Houseboat for a Bug-Out-Hideout?

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Originally Posted by KLF I've wanted it ever since I saw McGyver lived in one. But it just won't work here, because a better part of the year you're immobile and people can reach you by walking... and that's least of the problems during winter.

Duncan McLeod, too ... I think houseboats were a Cool Thing in the 1980s.

FWIW, I've been on a large lake (Powell) in a 25ft houseboat during a moderate windstorm. It was really scary. A similar size boat in the same area foundered and flipped and the occupants died.

I've also been on a few boats that had sudden mechanical failures, requiring a tow to shore.

Boats break regularly, and in unexpected ways. This is even more true if the boat in question is a complicated craft like a houseboat, which has much more to go wrong than just the engine.

They're more vulnerable to the weather than most people imagine.

They're fuel hogs unless you have a sail boat, and sail boats have their own issues.

House boats (the pontoon kind) are typically rather slow -- you could be caught by bad guys with a 5hp putt putt john boat.

If the water levels change while you're tied to shore, you could end up beached. Always fun getting a boat the size and weight of an motor home loose after the water level dropped a couple feet. Get your shovels out ...

Boats, particularly slow moving boats, are easy targets for anyone with a rifle if they're out on open water. People on shore could take you out before you could get out of range.

Now, the suggestion upthread for a little aluminum boat as a BOV. You can haul quite a bit in a smallish boat, they're easy to transport, they're fast, and you can pull them up onto shore and conceal them in the bushes.

If I was using an aluminum boat as BOV (not in the card in Arizona LOL) I'd pack a wall tent and tent stove, and some camo netting.

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Houseboat for a Bug-Out-Hideout?