Welcome to the Floating Homes Association


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We are an Association of people who live on or own floating homes in Seattle, Washington, USA.

A floating home is a house on a raft semi-permanently moored to a dock. It is always attached to city utilities, including the sewer. These features, and a slug of government regulations, distinguish floating homes from live-aboards and other kinds of boats.

History has squeezed our range down to just Portage Bay and Lake Union within the boundaries of Seattle. There are about 500 legal floating home moorages left from a high of several thousand after World War II.

We've mounted this web site to give the world a peek at us and to help us talk among ourselves.

If you want to learn more, check out our About or Community pages or browse our most recent Newsletter. If you're already a dock denizen, or just interested, please join in the conversation.



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Tour 2008

Tour 2008 Poster

Near and Far

The sun was shining and ticket sales were flying as the 2008 FHA tour got under way on Sunday September 7th.  The Houseboatique with its colorful array of merchandise was doing a brisk business with booth volunteers modeling FHA aprons decorated with a houseboat motif.  And a special 2008 commemorative Tee shirt was offered for sale.

People came from the floating home communities in Portland and Vancouver, BC and from states as far away as South Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and New Mexico in addition to other communities in Washington and Oregon.

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Houseboatique Holiday Sale !!

  

Floating Homes Office Open Two Weekends in December

Saturday and Sunday 

December 13 and 14,  20 and 21

Noon to 4:00 pm

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Summer 2008

Newsletter

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Summer 2008 pdf
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