Moving A 42ft Houseboat up the River - Part 1: Lansing, IA to La Crosse, WI.

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Moving A 42ft Houseboat up the River - Part 1: Lansing, IA to La Crosse, WI.

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3 жыл бұрын

Recently I helped move a houseboat up to the Twin Cities from Iowa. This isn't one of my own boats, I was just along as the "experienced" river pilot, because a growing up on an island in Alaska plus owning 500 terrible boats probably adds up to river pilot experience, right?
This is part one, the first day of the journey. We started in Lansing Iowa and went up the Mississippi River to La Crosse Wisconsin. We had hoped to get a little farther, but ran into a few delays and mechanical issues on the first day.
The boat is a 42ft Gibson houseboat built in the 1980s. It has a fiberglass hull and twin Crusader 270 engines. We have yet to determine top speed, we kept it around 10mph since this is probably the longest and hardest the engines have worked in years.

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@MountainSportAirguns 3 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to say hello, my wife and I have been watching you for about 3 months now. We very much enjoy the videos and just wanted to say thanks for brightening our day. Keep up the great content! Cheers

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

Cool, glad you both enjoy them! There will be more of the houseboat videos coming soon :-)

@jonlangford7622 2 жыл бұрын

This was awesome, thank you. Radios, boats, underground fun spaces, rail vehicles...it's all good.

@310dancer 2 жыл бұрын

I love traveling the Mississippi River, best trip was 7 people with coolers and luggage on a 23 ft pontoon from Clinton Ia to La Crosse Wis . Talk about an adventure we had a blast , watching this makes me want to do it again !!

@DetroitMicroSound 3 жыл бұрын

Brings back awesome childhood memories, of when our family rented a very similar model on Kentucky Lake for a week. We also toured Mammoth Caves, and visited the now infamous, Guntown Mountain........

@glenndaugherity6187 9 ай бұрын

Brownsville is a great little river town and an beautiful area !!

@davidmccrory2115 3 жыл бұрын

Vintage Gibson. I’ve been around Gibson’s for decades as the original plant was in the adjoining town. Their sales dock was at my dock as well. I owned Nauta-Lines, however, which was where Carl Gibson learned how to build boats.

@Bob.W. 2 жыл бұрын

What town is that? The Gibson factory.

@escapewithjay 3 жыл бұрын

paddled the river in 2019, I could totally travel it again like this!!

@pigeonpallz1733 3 жыл бұрын

Fun video! Thank you for making it.

@1D10CRACY 3 жыл бұрын

I've seriously been thinking about buying one of those griddle, coffee, toaster thinga-ma-bobs for my RV! Enjoyed the video BTW, it was fun to see the locks!

@tomlompa6598 3 жыл бұрын

Don't waste your money on that. Rv space is at a premium. The only place for an appliance like that is a dorm room.

@cliffandrews 3 жыл бұрын

I bet they were glad to have you aboard👍

@workshop94 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! This makes me want to learn more about boating, my knowledge is very slim on it. I also definitely need a combo coffee maker+griddle+toaster oven in my life lmao

@jessenokken5775 3 жыл бұрын

That was a giant slip and slide. Crater island is what that “island” is known as.

@Suncast45 3 жыл бұрын

Marquette Transportation is HQ'd in Paducah, Ky. My hometown. Father in Law had Marinettes, Gipson and several other houseboats and cruisers over the years. Loved the video.

@itwasrightthere 3 жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoyed your time in La Crosse. There are a lot of great outdoor activities to do here.

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

We didn't stick around too long this time, and we were mostly at the auto parts store or in the engine room! I've been there before and it seems like an interesting town.

@chadsutphen9401 Жыл бұрын

Great job. We’ll done

@jcarlson517 14 күн бұрын

My neighbor just bought a houseboat… this one!!! I can’t believe it 😂

@saveitforparts 14 күн бұрын

Ha, that's awesome! It was a fun boat, but I think it was a little larger than the prior owners wanted to handle.

@jacklandismcgowan1413 3 жыл бұрын

Great video 👍 I noticed the Ron Jon Surf shop sticker …it’s located about an 1.5 hours North of where I live. 😎

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

I think that came with the boat :-)

@northeden8661 3 жыл бұрын

Nice boat. You can barely notice the planet sized black hole that is going to suck a crap ton of money into it. Still, those things are a lot of fun. A fishing we will go ......

