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...TESTAMENT Noah's Liberty Ship What did history's most famous boat look like? Though many religious scholars doubt the story of Noah and the Flood, there has been no lack of efforts to depict his ark. Medieval artists tended to portray it as a big houseboat...
Time was when owning a houseboat was considered downright lubberly. Proper yachtsmen snickered whenever one tied up at the dock, and out on the water skippers of fast-moving cruisers delighted in leaving the lumbering arks pitching and wallowing in their wake. Not any longer. There is a new kind of hot houseboat that comes with a deep V hull and powerful twin in-board-outdrive engines, and can plane at speeds of 30 m.p.h. or more, as fast as conventional cruisers costing twice as much. With prices beginning as low as $9,000, houseboats are gaining converts faster than...
Aside from souped-up performance, the new houseboats continue to offer boating enthusiasts the maximum amount of space for the least money, with roomy galleys, "patios" fore and aft, and large sundecks on top. "It's almost like living in a Florida home," says Chris-Craft Sales Promotion Manager C. G. Houser. It's also great for parties. Brigadier General William Shedd, deputy director of operations of the Pentagon's National Military Command Center, uses his 34-ft. houseboat (appropriately christened the Outhouse) for entertaining afloat on the Potomac, with the number of guests limited only...
...Moorings. Pittsburgh Businessman Carl Volkwein, who for 20 years owned cruisers ranging from 24 ft. to 30 ft. in length, switched to a 40-ft. houseboat two years ago so that he could treat clients and their families to weekend jaunts up the Allegheny; he has already ordered a 43-ft. replacement with even more room. Mystery Writer Erie Stanley Gardner likes houseboats so much that he operates two of them on California's Sacramento River. "They're my floating offices, the only place in the world where I can really get away from it all in comfort...
...writings of a gallery of gurus, ranging from the popular Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (TIME, Oct. 20) to Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta of Bengal. A third source of spiritual insight is Zen Buddhism, as promulgated by Oriental Scholar Alan Watts, a one-time Anglican priest who lives on a houseboat in San Francisco...