After approximately eight years, an abandoned houseboat has been removed from the shoreline of Lake Lanier near Sinclair Shores Road. On Monday, crews used an excavator to drag the locally proclaimed “Museum Houseboat” hundreds of yards from where it has sat since at least 2010, removing most of its parts, placing them in a rollaway Dumpster and loading the hull of the boat on a trailer for removal. “We are removing an abandoned vessel that has been really problematic for about eight years now on Lake Lanier.