Book boat

Books hold endless details. The English dictionary describes a houseboat thus ~ A boat roofed over and fitted up as a house, for living in. The word first came into being in 1790 at the height of the Romantic era, when beauty and tragedy were celebrated in the arts, architecture and landscape. The foundation of Heather, the decked hull had a cabin built on top, just over a hundred years after the word was coined ~ making her one of the oldest craft of her kind in the world.