boathouse

A boathouse (or a boat house) is a building especially designed for the storage of boats, normally smaller craft for sports or leisure use. describing the facilities These are typically located on open water, such as on a river. Often the boats stored are rowing boats. Other boats such as punts or small motor boats may also be stored.

A boathouse may be the headquarters of a boat club or rowing club and used to store racing shells, in which case it may be known as a shell house.

Boat houses may also include a restaurant, bar,A Description of a boat house
or other leisure facilities, perhaps for members of an associated club. They are also sometimes modified to include living quarters for people, or the whole structure may be used as temporary or permanent housing.

In Scandinavia, the boathouse is known as a ''naust'', a word deriving from Old Norse ''naverstað''. These were typically built with stone walls and timber roofs and would be either open to the sea or provided with sturdy doors. The floors would be a simple continuation of the beach sand or rock, or they might be dug down to permit a boat to sail into the boathouse. The boathouse is also seen on riversides or lake sides.

Gallery

File:EdinburghBoathouse.jpg, Edinburgh Canal Society boathouse on the Union Canal
File:Henley on Thames-Along the Thames.JPG, Boathouses on the River Thames at Henley-on-Thames, England
File:Boathouse_Row-wide.JPG, Boathouse Row on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, United States
File:Israeli_boathouse.jpg, Racing shells stored inside a boathouse in Israel
File:Alexandra Gardens Boathouses.jpg, Boathouses on the Yarra River in Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne, Australia
File:Naust i øygarden.jpg, Boathouses in western Norway
File:09-07-27 Naust Gloppen.jpg, Log boathouse by Nordfjord
File:Steinnaust.jpg, Stone-walled Norwegian boathouse set into a hillside
File:Closeup of boathouse 2.jpg, Closeup of the second boathouse at Topridge
File:Knollwood Club on Lower Saranac Lake.jpg, Knollwood Club boathouse on Lower Saranac Lake in the United States
File:Boathouse at Katja.jpg, Stone boathouse at Camp Katia on Upper St. Regis Lake, United States
File:Boathouse at Camp Wild Air, Upper St Regis Lake, NY.jpg, Boathouse at Camp Wild Air, Upper St. Regis Lake, United States
File:Durham School Boat Club - boat house summer.jpg, Durham School Boat Club's boathouse seen from Prebends Bridge, United Kingdom
File:Jona (SG) - Busskirch St Martin IMG 2222.JPG, Boathouse on upper Lake Zürich in Jona-Busskirch, Switzerland
File:Zürichsee - Erlenbach IMG 2102.JPG, Boathouse on Lake Zürich in Zollikon, Switzerland
File:Emmanuel College boathouse - geograph.org.uk - 991188.jpg, Emmanuel College boathouse on the Cam at Cambridge, United Kingdom
File:Reed Point Marina Boathouse 2.jpg, Large boathouses in Reed Point Marina, Canada
File:Reed Point Marina Boathouse 3.jpg, Another style of boathouse in Reed Point Marina, Canada
File:2bootshausKRG.jpg, The floating boathouse of the Kölner Rudergesellschaft 1891 in Cologne, Germany
File:Central Park - Kerbs Memorial Boathouse (48377218702).jpg, The Kerbs Memorial Boathouse on Conservatory Water in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City
File:Art work of Toledo, Ohio - DPLA - 0a107364e8d8eb430ebc183d28c46463 (page 33) (cropped).jpg, Riverside Pavilion and Boathouse in Toledo, Ohio, 1895

See also

*Boatshed
* Houseboat, a boat used as a house.
* Stilt house
*List of Charles River boathouses

References

3. Drower, George, `A boat's abode: boathouses of the River Thames', ''House & Garden'', March 1990, pp54-58

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