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The Sealander: camper on land, boat in water WHAT?
You can haul it through the forest and park it at the lake, then slide it into the water on its trailer. Your camper will float.
It has a convertible top, although the walls stay where they are. It’s kind of like the entrance to a cabin on a sail boat.
You can mount your boat motor on the back of the unit, on the ledge where the convertible top raises.
The cabin has two long bench seats; one along each side. They appear waterproof. Then a person can install a cabin-style (or RV / campervan style) table in the middle of the bench seats. The bench seats can also be pulled toward the center to create a padded surface area over the entire cabin — as a bed or mat.
Its German-made.
“The Sealander is a caravan and yacht in one. The high quality and aesthetics of boat-building are combined with the flexibility of a mobile home. Its dynamic and modern design expresses lightness and agility. For your perfect day out in every environment,” the company says on its website.
It’s touted as the first amphibian camper, but that might be a bit misleading, because we have amphibian campers and even camper-planes on this website.
The Camper-Boat Hybrid Sails Again
Some great things happened in 1969, and one of the interesting vehicular developments to come out on the lots that year (1969-1970) was this boat-slash-camper. It’s called a Terra Marina, and it was made by Aqua-Trail (interesting name).
There’s actually a few of these around still. They look like a trailer, yes, but then they have two pontoon boats underneath them. The pontoon boat in the back serves as a deck!
And the boat motor is mounted to the back of the deck/ back of a pontoon boat.
It kind of seems to me like anyone could make one of these boat/camper RV units.
The way they set it up, they put the trailer under it all so that the wheels of the (2-wheel trailer) sit between the two pontoon boats.
The company (Aqua-trail) made around 35 units of these in the Sacramento area.
Tin can tourists explains how you launch them: “The trailer was designed to be used both as a houseboat and camping trailer. It is totally self-contained. When brought to lake the sides are lifted and the pontoons slide out and are secured. The entire craft is then released to roll into the water. It has a top speed of 7 knots and is easy to control.”
The RV has all the amenities normal RV trailers have: bathroom, shower head, kitchen, furniture, table,
