Homemade Pontoon House Boats
by Scotty
(Sydney , Austrailia)
Homemade Pontoon House Boats
Basically a Pontoon Houseboat Log Cabin on the water. After a years worth of weekends, lots of aluminum and sweat later... the "Nuthouse" was born.
Since we couldn't find the design we wanted, we decided to build this when we saw the base hulls for sale. We wanted something different looking and with a full house size shower, kitchen, bed etc...
Fully solar powered with all 12v LED lighting and 12v fridge/freezer (permanently running) 240 v inverter for accessories, mains pressure water, full size electric toilet, continuous gas hot water, full size gas oven, BBQ, sleeps 4 (1 x double, 1 x Queen sofa bed in lounge) with a dinette yet to be built to allow small adult/children's bed.
Powered by 2 x 90hp TLDI Tohatsus/Nissans. Economy is the big surprise 6.5-10.0 litres/hr (total for both motors combined) at 6 knots cruise (depends on whether its with or against the tide) usually run at 2000-2400 rpms. Will get 4000 rpms but not sure what speed it is doing then, quicker than most!
Weighs 7.5 tons all up with 1000L of water. All alloy construction with rustic ply cladding. At present, the central pontoon is HDPE pontoons with central one as black water/grey water holding tanks.
These will be removed and substituted with 3ft diam HDPE pipe. This will give better buoyancy (reduce draft from 500mm to 400mm) and with a sloped front may even get me to semi displacement speeds if required.
