40 Foot Houseboat
Introducing The ‘Float-A-Home 40’ – A Tiny-Home Alternative
With marinas increasingly not allowing floating homes and houseboats, it’s becoming harder and harder to find a place for your floating tiny-home. If it’s not a “boat” it’s not welcome. That’s where the Float-A-Home 40 comes in. It actually is a boat that will blend right in. It takes the best from three worlds: It borrows from the Tiny-Home movement, RV Boondockers, and the massively popular Houseboats of the 70’s from companies like Whitcraft, Alcan, and Cruise-A-Home’s popular Corsair 40.
As a designer with 30 years of Live-Aboard experience I’ve brought everything I’ve learned over the decades of waterborne living into this project. If I had to start all over again this is exactly the boat I’d build. Designed with three things in mind: It has to be easy to build by anyone, comparatively cheaper than an equivalent yacht, and provide a comfortable Tiny-Home-style living space. The interior is all one level so fitting-out is a lot easier to build than a traditional yacht and can be done using RV / Tiny-Home materials and techniques. You could even use Home Depot or Ikea stock bedroom and kitchen components etc. There’s plenty of space up top for a large canopy-mounted Solar Array, for those with “off-grid” sensibilities as well.
Pre-cut kits can be shipped in a 20 foot shipping container that you can use as a workshop while building and a tiny home afterward. Or we can license you to use the CNC Cutting files and have it cut locally to save you shipping costs.
THE HULL is a brand new creation designed from the ground up with house-boat performance in mind. She has extra wide lifting chine flats to help get her on plane easily and a pronounced & curvy 1° rocker for enhanced efficiency at displacement speeds. So whatever speed and power level you’s like she’s comfortable and easily driven. Just as at home as a displacement lugger or a mid-speed planing boat.
Outboard power means you can start with cheaper or used outboard motors and then re-power later when funds allow.
Why spend the same amount of money and end up stuck tied to a dock forever, parked in mom’s backyard in a tiny home, or have pontoon ‘boat’ capable of only floating around the bay or lake when for the same effort and cost of you can cruise the coastline, the Great Lakes, or the Intracoastal Waterway to name just a few. (And be welcomed at any marina!).
The Float-A-Home 40: It needs no land, has a 12 foot 3.6m width, and is all aluminum for incredibly long life. Aluminum is low-maintenance and 100% recyclable for a green footprint. In fact most aluminum is made from recycled materials. And yes it can be built in a backyard because it’s under the 14 foot maximum road width.
This is a new design in our catalog and will be completed to accommodate interested builders. Contact Us to enquire about completion dates and to let us know this design interests you.