@Rebar77_real 3 жыл бұрын

Break out another thousand, for sure. But then you can go on cruises like that! Plus there's the implication, lol.

@markgilbertson4917 3 жыл бұрын

La Crosse Pettibone Boat Club has a very good restaurant. You should have tried it.

@jamesparker2337 3 жыл бұрын

Looks to be a good boat if he can get the few items fixed, yep.

@thatshadycow2294 9 ай бұрын

i cant imagine beginning on a boat a sea for mutiple weeks or months

@saveitforparts 8 ай бұрын

It's ok if you've got something to do, or a lot of books to read! I used to do commercial fishing all summer, although we weren't really "out at sea". Also the internet wasn't as fast or all-pervasive back then, so I could get by with the occasional dial-up connection through an analog cell phone and tangle of adapters :-P

@raymondj8768 3 жыл бұрын

VERY COOL VIDEO ! LOVE THE COMBO GRIDLE TOASTER/COIFFE MAKER HAHAHAHAHA

@michaelhoyt1228 3 жыл бұрын

The generator puking oil probably has a plugged breather on the side of the crankcase. Usually held on with a couple screws, spray it out with carb cleaner and it should be fine.

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

The combo dipstick / filler cap was loose, and the spark plug got oil on it. I've heard it's working now that it's been dried out. Still might be something sketchy with the battery or charging circuit.

@michaelhoyt1228 3 жыл бұрын

@@saveitforparts check the battery voltage before starting it, the start it and monitor it. The battery charging should read between 12.5 to 13.5 volts roughly.

@wayphyo794 3 жыл бұрын

Hay that's my boat!!!! At 6m 11s

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! It's cool to have someone I filmed see it! We liked the look of your boat too.

@wayphyo794 3 жыл бұрын

@@saveitforparts I probably sunk 30g into it. I'm a 100% disabled veteran.

@wayphyo794 3 жыл бұрын

@@saveitforparts her name is. The Serena Marie

@akstudiosprojects 3 жыл бұрын

nice bro

@paulhoffer3123 3 жыл бұрын

My parents had a cabin south of HARPERS FERRY I THE 70S

@ericpatrick5542 2 жыл бұрын

I Love To Have A Houseboat At This Size.

@cpalmermn 2 жыл бұрын

So many questions about what everyone knew about the condition of this boat before deciding to proceed upstream!

@saveitforparts 2 жыл бұрын

The owner had it checked by a mechanic prior to closing on the sale. Most of the problems are just what you get with a 35-year-old boat.

@steverudder3321 3 жыл бұрын

You guys must be very trustworthy. If it were my friends and myself, we probably would have hit Autopilot and then the bong!

@msnpassjan2004 3 жыл бұрын

Does your engine compartment vent fan run? Just saw an article recently where the back end of boat blew up because the vent fan failed and gas fumes managed to build up.

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

We ran it before starting to clear out any fumes. Couldn't leave it on all day since it makes all the dashboard gauges go funny :-P

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

And yeah, we verified that it does work.

@JohnBraman413 2 жыл бұрын

thought i seen the speed at 8kts on gauge? at that speed, that thing should have been sipping fuel. must be in need of a good tuneup.

@saveitforparts 2 жыл бұрын

I believe the owner has gotten it tuned up since we did this. Prior owner apparently only used one engine so the other had some issues.

@davekimbler2308 3 жыл бұрын

So far so good ! Lol. Did you work out your overheating situation ?

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

The owner was going to have a mechanic look at it. Our best guess is the Starboard engine just runs a little hotter because it's 35 years old, and the Port is grumpy due to older gas in that tank.

@davekimbler2308 3 жыл бұрын

@@saveitforparts that’s always possible ! Another thing is the cooling system is a closed system and if air gets to the fluid it gets hotter faster so something like a bad tank cap could cause it . How’s your boat doing ?

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

My personal boat is waiting for me to have time to get through the to-do list! The houseboat seems to be doing better after several fuel-ups, probably newer gas replacing the old stuff.

@exploring_home_minnesota 4 ай бұрын

What did it cost you in fuel per day?

@saveitforparts 4 ай бұрын

I don't remember, I wasn't the one paying for fuel so I didn't keep track. It wasn't cheap though, especially with only one engine working reliably so it couldn't go fast enough to be efficient.

@markduncan6690 3 жыл бұрын

The guy diving looks pretty dorky!

