Houseboats

thumb|A houseboat on Lake Union in [[Seattle, Washington, US|alt=A houseboat on Lake Union in Seatlle, Washington, US]] thumb|Houseboat Cornelia in Ystad, Sweden, 2018

Houseboat and recording studio

1958 film by Melville Shavelson

thumb|A backwater view with houseboat from Biyyam Lake, Ponnani, [[India]] thumb|A Kerala houseboat in [[Alappuzha, India]] thumb|A kettuvallam houseboat with an upper deck

thumb|300px|Shikara on the Sukhna Lake, Chandigarh The shikara () is a type of wooden boat found on Dal Lake and other water bodies of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir. Shikaras are of various sizes and are used for multiple purposes, including transportation. A usual shikara seats six people, with the driver paddling at the rear. Like the Venetian gondolas, they are a cultural symbol of Kashmir. Some shikaras are still used for fishing, harvesting aquatic vegetation (usually for fodder), and transport, while most are covered with tarpaulins and are used by tourists. A Shikara ride in Dal Lake is

thumb|right|Modern narrowboats for leisure cruising, Bugsworth Basin, [[Buxworth, Derbyshire, England]]

lake in King County, Washington, USA

traditional houseboats of the Sama-Bajau people