Boat Vickske, engine

Boat Vickske, repair transom

To make Lucie more attractive and comfortable, some more invests are done in 2017. Lets start with a shiny new layer of black paint on...

Boat Vickske, start drawing

Vickske: find a boat

The B&B returned our investment at the start of 2015. It seems to be worted to invest again at the start of 2016. 'Little Lucie' her 8 HP...

We quickly found out we have an amazing place, these pictures say more than words:

We realize we will never be the high-class-jacuzzi-hotel, but we find out that guest just want us to be ourselves. We get used to it to...

Bit a slow start for the first month; Still some more things we can do to make the B&B a bit more nice. Start by painting the...

Day after, we bring the guests a simple breakfast and hear that they had trouble to find the light switches (they eventually turned out...

Our First guest is coming Today ! One small problem ... Seems we have to go to a gala-night that eve... . Badly arranged in the agenda...

Now we got confident the appartment will be ready, we do the big step to put our advert online on booking.com. Pictures are a bit...

Deadline was to finish the Shippers cabin 2.0 by 1th of April. We did it !

16th of feb 2014, exactly one year that Ship Lucie is in hands. The planned works in the cargo place was succesfull within budget and...

A metal ship like a car: as cold inside as outside. In direct sunlight: double as hot inside than outside. Living areas below the...

As a ship is mobile, different sources of electricity need to be considered: 230VAC or 400VAC from the shore 230VAC or 400VAC From a...

Windows need to be minimum 30cm above the water line (after finishing all works and remeasuring the ship); safer is to try to achieve...

Heating The heat capacity of a material is the energy it needs to heat up. For iron this is about 448 Joule / (Kg.Kelvin) For concrete...

From our personal experience, we consume about 1m³ house hold water per week. On a houseboat, you can chose having no tank at all,...

Previously, you read that we have fresh (tap/rain/canal) water in our blue tanks and black/grey water in our black tanks. Now the...