Author: The Floating Residence
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A New Maine Law
A new Maine law banning nonwater-dependent floating structures on inland waterways is forcing owners Dan and Michelle Oram to remove their custom-built floating camp from the Androscoggin River.A new Maine law banning nonwater-dependent floating structures on inland waterways is forcing a family to remove their floating camp from the Androscoggin River. TOPSHAM, Maine — Terry…
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Solar Yachts
Electric boats and liveaboard yachts are gaining popularity across Europe’s lakes and rivers, but limited charging infrastructure remains a major challenge. Meet Arek, who is designing and building modern liveaboard SolarYachts at his shipyard in Berlin-Brandenburg. Living on the water aboard his own 140 sqm SolarYacht, the founder and his team took on the infrastructure…
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Buying a Boat?
Watch these videos by Em and Nick for an inside look as to what is entailed, the learning curve, and true cost of ownership.
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Houseboat instead of a Flat
Alternative Houses brings us this video. Would you swap a standard London flat for a £300000 custom-designed widebeam boat? Take a full tour of Nimue, a luxury 60ft widebeam houseboat moored in London’s sunny Limehouse Marina, to discover what boat life in the city really costs. Since filming this video, Grace has decided to let…
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The Anchor That Gets a Ticket, The Anchor That Gets Towed
What Two Kinds of Enforcement Reveal About Who Gets to Stay Between 2021 and August 2026, the Richardson Bay Regional Agency and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission ran a five-year program to clear a floating community from a California anchorage. The stated justification was ecological: anchor chains and moorings were damaging Posidonia-adjacent…
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Same Question, Different Currency
What Superyacht Liveaboards and Marina Liveaboards Are Actually Buying A recent Robb Report feature carried a headline that will read, to most people, as a curiosity about the ultra-wealthy: owners are turning their superyachts into full-time homes. Gabe Newell has been living aboard the 364-foot Leviathan since 2021. A Majesty 112 owner runs a business…
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The Missing Metric
Discover the missing metric in Alternative Housing: Occupancy Durability. Owning the home is not the same as owning the right to stay. Housing is usually measured in familiar ways. Price per square foot. Mortgage rates. Rent burden. Inventory. Appreciation. Insurance. Taxes. For unconventional housing, we add another set of metrics: mobility, operating cost, energy independence,…
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One Word, Two Systems
What 384 Feet of Yacht in Venice Reveals About Living on the Water The Floating Residence | Editorial Analysis | July 2026 On July 17, roughly three hundred Venetians marched toward Riva dei Sette Martiri to protest a boat. Not boats generally — one boat. The Boardwalk, a 384-foot Lürssen delivered in May to Tilman…
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