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Difference between boathouse, houseboat
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Apr. 13, 2011 12:03 pm
Webster's Universal Encyclopedic Dictionary defines a boathouse as “a building to house and protect boats.” A houseboat is “a boat fitted for use as a dwelling.”
I grew up in Dubuque on the Mississippi River where my father had a boathouse in the harbor to house his pleasure boats. There were and are many houseboats along the shore and in backwaters that are used as vacation houses.
Please consider this difference in the future when publishing articles like the April 8 story titled, “Use boathouse space or lose it.”
Ted Healey
Cedar Rapids
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