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Yes please more barges, love them as well as some of the new replica ones! Built one myself and my that. was a steep learning curve.

Oh holy shit! My dream boat!

I find it a verry good idea to rebuild a former cargo boat intoo a big living boat. Because in Holland we have lots of waterways and lakes,so you can live on the water in a perfect boat !!! There are a lot of fishingboats now to buy because of the fishing problems we have in Holland. Now you can allso buy an old big fishing boat and transform it in a big yacht !!!

I'd ship it here to America and spend the rest of my life cruising the river system in middle America. From Minneapolis to NOLA, Mobile to Pittsburgh, And the Great Lakes to Okeechobee!

I love that. Perfect for living on, but capable of little trips out

This boat would feel like an actual home! This is more my style than the modern yachts. This would feel a bit more functional AND homey.

its been a dream of mine now, a few years to revive one of these old steel hull ships. renovate it into a floating hotel. i had got a ship in 2019 but with the struggles of covid, i had to give up on the Canadian coastguard vessel. one day.. mark my words fam

I own one too! Currently renovating (almost done). Was much fun to watch! If anyone has any questions about these types of ships in general I would be happy to answer!

lovely & fantastic boat!! beautifully crafted and refined..

Absolutely stunning!

Great tour, amazing liveaboard!

Love this boat. Beautiful

Awesome yacht. I am considering the great circle route in the US. NY- Chicago - New Orleans- NY. This has some open passages / great lakes and lots of locks and canals. This looks to be a fantastic vessel for such a trip. Dare to dream.

Man this thing is just massive. For the price you couldn't get a house no where near this size for the same price. This is an outstanding deal for a live aboard. The day head looks like an old gas station bathroom. You know the ones that had the hand drying rag that kinda ran a loop through a metal hanging box. Same utilitarian colors & all 😂. Man this boat is just so awesome! I love the wheel house with it's old nostalgia look. I'm a big fan of the old wood look. You'll never be room poor on this boat. I could definitely see this cruising the intracoastal on the east & Gulf Coast. Making shore stops in several places like Savannah, Charleston, Mobile, & St. Augustine just to name a few. Me being from Savannah I could definitely see this docked up somewhere close to River St in downtown Savannah.

This would be a fine vessel to travel along the coast of the British isles, coastal Europe, Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean all along the entire shores of Europe and North Africa.

Absolutely love the master suite!

Fabulous live-aboard. Might be certain limitations, but overall? Great!

Love your style of presenting.

Definitely unique.

This is a great floating home, come inland waterway cruising houseboat too, more of these please

Beautiful home on the water.

Simply lovely vessel, it would be awesome to have and cruise, Cheers!

Lovely, I wish it were my home.

The office would make a great sewing and craft room

wow 👏🏾 love this type of content

Yes more boats like this but maybe in the 30’-60’ range?! Great site👍✌️🖖

That's not a boat, it's a small ship. What a massive amount of space, the wallpaper would have to go, however.

Beautifully laid out, i would personally change the current office into a massive pantry with cold storage and convert the studio into an office, lay at least 5000watts of solar panels on that roof with a 10kva lithium battery bank and a water maker/purifier. That crane would be handy for a small jetski on the roof too. Wouldnt set foot on land for months ...

John, I think that would be a great small river boat to Charter to guests. You could use all four of the cabins as guest cabins and change the aft efficiency into a married couple as captain and stewardess /cooks cabin. Maybe find some space to put a third crew member on to act as stewardess to maintain laundry and cleaning duties. Obviously, cabin size would dictate the cost of the cruise.

Excellent video, and a beautiful vessel. The selling price seems to be very good. I'd keep the study as well. The studio offers great potential. Love it. Would like to see more of these type of boats. 10\10.

That's a nice vessel John, thanks for the video ⚓

Beautiful

I want it, bring it across through the Panama Canal and up to my property in Baja, Sea of Cortez.

Lovely. I wish I could buy this boat.

From the price point, it seems very logic to have this one. Boat house that you can move anywhere you want to go. Beside all of that, it seems ver spacious to me, more bigger than a lot of city center houses and flats😂

That looks like the the perfect boat to do the canals in Holland or France .

I see in this, a boat with a lot of potential. I would gut it and do a major refit to the interior spaces. I'd remove walls and make some of those small rooms into lovely suites. Replace the antique in the engine room and put in a pony engine through hooked up to a common gearbox. Put in newer and more refrigeration. Update the galley and lots more. As it sits, I think it would make a lovely floating museum of comforts imagined in the 1950s.

interesting ship. Well presented.

Seen her advertised and thought she was definitely in “best of breed” - but had been put off a bit as brokers only listed her “max air” at the 4m… thought she’d be too high for most French waterways… thanks for new info!

This video is fantastic, I'm very new to the boat world , I'm currently in the market with a huge budget and didn't even think about this type of vessel 🤓 . Keep doing this videos 🎉great work

Lovely

Live aboard anchorages and marinas are rare these days.

I like it👍🏽.

Ok this one is much better then that man cave one you showed. This one I can get the asking price for makes sense. The other one needed like 100k in work on it. This is like an actual house with the amount of space it has. Like you get so much more space to play with converting old cargo boats.

Beautiful boat however, all that glass worriers me in rough weather situations. But, maybe it’s not glass ?

Hi, this boat looks beautiful. May I possibly ask how much this lovely costs or could you steer me in the right direction to ask the person this question. Take care and blessings.

