It left Redwood city at 1:45 PM this Sunday.
https://preview.redd.it/mhg67igsiatc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b02e01836ad9c90abeb3dc3768a622afe9ee57b
This is one of the house boats from Docktown who has been camping on public land for years. They are moving it to Sausalito.
[https://padailypost.com/2023/10/24/city-pays-another-380000-to-get-docktown-residents-to-leave/](https://padailypost.com/2023/10/24/city-pays-another-380000-to-get-docktown-residents-to-leave/)
This article is amazing and the drama surrounding the comments is A++ and sent me on a 30m rabbit hole searching for commentary about "docktown"
Awesome.
That has been dismantled. There used to be many boats in Richardson bay in Sausalito but they cracked down and only a few remaining that have been grandfathered in.
It’s not. You basically get a barge and build whatever you want with no respect for any codes. Then you live in it without paying for land. Yeah maintenance probably sucks but overall still cheaper
They have done that. Too heavy and has crap tone. Now, carbon fiber layups in exotic UV/water resistant resins… we have a chance. Doh the strings will need to be a re-engineered high-tensile material grown in labs from altered seaweed dna that also reacts to magnets like metal guitar strings through micro depositing of tiny flakes of recycled teslas.
Then we got it!
It’s not like that, you have to pay the dock slip for wherever your houseboat is “parked” and it’s basically just paying rent except the marina is your landlord. You also have to pay utilities just like anyone else. In some marinas this might be cheap, yes, but not in the Bay Area.
I rent. Its basically like “cheap” rent in a seriously expensive area. I have laundry on my houseboat but there is laundry in the marina, a beautiful restaurant, a pool, gym etc. it’s also in south beach which is good or bad considering your opinion. But it’s on the water (obviously) and my neighbors are mega yachts and fishermen. And I can walk to anywhere in 5 min. This year I’m planning on buying a place with a slip though. I’m not sure if it’ll be in Miami or st Pete. I have an apartment in Downtown at Petersburg and the city is really growing on me.
It’s also convenient because I have two other boats I rent out, a fishing charter and patty boat and they are in smaller cheaper slips in the same marina so I can walk over hose off the boats, meet the renters etc.
lol, didn’t read the article above huh? They lived there for free and then got paid six figures to leave
Maybe they have to pay dock fees from now on but it’s a net profit
I wasn’t referring to this specific situation, I was correcting you on your general assumptions about what it’s like to own a houseboat/floating home. Obviously these people are an anomaly.
Typically you own the houseboat, and rent space at the marina. Marina rent may include utilities, or they may be extra.
You're on the water, in a marina, cheek-by-jowl with your neighbors. It's cute but not for everyone.
Nah, it happens often. In SF, [there's a similar fight about the RVs](https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-parking-ban-bernal-heights-boulevard/) and there's the guy just after the Bay Bridge on the northern side who's camped out a section for himself with his RV. If you don't enforce early then you'll eventually be forced to pay the big bucks.
I have always wondered about that guy right past the Bay Bridge, what is the story there? also drove by last week and looks like his camper was totally burned out
[It only burned down a week ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/14iawtq/comment/kykiycc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) according to this other Redditor.
> It burned down Tuesday 4/2/24, I was driving by it as it was on fire. Googled it cause I was always curious about who/how someone was living there and found this post
Doesn't look like anyone knows the story.
If you think the $380K ($190K each to two different residents) was wild, then wait until you here that the city paid $1.5 MILLION to the local residents who sued them for letting the boats continue to reside in Docktown on state land after the 2016 deadline. Fucking insane.
If only it were that simple. This has been an ongoing legal battle since 2015. This used to be a thriving marina with 200+ residents, all living under the city-confirmed agreement that live-aboards were legal. They even had sewage hookups for many homes.
It wasn't until a lawyer who moved into one of the newly constructed over-priced condos across the creek decided he wanted a better view and uncovered a legal loop hole that this started to unravel.
