There is perhaps a difference perhaps between a houseboat and a canal boat.
He is referring to what is their home now, the cabin of a canal boat.
A boat that is static and is used for full-time residential use is a houseboat; a canal boat that moves is a pleasure boat.
One involves visiting different castles by bicycle or canal boat.
I am absolutely opposed to the canal boat companies getting anything out of child labour.
Here is a child of school age living on a canal boat.
For many years, the so-called movable dwelling has had an established place in public health legislation, as has the canal boat.
One horse, quite thirty years of age, lame and emaciated, has been brought out to work as a canal boat horse.