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These houseboat dudes have plenty boats on offer if you want to cruise around for a week or two. Our group rented a boat for a week starting in cassale.
Up first we had to attend a mandatory safety class for about 20 minutes. Topics included best practices for parallel parking (depends on the direction of current) tips to avoid grounding, and route suggestions.
After that we loaded our luggage and another dude went over the specifics of our boat and administered a driving test.
The boats are quite nice. Ours has 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, a shower, and an inside living area and a top deck. There's wifi, a stove, refrigerator, and kitchen area too.
I thought the boat would have a higher top speed but they probably keep the engine on the weak side on purpose. Water taxis in Venice zip by you.
If you know somebody with boat driving experience it's definitely worth checking out. They even rent bikes that you can ride around on. Or (in my case) ride to the next marina on.