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Everyone loves the boater home
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Good times, good energy, good fun. Yeah, it's always good times. 270 miles from the sea on a dusty Nevada road
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the last thing you'd expect to see is a boat. But John is the proud owner of this boater home
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a half-boat, half-band hybrid. It's really convenient. It's fun. It's unique. It's just exactly like an RV, but it floats. It's amazing. Features of the
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boater home just besides the fact it's a boat and a van. It's an RV, basically. It's a floating
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RV with a few extra bells and whistles that I put into it. Only 21 of these unique vehicles exist
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having been built in the 80s and based on a Ford Econnelline van. This boater home has been in
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John's family since they're originally created. 10 years old when my dad called my mom and said
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bring the kids outside and come see when I'm coming home in. So we on the street and here comes this boater home coming around the corner It was so big and it was all white at the time and I didn know what the heck it was He saw it in Popular Science Magazine in the early 80s and he like I gotta have that
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About right here is where they chop the van off and then the rest is fiberglass back with the seamless boat connection
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Custom Swindek, Alpha Drive, ladder, underwater lighting gives a good about 35 foot sprawl of blue
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foot sprawl of blue or white or mixed very pretty. So this is the boater home. It's the inside
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Right here we got our kitchen counter. Our stove, AC unit, conventional oven, microwave
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Right here's a fridge, dining table area. This goes down, things pull out and makes a bed nice comfortable for two people
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This is the bathroom and shower. Almost probably 75% of the boaterhomes are really
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I've done a little bit of work to it made it a little bigger inside a little more roomy
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But the design of what the guy laid out is pretty much original and then more little hangout area two couches
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These fold together make the bed so it it bigger than king this way Captain chair helm This is where I drive
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So this is my gauge. I got my fuel, my trim, miles per hour
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my stereo, my charger, train horn button. You don't have to tow a boat with your RV
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and then back the boat in and do all that trailer work. It's really a one-man program
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I can do it all by myself, nice and easy. nice and easy. Never have to get wet. That's a great part
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It's been all over the country with my dad. Personally, I've taken it to California, Dumont Sand Dunes
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camping it there, Lake Havasu, Caledene Island. We're hitting Lake Powell this year, hopefully
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Incredibly John has also come into possession of a second boater home
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Almost 10 years ago, I found another boater home online. The guy was asking almost 30 grand for it
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I'm like, okay, let's fly down and check it out. And this thing was not at all what he described
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It should have almost been in a junkyard. So ended up picking it up for around 11 grand
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It's a big project ahead of me, but I'm excited about it. I going to completely remodel it and update it make it basically a 2020 It got to Mercury 275 Oterado supercharged with shorty drives Got to finally test it a couple weeks ago after all those
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years of putting money into it. And yeah, she's pushing 70. So this one's actually going to have
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a whole other seating arena up there. So it's going to be a double-decker. So I'll be able to drive up
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top as well as below. I wanted to be a smart boat. Before I get to the launch ramp, I could
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on my phone turn the AC on, get it all the updated technology in the 80s
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these boats. First one's definitely my dad's. It always will be and it's a family heirloom
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This one's a blank slate complete and I get to build it from the ground up
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And it's not just used as a boat, home and vehicle. It's also a unique party venue
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Go straight from here, straight to the strip and then party on the strip with everyone in it like
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limousine. Party rolling. I don't plan none of this, I swear
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So it's like a party bus, boat, RV. It's amazing. Check it out
