No Sea Shantys Can Help Sell This Houseboat

July 6, 2022 | Mimi Perez | | Wednesday WTF

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“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.”

There is not an adult who grew up in the 1970s that does not know the theme song to Gilligan’s Island. In your head, you were singing those lyrics. It is okay, you are not alone.

“The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.”

Okay, I take issue with this stanza. The skipper may have been brave and sure but the mate, Gilligan, was not a mighty sailing man. I put it before all of you that if the castaways had simply tied up and gagged Gilligan they could have been off the island in a week. It is a proven scientific fact. Look it up if you do not believe me.

Now I bring up Gilligan and the castaways because the home featured this week reminded of the shipwrecked SS Minnow in that it looks like it crashed onto a deserted island. Oh, I should add that the owners of this home had it built as a replica of the Mayflower.

Yes, that Mayflower.

Now before you start thinking that this is a houseboat, the answer is yes but not that kind of houseboat.

“Built in 1929 to resemble the Mayflower …” is how the description begins. The only thing missing is the sand and the castaways sitting in front of the houseboat.

The alleged Mayflower replica can be found at 119 Leons Road, Hoffmeister, New York. This three-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath house is 1,621 square feet and sits on one-and-a-half acres. The owners are asking $159K.

“No phone, no lights, no motor car,
Not a single luxury,
Like Robinson Crusoe,
It’s primitive as can be.”

Oh, I should have warned you to take some Dramamine before looking at these pictures. It is not the photographer that took a crooked picture.

Told ya.

You would think ol’ MaryAnn there would have done a solid and moved out of the frame.

Now the galley is not too bad.

In all sincerity, I really do love these next two pictures. You can just tell how much the owners love their house.

Not only do they have a wall dedicated to pictures of their house but they even took the time to paint a picture of their house and hang it on the wall. Then, they zoomed in on the painted picture and used it as one of the photos to help sell the house. We should all be lucky enough to find someone who loves us as much as they love this house.