry spell we're having out here - it's True. The lake is loosing 6" of water a day, which is normal, but no rain to refill means it's not replenishing. The water level is 170' below the dam - DAM! When full there is 365 miles of shorline - real nice lake but it's depressing to see so much 'beach' ha ha ha keep on boatin'
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife 2 года назад
Hey Gary thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. We love our dock and we were lucky to get an open spot. We like having the extra slip length and width because it makes docking a bit easier, especially on a windy day. We have seen the news about the drought in Northern California and it look really bad. I hope that y'all get some rain, and an abundance of snow this winter. Happy boating and stay safe!
@corvetteguy1980
@corvetteguy1980 2 года назад
What size engines? 454s and are they fuel injection?
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife 2 года назад
Hello and thank you for watching. They are 5.0 liter and fuel injected. With this hull design, a larger engine will just consume more fuel and doesn’t make the boat go any faster.
@kiko69
@kiko69 2 года назад
What are the steps in obtaining a captain’s license?
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife 2 года назад
Thank you for your question, Francisco! Since we’re just using our houseboat as a pleasure craft, we actually don’t need a captain’s license to operate our houseboat. Believe it or not. If we start taking people out on our houseboat as a business, then we would need a captains license. In order to get a captain’s license, we would need to demonstrate a certain number of hours operating our houseboat to the US Coast Guard, then we would also have to pass a test. That’s our loose understanding of the requirements. Hope this helps!
@kiko69
@kiko69 2 года назад
@@DeepHouseboatLife That’s great!Keep on sailing.
@Heartlandrodcustom
@Heartlandrodcustom 2 года назад
What kind of draft does a big boat like that have? I'm thinning of buying one and my local lake has a lot of shallow areas.
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife 2 года назад
Hey! Thank you for watching! Our houseboat probably pulls just a few feet of draft. It has a flat bottom barge style hull. The outdrives from the rear probably add another foot to that. So all together, about 3 feet of draft. That’s typical of houseboats like ours. Hope this helps!
@robertnelson980
@robertnelson980 Год назад
I’ve watched this and the episode about going for fuel. Neither of these mentioned using thrusters. It appeared you have them. As seen when you disconnected your water. I also noticed you maneuvering the boat side ways at the fuel dock. Do you have thrusters and we’re you using them? Just observing and learning. Thanks for the videos.
@robertnelson980
@robertnelson980 Год назад
Now I go and read the comments I see this question has already been answered 🙄 Sorry for the repeat.
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife Год назад
Hey Robert! No need a apologize these are all great questions. We do have thrusters and we use them when needed. However, if there is zero wind, we do like to maneuver without them as practice should they ever fail. Hope this answers your question and have a great week!
@chanceopp6848
@chanceopp6848 2 года назад
You forgot one thing.....Always have someone on the dock or shore to yell at you for no reason.
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife 2 года назад
Bahahaha glad I wasn’t drinking a beer while reading this comment because I would have spit it out laughing 🤣. Luckily when we filmed this, the people on the dock were helpful in making sure we didn’t hit anything. Something about boat people though, we love to critique other boaters😆
@sdarnell72
@sdarnell72 2 года назад
Your on dock 9, I your neighbor on dock 8.
@DeepHouseboatLife
@DeepHouseboatLife 2 года назад
Hey neighbor!!! It’s so nice to meet you, Shana. Hopefully we will see you in person sometime, and thank you so much for watching our video!
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