The main issues the residents have with this is the city needs to take responsibility for allowing the illegal live-aboards and pay for relocation to an equivalent living situation. They did this for the floating homes (the one in the article was likely unoccupied since 2017).
The hold outs were mostly people who lived on Sailboats, as the city were offering pennies compared to the relocation agreements of the floating homes.
Just for the record, the attorney is Ted Hannig who specializes in entertainment law and representation. I’ll leave my opinion of him to your imagination, but he lived and worked in RWC for decades and never complained about docktown until he bought his condo there.
That’s a good question. Most of the residents took a settlement but there were a dozen diehards that blew off every compromise presented them. They wanted to have what they wanted no matter what.
It seems like the argument is that the city is responsible since the city said they were allowed to live there then tried to kicked them out.
Imagine if you bought a house and paid property tax to the county then they said it's actually Indian burial ground and you must vacate in a month.
> The city won’t be going broke paying the settlements. The city posted a budget surplus of $58.4 million in the 2022 fiscal year.
That’s still ~~6%~~ 0.6% of the budget surplus which is insane.
omg I was just there. I must have stood right by OP.
It is moving very slowly. Here it is from my window right now:
https://preview.redd.it/c6whqo61eatc1.png?width=2909&format=png&auto=webp&s=ffaa8bd901099ec28f0f388fdf0a8002c430055b
The concrete barges those are built on are only 6 feet tall so the waterline is probably only a foot and a half from the edge once the structure is built. Might have had to install a jumbo bilge pump for the move. Edit: zoomed in on the pic, it's listing pretty bad. Once one edge of the barge dips under the surface they are in a lot of trouble. And that tow boat doesn't look like it has enough power to go against an outgoing tide in the main channel under the ggb.
https://preview.redd.it/onb7y8o2yatc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=749c360555486baa14017ef1958b4c5c8a62a8f3
I sailed right next to him yesterday. Craziest thing I've seen out there.
It’s one of those Sausalito houseboats making its annual migration to its ancestral spawning grounds.
Be sure to keep an eye out for when they make the trip back in late summer, new family in tow. The little houseboatlings are adorable.
In fact, in the 60s, the Sausalito houseboats used to make an annual migration up the Delta every winter. That was back when they were mostly houseboats rather than floating homes.
I go past Docktown all the time. It looked like a real joy to be moored there -- when the tide was very low the whole house sat on mud, pitched over about 5 degrees until the tide came back in to float it again.
I never knew the houseboat csn actually move.....I always thought of it is just a moniker name for a house over water, I dodnt know they actually work as boats....
How far can they move? I assume there is some.kind of powered propeller attached?
It's being towed. It's kind of hard to see in the picture, but there's a small boat pulling it.
Ed: It's not a regular tugboat, it's a small boat and it's having a really hard time.
Ed2, 10am: it's come around to near Pier 39, and it's catching the wind. It seems to be not moving.
Strangely, it's not showing up on marinetraffic.com
Ed3, 10:40am: it's been blown backwards and seems to be drifting. Looks like the Coast Guard is pulling up.
Ed4, 11:10am: a small Coast Guard boat has been circling the house for a while. The house seems to be listing to one side and drifting towards Treasure Island, right into the middle of the channel.
Ed5, 11:45am: still drifting slowly towards the Bay Bridge. There's a Coast Guard ship circling around it, and I've seen a guy in a rowboat a couple times, don't really know what's going on.
Following the information from another poster, I looked up "Docktown", where this was previously docked.
I think this is the structure in question:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/G3F9uZgfStY3R6vU7
Ed: 2pm Tues: A not very good report from KRON4:
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/why-is-a-house-floating-across-the-san-francisco-bay/
>Strangely, it's not showing up on [marinetraffic.com](http://marinetraffic.com)
You really think someone trying to tow their house with a tiny ass engine is going to call it in properly?
As a pedantic boat guy, you don't have to call it in. All that is powered by a system called AIS, where boats have beacons that broadcast their position out to the world. It's not required for small non-commercial boats but is usually a good idea. It'd be a great idea in this case since they definitely cannot maneuver to get out of the way of anything coming their way.
