I am planning to embark on a dream of mine, building a houseboat. I've seen all the various types of boat kits available and have pretty much decided that a "pontoon kit" would work best for me. I'm thinking that around 50' x 12' would be ideal. I thought about all the time involved in the building process and the cost to do all the wiring, plumbing, superstructure, etc. and was wondering if it was reasonable to build the pontoon deck structure and instead of doing the actual building of the "house" structure if I bought a 35' to 40' travel trailer and fastened it to the deck? By the way, I would be using the houseboat on closed lakes. Other than the proper fastening of the rv to the deck I cannot think of a reason why this would not work, perhaps others have done this or have heard of this...it seems so much easier and cheaper to have a ready made house (rv) than to do all the work of building one. I realize that there would be modifications needed to make this work. Any imput or advice on this kind of setup would be greatly appreciated....thank you!

GROC