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SUN TRAVEL STORY: 5-STAR HOUSEBOATING ON LAKE POWELL

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Vacationing Large in a Five Star Houseboat Canadian boats let Lake Powell visitors put on the Ritz .     First class on Lake Powell Posh pampering on board Canadian-built luxury houseboats     By STEPHEN WEIR, TORONTO SUN Sun, June 4 / 06     If the plush deep padding of the houseboat sofa wasn't already absorbing your Speedo covered derriere; you'd probably be on your keester anyway. The shocking beauty of the sword-edge cliffs that line the famous Utah/Arizona watercourse will stagger even the most jaded holiday boater. There are places along the Lake Powell Canyon system that are so narrow you can lean out from either side of the upper deck of the rented five-star houseboat and touch the smooth 200 metre tall walls. So abrupt are the sandstone cliffs it is only at noon that the sun will light the flybridge of your $10,000 US a-week-floating condo. A super-sized Bald Eagle lazily circles above in the scorching desert updrafts; hungrily eyeing the Canadian tourists stewing i

Living Large on Lake Powell - World's Number One Houseboat Destination

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. HOUSEBOAT IN NAME ONLY Living Large on Lake Powell aboard a Canadian built mini-cruise ship By Stephen Weir BOATING BUSINESS MAGAZINE 3.24.06 … There are sections of canyon lining Arizona’s Lake Powell where the direct light of day only reaches the deck of passing luxury built Canadian houseboats at high noon. Looking like Mother Nature’s T-square, the sandstone walls soar 200 feet straight up from the blue cool waters of the waterway. Situated at the top of the Grand Canyon system, the man-made lake, with its 2,000 mile coastline, is the world’s number one houseboat destination. In fact, the breath-taking beauty and the relative ease of boating on Lake Powell are credited with kick starting both the concept of five-star American house boating vacations and the luxury houseboat building industry in British Columbia. Imagine an on-the-water vacation aboard a 75 ft long houseboat that comes complete with central air, a corporate sized hot tub, a wine cellar and a theatre-style enter