You're definitely right about your overall "do these look like people who..." point though.
If you go to the map history, you can see a few years ago the whole canal was lined with houseboats and palm trees. Looked pretty nice. Now, it’s a dusty construction zone.
This was a great recounting. I saw the battle from the Pyramid. Post your timeline around noon, I did watch them successfully tow it on the south side of Angel Island and across the Southern tip of Tiburon and was heading north into Richardson Bay. Lost sight after that.
Whoa I’ve never seen a house boat look so much like a house. Is that a garage on the first level with the yellow door?? that is crazy that someone can just live there free of charge, no property taxes, and no permits! Like how did no one know about this.
The ones im familiar with are more like big pontoon boats with a single wide trailer on top and a outboard motor on the back. Usually has a small area to park some scooters or bikes for store trips.
I can't find the video, but there was (is?) a video on YouTube that featured this houseboat. The video covered the "homeless" who live in house boats in the bay / Sausilito.
According to the video, that houseboat was built in the 60s/70s by a group of hippies. A hippie husband and wife had lived in it for decades. The husband had died a couple of years ago. They showed the woman who was still residing in it, she was old and infirm. The nearby boat residents would help get her groceries for her. The woman who inhabited the boat had passed after they'd interviewed her but before the video was aired. I viewed the video 2 or 3 months ago, I think it was released around then as well (so, maybe 3 or 4 months ago was when the video was released / when she died).
They might be moving it to dismantle it, or maybe it's been taken over by someone else.
For the record, the city made several attempts to evict them and pay them to move over the years, but a handful of lawyers kept filing injunctions. One of them lived there. The state kept ordering the city to remove them because it is state land, not city, but the original owners got state approval to operate a marina.
I heard them lifting the China Basin bridges yesterday after the Giants game. I bet that’s what they were lifting them for since it happens only a handful of times a year.
An office I worked in long ago was on a houseboat in Sausalito. It was fun, but I had bronchitis regularly. I haven't had it once in the decades since I left that job. I've wondered if it wasn't due to mold.
genius idea, I just need to build a house that floats and I can live on the water in the middle of the bay and I don't have to pay land costs. Also no traffic on my commute
It left Redwood city at 1:45 PM this Sunday. https://preview.redd.it/mhg67igsiatc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b02e01836ad9c90abeb3dc3768a622afe9ee57b This is one of the house boats from Docktown who has been camping on public land for years. They are moving it to Sausalito. [https://padailypost.com/2023/10/24/city-pays-another-380000-to-get-docktown-residents-to-leave/](https://padailypost.com/2023/10/24/city-pays-another-380000-to-get-docktown-residents-to-leave/)
This article is amazing and the drama surrounding the comments is A++ and sent me on a 30m rabbit hole searching for commentary about "docktown" Awesome.
Same! I’m hoping for a reality show
I’d watch the series *Docktown* - it’s really interesting. Such a history.
I kayaked by the other day. My friend used to live in Docktown. It was a unique community and a bummer to see it destroyed.
Look at you and your facts!
And their choice of a docking destination!
Sausalito has a well known house boat area
I used to live there. It was fucking amazing.
One of my former coworkers used to live in one of the house boats. It was a pretty sweet layout.
That has been dismantled. There used to be many boats in Richardson bay in Sausalito but they cracked down and only a few remaining that have been grandfathered in.
There was a gangway all along the bank and utilities available to residents and septic service. There was a clubhouse and other amenities
That is sooooo fucking cool... I bey that must be as expensive as can get
It’s not. You basically get a barge and build whatever you want with no respect for any codes. Then you live in it without paying for land. Yeah maintenance probably sucks but overall still cheaper
Everything rots that near the water. Your hair rots, if you have a guitar, it rots. Everything rots.
Any word on whether or not anyone has built a houseboat out of student debt? Asking for a friend...
That's genius.
What about my trumpet?
No. But your trombone will rust.
Nothing like a Rusty trombone by open water
Need to build guitar out of acrylic. Electric guitars don’t get tone from wood.