Built in 1951? What was its original purpose? Presumably cargo carrying. When was it initially converted to a pleasure vessel? And by whom? I assume this in not a blue water vessel but confined to harbor and inland waterways, or maybe coastal cruising as well. I love the aft cabin. There are so many possibilities...

Luv it! I’m assuming it is capable of navigating the channel so it can come to the UK, or is it an EU only inland vessel?

A nice live aboard that in its current form I would not consider taking it to sea. As it would end up a serious mess below decks, looking as if someone had come aboard and trashed it! The sea does not forgive! But as a static live aboard all very nice, and a cheap way 'relatively' of having a base in one of many UK cities and towns with water access and moorings.

very pretty. cannot imagine the upkeep costs. Hw much fuel to push that much steel down the road?

Might be a neat greater-looper

Beautiful, how much

What category is this Barge?

Nice tub. Probably expensive to have a space in a marina.

That’s wild. I don’t know a lot about boats, but is that sort of like a converted barge or something?

No Ginny?great vlog ❤

Nice but a little too long for me. Docking fees and maneuvering prohibitive. JIM😘

How do the lamps not fall over in the bedroom, they don't have camping hanging lights. And more secured baskets so stuff don't fall over.

I'd be worried about a steel hull that old. Even with regular maintenance, it could've rusted away significantly during the 73 years it's been on the water.

How on earth do you get the motor out should you need to replace it

well that is a very nice ship barge ,. if i lived in europe id buy her in a heart beat,my dogs and i would love it. looks like they would have a lot of room to run around. and be safe. me? not so much lol i have a tendency to fall overboard a lot. trip and yell out oh crap not again!. maybe id better not buy her lol what with sharks and krakens all over europe. . lots of krakens over there more than sharks

Question as she is flat bottom, how safety is she in coastal waters or making short sea passages, for example crossing the English Channel or the North Sea, or the Irish Sea? Or making crossings over to the Western Scottish Islands and Orkney's, plus sailing around the Scottish Western, Northern and Eastern coastline too? Or even travelling around the Baltic Sea coastline, of Denmark, Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden and Norway, maybe going up the Norwegian Sea Western coastline of Norway too? Or maybe cruising along the Western coastlines of France, Spain and Portugal down to Gibertal too, before sailing along the Mediterranean Sea coastline of Spain, France, Italy and Greece. Or are Dutch Barges the wrong vessel, for this kind of family or retired couple fully time or permanent liveaboard cruising explorer houseboat, or is a trawler conversion a better option which has better seakeeper hull? For the UK and European waters, with family and friends visiting now and again, for long weekends or for a week or two holiday's, maybe even for a month. Which would you advise a Dutch Barge or fishing trawler conversions, for a fully time or permanent liveaboard cruising explorer houseboat, along with how much experience, knowledge, expertist too, plus training would a retired couple or family, say a husband and wife plus teenage child or children need to operate such a vessel by themselves too? The reason for my question, my partner has sailing experience, knowledge, expertist, like yourself is a armed forces veteran but is disabled now, I am a civilian with no experience, knowledge, expertist of being afloat or at sea. So changing a permanent home on land for the likes of fully time or permanent liveaboard cruising liveaboard explorer houseboat, I do have questions but we both enjoy travelling. So I can see the appear of having fully time or permanent liveaboard cruising explorer houseboat, no packing for trips and no flights, trains or buses and coaches, or stay's in hotels and guesthouses etc. Or the appear of a fully time or permanent liveaboard cruising explorer houseboat lifestyle, with different views outside whenever you want a change, pull up anchor or untie mooring lines and sail away to somewhere new or warmer, but being disabled myself too how practical is it for a Disabled Couple to liveaboard? I would love to hear, from any disabled people or disabled families, who do live or have fully time or permanent liveaboard cruising explorer houseboat lifestyle too?

I didn't see a freezer

Is this a blue water cruiser or a coastal cruiser ?

This is former dutc cargo schip cald a spits these ships ar verry strong build and now its even stronger you can make the cross the north see and go to the netherlands even you can go tofrance this ship is made for france there are lengte 38 ore 47 meters long and 5,10 meters wyde

I can only dream, but they are free.

Is that david gilmores old boat?

787 US. Notbad at all. Too many bathrooms however. Perhaps it could be used as a BnB

Did not see any AC system.

Kinda like it, but seeing we live in Hawaii…

How do keep the rats off that thing?

6 mm? Not a lot😊

is it still for sale?

"White Elephant boat". Lol

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175 horsepower for a 125 long ship? Did I hear that correctly??? How does that make sense???

I would put a pool table where the office is.

There is only one "i" in the word aluminum... 😂. I don't understand why other countries insist on adding the second one.

Looks longer than 38.2'

I take it you can not take that out on the ocean

That thing looks like it can barely wait to flex in the middle and break in half. Other than that it looks pretty cool.

I always wanted a barge. Not.

All I'd do is put dry ex stack on her so you can hear the 8lbx sing ❤❤❤❤

6mm hull. My narrowboat was built in 2002 with a 10mm hull. 6mm is hull is a joke.

I think anyone who owns this boat who has to rent out the arse end of it, is on their arse. Thus any future buyer is buying in a buyers market.

I will never understand why every single person aboard needs their own damn bathroom. It is getting so bad we are getting vessels with 1.5 bathrooms per person. It is a colossal waste of space and completely antithetical to sailing.

Take this "thing" out to the north sea ..bye

Love this boat. Beautiful