@_s827 3 жыл бұрын

How could you not tell us how you fixed the dead motor? It was just a dead fuel filter or something?

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

It never really died long-term, it just cut out occasionally and would start up again if you turned the key. We think it was old gas that had started decaying in the tank.

@barking.dog.productions1777 3 жыл бұрын

If you are going to hire saveitforparts to help out with the house boat then the first thing that you need him to do is to break out the welder and make a gas hauling tanker trailer out of a cheap trailer and a couple of 55 gallon drums... GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY buy your gas at the local road runner or 7-11 for $3 a gallon FUKZ $4.34 marina gas prices for 87 octane. and keep in mind that alcohol literally sucks water vapor out of the air so the gas in those marina tanks is no longer 10% alcohol but 10% water after a high humidity day.

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

With twin 80-gallon tanks we'd be making a lot of trips to and from the gas station! And in most of these little towns you'd be lucky to find one within 10 miles of the river.

@hellboundgrinnin Жыл бұрын

Smokers 3:23

@hellboundgrinnin Жыл бұрын

Waterworld is one of my favorite movies the critics wouldn't know a good movie if they did it would have got rave reviews

@dennisbetters8900 3 жыл бұрын

Stay out of the grass and keep the water intake screen clean and when you feel the grass is on the prop going forward stop and put it in reverse instead of going in the water

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

It was already pretty tangled when the new owner bought it. I don't think it would have come off without diving. A lot of these little marinas are just a few feet deep so there's no way to stay out of the weeds.

@dennisbetters8900 3 жыл бұрын

The worse part of the grass is,it will clog up the intake screen for the water pump and that will take out the rubber impeller best thing to do is pull the hose off of the pickup pump and blow through it and if it's hard to then you have shit in the hose and through hull which in turn will take out the impeller and cause over heating, been there done that

@dennisbetters8900 3 жыл бұрын

As you see I have a 36 footer with 2 350 Chevys

@lillianmarion2939 2 жыл бұрын

How much gas did it take to go 25 miles

@sw8282 3 жыл бұрын

next time before you leave a long trip, have it checked out BEFORE you leave

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

The buyers had it looked over by a mechanic, who said everything was fine. They mentioned low power in the Port engine but thought it was weeds in the prop, that's why I was cutting weeds out before we left.

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

After talking to some people they think the main problem was old gas, which you can't really fix other than burning through it or pumping out the tanks and disposing of it. Most of these little marinas don't have any way to empty a gas tank or anywhere to store 80 gallons of bad gas, so we just had to use it up.

@georgeanddaddecker7563 2 жыл бұрын

What does a boat like this go for $ ?

@saveitforparts 2 жыл бұрын

I forget what they paid for it, there are a lot out there for various prices depending on age / condition, probably in the $10k-20k range for this age. Sometimes marinas have really cheap ones when people skip out on the mooring fees.

@Makermook 3 жыл бұрын

I hate to sound like an idiot, but... The Mississippi River has locks?

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

There are about 30 locks between Minneapolis and St. Louis. The numbering gets a little flaky since there's a #5 and a 5A, plus the two in Minneapolis don't have official numbers. The topmost one closed a couple years ago, supposedly to block invasive fish but I think mainly because Congress won't pay for maintenance. The next two at the upper end are likely going to close soon as well, so the navigable part of the river keeps getting shorter.

@Makermook 3 жыл бұрын

@@saveitforparts -- Cool. Thanks. I guess I just thought it ran straight from the headwaters to New Orleans.

@shannonimmigrant3539 3 жыл бұрын

What country are you living in?

@alexmikhael5061 2 жыл бұрын

ummmm 3:40 if you SEE BIRDS LEGS THAT IS SHALLOW DO NOT GO OVER THERE!!! :) if you see birds SWIMMING you MAY be ok... lol someone said that

@saveitforparts 2 жыл бұрын

I need to bring my airboat to some of these spots! Although the wildlife probably wouldn't appreciate it.

@wayphyo794 3 жыл бұрын

I got it out of a junk yard.

@saveitforparts 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a fun project!

@wayphyo794 3 жыл бұрын

@@saveitforparts I'm going to Louisiana for the winter. I'm going to record the hole thing.

@alexxbishop7950 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao i live in lacrosse

@bobwalton3642 Жыл бұрын

That stove is not the most amazing piece of equipment the motors and other mechanical things also you should have been better prepared before you left you might not have had trouble then