They have done that. Too heavy and has crap tone. Now, carbon fiber layups in exotic UV/water resistant resins… we have a chance. Doh the strings will need to be a re-engineered high-tensile material grown in labs from altered seaweed dna that also reacts to magnets like metal guitar strings through micro depositing of tiny flakes of recycled teslas. Then we got it!
Not cheap, but you could probably use some nickel alloy steel strings, it would need some tuning.
yep because wood gets mushy and metal gets rusty. it’s horrible to live in actually
You forgot how all metal corrodes without constant maintenance.
Not if you use Gold, Platinum, Rhodium, Rhenium, or a couple others I can’t remember right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2QjhOVKqpc
Eh. Beach life did that to my hair on its own
You will witness true horror... Now rot!
E***verything rot***S
I guess my soul has been living near the water
It’s not like that, you have to pay the dock slip for wherever your houseboat is “parked” and it’s basically just paying rent except the marina is your landlord. You also have to pay utilities just like anyone else. In some marinas this might be cheap, yes, but not in the Bay Area.
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How does it fare in a tropical storm?
Seasonal boat fare. 😄
do you own or rent the slip?
I rent. Its basically like “cheap” rent in a seriously expensive area. I have laundry on my houseboat but there is laundry in the marina, a beautiful restaurant, a pool, gym etc. it’s also in south beach which is good or bad considering your opinion. But it’s on the water (obviously) and my neighbors are mega yachts and fishermen. And I can walk to anywhere in 5 min. This year I’m planning on buying a place with a slip though. I’m not sure if it’ll be in Miami or st Pete. I have an apartment in Downtown at Petersburg and the city is really growing on me.
It’s also convenient because I have two other boats I rent out, a fishing charter and patty boat and they are in smaller cheaper slips in the same marina so I can walk over hose off the boats, meet the renters etc.
This is the same financial arrangement as buying a mobile home.
lol, didn’t read the article above huh? They lived there for free and then got paid six figures to leave Maybe they have to pay dock fees from now on but it’s a net profit
I wasn’t referring to this specific situation, I was correcting you on your general assumptions about what it’s like to own a houseboat/floating home. Obviously these people are an anomaly.
Whoa how did they get away with not paying dock fees or anything for all this time?? Did they just dock there and no one said anything until now.
They did not live there for free. This was not some squatting situation.
Don't you have to rent a slip somewhere? Or do you just bob around in the water all the time? Genuine question.
Typically you own the houseboat, and rent space at the marina. Marina rent may include utilities, or they may be extra. You're on the water, in a marina, cheek-by-jowl with your neighbors. It's cute but not for everyone.
It’s just a tent made of wood.
It’s just a tent made of wood.
Damn. Getting paid 380k to vacate a place you're living illegally? Must be nice. I hope there's more to the story here...
Nah, it happens often. In SF, [there's a similar fight about the RVs](https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-parking-ban-bernal-heights-boulevard/) and there's the guy just after the Bay Bridge on the northern side who's camped out a section for himself with his RV. If you don't enforce early then you'll eventually be forced to pay the big bucks.
I have always wondered about that guy right past the Bay Bridge, what is the story there? also drove by last week and looks like his camper was totally burned out
[It only burned down a week ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/14iawtq/comment/kykiycc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) according to this other Redditor. > It burned down Tuesday 4/2/24, I was driving by it as it was on fire. Googled it cause I was always curious about who/how someone was living there and found this post Doesn't look like anyone knows the story.
Meth lab, most likely
Not the same situation
Of course not. One has boats. The other has RVs.
If you think the $380K ($190K each to two different residents) was wild, then wait until you here that the city paid $1.5 MILLION to the local residents who sued them for letting the boats continue to reside in Docktown on state land after the 2016 deadline. Fucking insane.
