Advice on living on a boat?

Bring a fat friend to float on after he's dead.

 

hahaha, yeah, lets bring you!

 

huh?! no it wasnt huge,haha...no love boat theme required...

 

Bring a sufficient supply of fresh water. Otherwise pee in your mouth and drink your urine.

 

Well, I'm a month late on this one!!
I've been living aboard for over three years on my sailboat and really love it.
Most of the time I have had a slip with water and elect. I do have solar and batteries, too.
Keep in mind the need for a head with good holding tank( can't dump inshore) or a portapotty(yuck) that needs emptying often.
You can live "on the hook" in legal anchorage for free. A dingy or kayak will get you to the beach and a bike will get you to the store.
Boat people are sort of a commune because we all help each other and do a lot of outdoor meals together. Its a lifestyle!
I bought a boat that suited me (being alone) but am planning on upgrading soon.
The other thing is that It would be nice to find a lady to share this paradise with... any takers???

 

^ Sailboat experience, perfect! Get ready for a million questions, pal...

1. What size boat do you recommend for starters? Like cookiec says, cabin cruisers are much roomier than sailboats. So are we talking 40' or so?

2. Sloop, ketch or yawl? Bear in mind my sailing experience is limited to itty bitty dingys ...but I'm a fast learner. And I haven't sunk anything yet. Also, how much should I expect to spend on a boat? Feel free to suggest your favorite makes & models, best hull material, etc, etc, etc...

3. Yucky stuff: yeah um... how bad is the head experience? lol, once an old sailor described it to me thus:

"Imagine taking a piss in an RV during Mardi Gras with a motorcycle gang outside shaking the place to hell and yelling, 'show us your tits!' "

4. Where's the best place on earth to tie up? Tell me sea stories!

 

i never miss an oppotunity to promote veggie oil use and this is no exception. im currently land-yaughting it in our box truck, but the dream is to get a boat, which we will promptly convert to veggie oil. so get a boat with a diesel engine if you want this option. get your fuel from marina restaurants...

 

40' is a lot of boat to singlehand but it can be done. Sloop is easy and effective.
There's stilllots of cheap stuff left over from last year's storms that won't cost too much to bring back up.

 

Oh yeah, the potty thing... offshore a bucket is used but inshore no dumping is allowed. Most places have a pump-out for your holding tanks that is easy and clean to use.
Best place? have not found it yet. Where I am now is about as cheap as I've heard of to keep a boat in a slip and I'm in the town marina.
There's a 26' Catalina here for $2000 that is a damn good deal and would be a good starter boat. It is big enough for a single person and space enough for a second who is close.

 

I just bought a sailboat this week, can't wait for the adventures to begin! I was going to liveaboard one last summer, but after living in my car for a few months, decided I needed a little more room and freedom. As long as you love the open sea, living aboard could be great. but living in a harbor isnt' much different than in a trailor park. shared bathrooms and showers, peace and quiet, the clanking of shackles on masts all night, ah, i love that sound

 

Yup, I gotta agree with the clanking (devil's tatoo) of those who don't care for their rigging.

Shared showers suck... I shower on the dock with the hose. It is nice having their elect and running water, tho.

Out town marina is pretty small and only has a half dozen livaboards.

 

i have thought a lot about living on a boat !

perhaps you could find people who would sail from destination to destination with you to help destroy the bordom and also to pay for some of the expenses. it would be easy to put a little ad online for a sailing trip from like maine to nova scotia to prince edward island and start a little business or something. those are just areas near me. people take lots of summer trips through maine and the islands. i am sure there is a lot involved with sailing and knowing how to stay safe in storms and navigate shiping lanes and to plan a docking situation for each destination but that would make it fun. community colleges sometimes have boating rules and safety classes and things like that.

i am more interested in sailing then docking because it seems more exciting. i dont eat seafood but if you did you could probably catch fish fairly easily and it would be fun to do.
anyway that is how i thought about doing things. kayaks would be a great way to get off the boats too explore and things as well. then you could just anchor and go into town that way.

my friends and i are interested in saving up some money for something like this if we could find a good sailboat and some money to spend along the way it would be lots of fun and you wouldn't need much in the way of clothing once your out on the high seas.

oh it doesnt take long to get to places on a boat. hawaii is like 30 days and so if you bring books and perhaps lovers and things the time would go by pretty quick. plus if you go on trips to south america or something you wouldn't have to be far from the shore at all. i bet there are ways to have television and things like huge yatchs do but the sailboat might bouch around to much i dont know. i for one want to sail up the coast of british columbia to alaska more than anything else. but people could easily sail around the world if they wanted to. with a group of friends it would cost much less then it would independently. it would be like a commune especially if you found a second boat to travel with you. i read an article in the october 1968 issue of national geographic about a teenager and his cat sailing around the world in a small sailboat. it was great. but he said he was bored because he was alone all day long with nothing to do. but if you setup a stove and had a few people along it might be cramped but would be really fun too.

I would be afraid of pirates as well. seriously. i think it might be a problem where you could get kidnapped and held for ransom or sold into slavery. that is why i would stockup on bolt action sniper rifles and semi automatic close combat weapons. he heheheheh! but this for me is a big problem cause i would be tempted towards piracy and especially smuggling!

 

Many owners install a watermaker on board and consider it to be a key element in there efforts toward self-sufficiency.

 

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I want to do this too, live on a boat that is. It's been on my mind for some years now. Along with getting a jeep one day and driving all over the planet with it, from US to South America to Africa to Europe to Asia to Australia. I have this thing of not being able to stay in one place for a longer period of time. I need to move. And I love flying, but it's not really possible to live in an airplane like you can in a car or a boat, unfortunately.

 

wow! i never thought about living on a boat before... id like to try it!"

 

I suppose learning to navigate with a sextant would be very important. And charts of everyplace you are going to sail. One little unknown rock a few feet under the water could ruin your life. Or take it. I suggest meeting someone that sails and learn from them. I lived and sailed on a 40 foot Tri in Hawaii and can't say that I would be a good sailor. I sailed a Hobie off Kailua on Oahu to teach myself the basics. Remember---if anything CAN go wrong--it will. And at sea will be the worst possible time.

 

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/volvooceanrace/interactives/sailing/index.html

 

get some bitches and pop the cristal playa

 

I lived on my boat for 2 years on Lake Lanier near Atlanta GA Loved it. Inland lakes are a lot different from the ocean. I say go for it. There is a lot to learn about water and electricity. I've switched to vandwelling now and camping off the land. Weird is GOOD