A woman who will be building a kayak with me gave me a tour of her housboat community in Sausalito. I took some photos of the houseboats and a few of the rowboats docked near the houseboats. The nice thing about a rowboat next to a houseboat is that in the morning you can get some exercise without going to the gym.
Not much to comment about here other than that the houseboat community seems to have arisen sometime in the 60's. Some notable folks have lived on housboats in Sausalito, among them, Alan Watts, a popularizer of Asian religions and more recently, Steward Brand, publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. All these names used to be household words back in the seventies. More recent arrivals to this world may have to google them. So without further ado, photos of houseboats --
One more thing. I should mention that there are several groupings of houseboats in Sausalito and this is just one of them.
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| Some housboats are boats. This one used to be the Mare Island ferry. |
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| Some houseboats like this one have floats. |
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| The quonset hut. |
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| And this one would be at home in town with a lawn out front. |
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| And this one looks like a tugboat expansion |
And some rowboats
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| This is a model that students build in a class. Each student gets to take home their model. And all students also work on the full size boat pictured below. I assume they get a ride in it when it's done. |
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| This pram was just sitting there at a boatshop. |
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| The boats above are famous designs whose names I was told but promptly forgot. But to my credit, I recognized the names. You would probably as well.
This one just looked bright and cheerful.
And one more cheerful set and then we have to go. |
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