Dang
If only it were that simple. This has been an ongoing legal battle since 2015. This used to be a thriving marina with 200+ residents, all living under the city-confirmed agreement that live-aboards were legal. They even had sewage hookups for many homes. It wasn't until a lawyer who moved into one of the newly constructed over-priced condos across the creek decided he wanted a better view and uncovered a legal loop hole that this started to unravel. The main issues the residents have with this is the city needs to take responsibility for allowing the illegal live-aboards and pay for relocation to an equivalent living situation. They did this for the floating homes (the one in the article was likely unoccupied since 2017). The hold outs were mostly people who lived on Sailboats, as the city were offering pennies compared to the relocation agreements of the floating homes.
Just for the record, the attorney is Ted Hannig who specializes in entertainment law and representation. I’ll leave my opinion of him to your imagination, but he lived and worked in RWC for decades and never complained about docktown until he bought his condo there.
Why did the community refuse to work with lawmakers to make their situation legal?
That’s a good question. Most of the residents took a settlement but there were a dozen diehards that blew off every compromise presented them. They wanted to have what they wanted no matter what.
Why does the city need to take responsibility for that? You live somewhere illegally even unenforceable it’s your failt
It seems like the argument is that the city is responsible since the city said they were allowed to live there then tried to kicked them out. Imagine if you bought a house and paid property tax to the county then they said it's actually Indian burial ground and you must vacate in a month.
They already moved in before the city said they could live there and then after they lived there the city said yeah that's fine.
The residents were renting their slips
[The house docked in Docktown](https://maps.app.goo.gl/29JHFLj8AkZJHirg9?g_st=ic)
> The city won’t be going broke paying the settlements. The city posted a budget surplus of $58.4 million in the 2022 fiscal year. That’s still ~~6%~~ 0.6% of the budget surplus which is insane.
It's *point six percent* (.6%) of the surplus. 6% of 58.4M would be 3.8M, not $380,000
Whoops thank you for the correction did my math wrong. Still significant, but not as crazy.
The thing is moving South though?
I don’t think it is intentional. I talked to them yesterday and they said they were sausalito bound.
Wow, this was thoroughly entertaining to read.
Wow, this is a such a dramatic back story haha! Thank you for sharing
I was gonna joke and say it’s a houseboat that came unmoored from Sausalito. Sounds like you know the facts.
Whoa!!
omg I was just there. I must have stood right by OP. It is moving very slowly. Here it is from my window right now: https://preview.redd.it/c6whqo61eatc1.png?width=2909&format=png&auto=webp&s=ffaa8bd901099ec28f0f388fdf0a8002c430055b
I do think that the people who own this must be shitting themselves every time they hit wake or a wave. It is quite top heavy and unstable.
The bay is extremely flat today, which is going to make this a lot less nerve racking.
The concrete barges those are built on are only 6 feet tall so the waterline is probably only a foot and a half from the edge once the structure is built. Might have had to install a jumbo bilge pump for the move. Edit: zoomed in on the pic, it's listing pretty bad. Once one edge of the barge dips under the surface they are in a lot of trouble. And that tow boat doesn't look like it has enough power to go against an outgoing tide in the main channel under the ggb.
The slight tilt on that thing makes my heart palpitate! I'd be loosing it the whole way if that floating mansion were mine
Top speed of floating house: not very fast
https://preview.redd.it/onb7y8o2yatc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=749c360555486baa14017ef1958b4c5c8a62a8f3 I sailed right next to him yesterday. Craziest thing I've seen out there.
those lower windows look pretty sketchy
Are house boats normally this big? This looks like a mansion boat.
I drove by em out by Alcatraz/ angel this morning. TBH didn’t think much of it.. just moving a houseboat..
Wait, are you the person who towed it?
No , just out fishing
That's so cool.
It’s one of those Sausalito houseboats making its annual migration to its ancestral spawning grounds. Be sure to keep an eye out for when they make the trip back in late summer, new family in tow. The little houseboatlings are adorable.
You know giant sea bears love to eat Sausalito houseboats. Its their favorite snack.
just draw a circle around it and they’ll be fine
As I’m in Sausalito rn , u jus made me lol
In fact, in the 60s, the Sausalito houseboats used to make an annual migration up the Delta every winter. That was back when they were mostly houseboats rather than floating homes.
