Joe Manchin is going home to the place he belongs. The West Virginia senator’s Thursday announcement that he won’t seek reelection next year. Manchin drives an Italian sportscar and lives in Washington on a luxury yacht.
Where does Joe Manchin live? Inside his luxury Washington home
Joe Manchin’s houseboat is the hottest ticket in Washington, Manchin lives on a boat because he doesn’t like living here.
Manchin lives there when he is in town, it could be just as easily described as a houseboat” though he purchased it for $220,000.
According to Boats.com, any vessel “over 40 feet long almost always qualifies” as a yacht. By the length standard alone, that would qualify “Almost Heaven” as a yacht.
The vessel, built in 2001, is 65 feet long, according to Coast Guard documents provided to PolitiFact by the NRSC.
Manchin himself said of the semi-mysterious doings onboard his precious vessel. “There’s gatherings we have on Almost Heaven. We know each other and talk to each other.
The U.S. senator from West Virginia was sporting a bandage on his forehead while talking to reporters, an injury he says he sustained fixing a sink, not partying, on the boat.
