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Home • Living Afloat • Converted barges and their moorings • Converted barges in Ghent

Converted barges in Ghent #2

Ghent is the place in Belgium to find houseboats. over 250 boats are moored there, most of them barges of the 'Spits' type. There are some very nice vessels, but there are many boats that do damage the reputation of the honest and serious people living afloat.


Converted spits with mooring in Ghent


Spits being converted in Ghent for use as houseboat

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Converted spits, in need of some paint, with a mooring in Ghent


Spits being shortened in Ghent, before conversion into a houseboat


Nicely maintained spits, used as a houseboat in Ghent


One of the earliest spits houseboats in Ghent.


Luxury converted Spits in Ghent

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Spits, used as a houseboat in Ghent, with mooring


Houseboats in Ghent


Abandoned inland vessel and a wine shop on a boat in Ghent


Houseboats in Ghent (Steilsteven scrapped in 2006)


Katwijker used as houseboat in Ghent


Spits converted to a houseboat in Ghent

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