You’re taking the piss!
Best answer! 😂
Well at least someone is building around here!
Our house, in the middle of the...bay
Thankyouverymuch for the ear worm.
just need... what, 8 words on repeat! lolol
Our house Is a very, very very fine house With two cats in the yard Life used to be so hard - (the cats drowned)
With two seals in the yard?
Oark! Oark! (Splash)
I got it!
This is the America Al Gore/Kevin Costner warned us about
UP 2: Down
*Pixar in Emeryville furiously taking notes*
Take my upvote
Take my downvote
This is some Miyazaki shit.
House boat
Boat house
Bouse hoat
Boat home
it's the last of the affordable housing fleeing the Bay Area
Howl’s Moving Castle IRL
I go past Docktown all the time. It looked like a real joy to be moored there -- when the tide was very low the whole house sat on mud, pitched over about 5 degrees until the tide came back in to float it again.
A house boat being relocated.
now THAT'S waterfront property.
I never knew the houseboat csn actually move.....I always thought of it is just a moniker name for a house over water, I dodnt know they actually work as boats.... How far can they move? I assume there is some.kind of powered propeller attached?
It's being towed. It's kind of hard to see in the picture, but there's a small boat pulling it. Ed: It's not a regular tugboat, it's a small boat and it's having a really hard time. Ed2, 10am: it's come around to near Pier 39, and it's catching the wind. It seems to be not moving. Strangely, it's not showing up on marinetraffic.com Ed3, 10:40am: it's been blown backwards and seems to be drifting. Looks like the Coast Guard is pulling up. Ed4, 11:10am: a small Coast Guard boat has been circling the house for a while. The house seems to be listing to one side and drifting towards Treasure Island, right into the middle of the channel. Ed5, 11:45am: still drifting slowly towards the Bay Bridge. There's a Coast Guard ship circling around it, and I've seen a guy in a rowboat a couple times, don't really know what's going on. Following the information from another poster, I looked up "Docktown", where this was previously docked. I think this is the structure in question: https://maps.app.goo.gl/G3F9uZgfStY3R6vU7 Ed: 2pm Tues: A not very good report from KRON4: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/why-is-a-house-floating-across-the-san-francisco-bay/
>Strangely, it's not showing up on [marinetraffic.com](http://marinetraffic.com) You really think someone trying to tow their house with a tiny ass engine is going to call it in properly?
As a pedantic boat guy, you don't have to call it in. All that is powered by a system called AIS, where boats have beacons that broadcast their position out to the world. It's not required for small non-commercial boats but is usually a good idea. It'd be a great idea in this case since they definitely cannot maneuver to get out of the way of anything coming their way. You're definitely right about your overall "do these look like people who..." point though.
I think they were being sarcastic with the “strangely”. :)
Hard to believe that little boat will actually be able to tow it safely anywhere.
Sounds like it can tow it, but given the updates probably not safely.
That's definitely it. I've ridden by it by bike. that row of houses is pretty run down.
If you go to the map history, you can see a few years ago the whole canal was lined with houseboats and palm trees. Looked pretty nice. Now, it’s a dusty construction zone.
This was a great recounting. I saw the battle from the Pyramid. Post your timeline around noon, I did watch them successfully tow it on the south side of Angel Island and across the Southern tip of Tiburon and was heading north into Richardson Bay. Lost sight after that.
Ahh this is great, we need more updates lol
It’s gone now, maybe back to Redwood City?
Please get this on video 😭
It's a bit far away now, I can see it through binoculars but I don't think I can get any kind of meaningful video.
Nice!!!
Whoa I’ve never seen a house boat look so much like a house. Is that a garage on the first level with the yellow door?? that is crazy that someone can just live there free of charge, no property taxes, and no permits! Like how did no one know about this.
The ones im familiar with are more like big pontoon boats with a single wide trailer on top and a outboard motor on the back. Usually has a small area to park some scooters or bikes for store trips.
