LIVING on Boats

[rvpopeye]

Anybody ever lived or want to live aboard a boat?

[Cammalu]

Wanted to off an on but it never happened. Seems too difficult.

[RoamerRV428]

no. never wanted to live on one due to the constraints with lake living and then never was a 'boat on the ocean' fan.
water baby and will do all things water, we owned many regular boats for fishing, water ski and all that, but never had a desire to live perm on one.

I did chat to hubby about buying a small house pontoon and dragging to lake to lake as an rv on the road home but we nixed that idea fast cause we still want ocean coastal living. Plus I don't wanna leave my vehicle in some parking lot for however long while living on a boat if we wanted to drag it to other places all alone for it to be ? who knows...lol...leaving my tow vehicle unattended for long times is the kind of thing where something bad will go down with left alone. yea that is the kind of thing that would happen to us

thought about it but that idea never floated my boat HA

[Scott7022]

I had a big boat and used to live on it in the summer. Last Call was 37 feet long with a ten foot beam. That’s largest width for you land lubbers. It had dual 350 regular rotation v8s and Volvo legs. Older ones before Volvo Penta. Main cabin, head with shower. Propane cooktop and water heater and Dickerson heater. Four sets of D6 flooded batteries and six hundred watts of solar. Oh and captains call thru hull to scare the children. It flew the Jolly Roger. Had a pretty cool sound system too. The challenges of moorage and cooling and and and. It’s a boat and that usually stands for Bout anther thousand. Or a hole in the water you throw money.


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[rvpopeye]

Still some nice plusses though huh ?
Was it in Canadian waters ? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !

[Gypsyjoe]

I can no longer use my land Yacht so will be selling it soon, it was a big old boat lol.

[Scott7022]

Started her life as a custom fishing charter out of Vancouver. Then I got her and she lived in Harrison Lake 99% of the time. One time in the chuck with me at the helm. Then it sold to a coast guard captain. “He liked big boats and he didn’t know why!” She was a heavy pig.


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[GypsyDogs]

    does this count?

Did about 12 years in an SCA household that replicated a 15th century Dutch Galleon.. as best you can on dry land.. lol
Rigging could easily handle a grown man on the main mast top.

And yes it got set up for long weekend events and taken down and carefully stored off time..  might be harder than an actual full-time boat.. LOLOL

[rvpopeye]

Is there a building under all that fabric ?

[GypsyDogs]

Nope just held up by the rigging. Though pretty darn accurate from the deck up.. lol
Though our ‘Captain’ even made the two sides of the trailer covers serve as a Hold of sorts..
1” real hemp rope with proper ropework and such. Down to I made dog collars our of bits of scrap. Looked like a solid ring of rope. Kinda kewl. Will post a pic later