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Dec 29, 2021 · Joe Machin's yacht, Almost Heaven, has been making a lot of news lately. Here are all the details on his luxury boat insured for $700,000.
Dec 26, 2021 · Manchin’s 65-footer, built in 2001 by Custom Steel Boats of Merritt, N.C., is named Almost Heaven, a reference needing no explanation. The question is whether the vessel is really a yacht and...
Oct 3, 2021 · Democratic senator Joe Manchin had an awkward exchange with protesters from the deck of his yacht this week as his party was forced to delay voting on two infrastructure bills because he has...
Aug 6, 2021 · Washington’s hottest club is Joe Manchin’s houseboat. By Ben Terris. August 6, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. EDT. Earlier this year, Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), right, slipped while disembarking Almost...
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- It’s not a yacht. Republicans tried to paint Manchin as yacht-owning “Washington Joe” during his 2018 reelection campaign. Mmmm, not quite: “The vessel is listed as ‘recreational’ on documents,” PolitiFact wrote in a fact-check.
- Its value is relatively modest for a DC residence. Manchin bought the boat at a fire-sale price of $220,000 but insured it for $700,000, PolitiFact reported.
- Manchin lives on a boat because he doesn’t like living here. Yawn to performative Washington-hating, but chagrin about where he’s docked seems to be part of Manchin’s shtick: “‘My worst day as governor was better than my best day as senator,’ ” he told GQ in 2018.
- Senators like to party on Almost Heaven. Pizza, beer, and merlot are often served on the boat, Time reported in 2014: “Manchin routinely invites Senators from both parties out for evening cruises. ‘
Oct 5, 2018 · The NRSC said that Manchin has a “$700,000 D.C. luxury yacht.” There’s no dispute that Manchin has a boat docked in Washington, D.C. Its 40-foot length would generally qualify it as a yacht, but since Manchin lives there when he is in town, it could be just as easily described as a houseboat.
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Aug 6, 2021 · U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, was sporting a bandage on his brow this week for a wound he said he sustained while working on a sink in his houseboat.