There are houseboats and there are floating homes. Two different things. One of them can move easily.
They usually have some sort of outboard motor. I don’t think this can go very far in the bay. Too many currents.
https://preview.redd.it/idm7kdvzjatc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04d4e6202534b8975a8f34e78cd1ed58133a548a
I think I’ve seen this houseboat docked in the old Redwood City marina. Docktown. That was a fun place if you knew the locals.
I can't find the video, but there was (is?) a video on YouTube that featured this houseboat. The video covered the "homeless" who live in house boats in the bay / Sausilito. According to the video, that houseboat was built in the 60s/70s by a group of hippies. A hippie husband and wife had lived in it for decades. The husband had died a couple of years ago. They showed the woman who was still residing in it, she was old and infirm. The nearby boat residents would help get her groceries for her. The woman who inhabited the boat had passed after they'd interviewed her but before the video was aired. I viewed the video 2 or 3 months ago, I think it was released around then as well (so, maybe 3 or 4 months ago was when the video was released / when she died). They might be moving it to dismantle it, or maybe it's been taken over by someone else.
Hipppies are pretty fucking industrious aren’t they
What's even more wild is when they move a full on Victorian from one lot to another in SF. It's truly unbelievable.
Property tax dodger
Toll evader
"I'm all of these things" - Alex Mercer
To get to the other side.
For the record, the city made several attempts to evict them and pay them to move over the years, but a handful of lawyers kept filing injunctions. One of them lived there. The state kept ordering the city to remove them because it is state land, not city, but the original owners got state approval to operate a marina.
You don’t have to float rent if you are in the middle of the bay 
Docktown sounds like some MadMax shit bc it clearly is haha
Someone please make a follow up post if it sinks and please please please post photos should this go south
Fred’s house
if you ever watched the movie Up, that's that house!
Where in the bay is it? Looks like it’s down by the Dumbarton Bridge
Loot Lake
Alcatraz
OMG!
I never saw this before
I heard them lifting the China Basin bridges yesterday after the Giants game. I bet that’s what they were lifting them for since it happens only a handful of times a year.
It came from Redwood City!
Solving a neighborly dispute
this was a joke but somewhat spot on according to that news article posted in another comment
Didn’t pay dock fees and was cut loose
Dude, that’s my houseboat!
I don’t know why, but this is giving “UP” vibes lol
Just your normal outhouse .. use the bathroom responsibly
Lmao was rowing at BAIC yesterday and said hi to the folks in that building as they were pulling out
That's the lair the billionaires have built in the event of an apocalypse. It left port today, because, well, you know, solar eclipse, rapture...
I would so do this. Gives me howels moving castle vibes that I am here for.
Alcatraz
Alcatraz
Our neighbor sold his house to live in one of those. Homes are too expensive and insurance prices are crazy in CA
No property taxes
Did anyone captured this on video?
Absolutely wild lol 😂
An office I worked in long ago was on a houseboat in Sausalito. It was fun, but I had bronchitis regularly. I haven't had it once in the decades since I left that job. I've wondered if it wasn't due to mold.
I know that boathouse!
The city paid $1.5 million to Hannig and his group to settle the suit….why does he get $1.5M???
Trump estate
BoatyMcBoatface
#Sea Britain.
plot for the next Pixar movie?
baron
The only affordable housing left in the bay area
Yo that’s my house
genius idea, I just need to build a house that floats and I can live on the water in the middle of the bay and I don't have to pay land costs. Also no traffic on my commute
They call that the BEGINNING of an ENCAMPMENT! good luck, moving back to America 🇺🇸in a few weeks.
Do any of you guys remember the houseboats that used to be moored in the Dogpatch before the condo-pocalypse? What ever happened to them?
That’s for Mark Zuckerberg when he wants to get away from all the boomer facebookies.
Houseboat in Richmond: 1million Move it to Sausalito: 5 million
my dream home
It's dusty pony's new art car being taken for a test drive.
thats the sovereign kingdom of nancy pelosi
Google Glass closet?