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What, exactly, does our nation’s most famous houseboater really want?

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2022

Scotty, using Jerry's car, would locate the houseboater at the pier.

From The Electronic Mind Reader by Blaine, John

That word "harbour" comes to mean a good deal to the houseboater who attempts to make a cruiser of his unseaworthy, lubberly craft.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.

Then too the houseboater is usually quite a landlubber after all; so that even if the boat is strong enough to meet an angry sea, the owner's stomach is not.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.

Battle of Point Pleasant—The story of Gallipolis—Rosebud—Huntington—The genesis of a houseboater.

From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Thwaites, Reuben Gold