Markel just announced the launch of a new insurance program that will cover houseboats up to 26 feet in length. With more and more Americans now actually living on house boats, this represents a new and alternative option to insuring their floating vacation homes (house boats).

This includes other watercraft, but is more needed in the houseboat arena. The new program boasts competitive rates and coverage for a new houseboats, runabout, a personal watercraft, an airboat, a 100 MPH performance boat and anything in between — as long as it is less than 27 feet long.

Markel Boats offers some of the best coverage in the marketplace, including Replacement Cost coverage, Diminishing Deductibles, stand-alone Pollution, Wreck Removal as well as other options such as Primary Fishing and Boat Lift coverage. Interested? Read the rest of this entry »

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Yarmouth Coastguard receives a distress call from a houseboat reporting they had collided with a commercial “ship”. The 45′ houseboat had just two people on board and managed to hit a 4,000 ton tanker!

Coastguard rescued the 2 people on the houseboat, who luckily were unharmed — of course the men on the 4,000 ton tanker were also okay!

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In Ft Lauderdale a proposal to build a 15-Story ‘Houseboat Condo’ has alarmed its local populus. If approved, this hightech, highpriced “houseboat” would literally change the skyline of Ft Lauderdale.
 

Many residents oppose the 15-story marina houseboat. They see it as a monster that would blot out their winter sun. The Harborage Club won approval from Fort Lauderdale’s Planning and Zoning Board to move forward on this project despite it being rejected by the city planners.
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