A Question for Liveaboards
Candace’s questions are so broad that your answers could easily fill a book. However, choose your prime reason for initially deciding to live on the water and for remaining aboard thereafter, then let us hear from you. Thank you in advance!
I’m considering buying a boat and living on the water. I also do own a condo to stay at if I choose. How long have you lived on the water & what do you consider challenging issues? Thank you!
Candace
Comments from Cruisers (2)
” Buying a boat” could mean you are purchasing Trump’s old yacht for several million or fixing up an old trawler or sailboat for cheap and anywhere in between. Having a condo might mean you have a slip or not. We need more info to actually help. Suggest you hang out on some of the forums and get to know a good surveyor of the type of boats you are interested in. The surveyor we used stayed with us on each boat we looked at electronically via smartphone and was a lifesaver. We looked at over 50 boats before we found one, talked to 70 or so brokers and only met one we could trust (not the one we bought from) The pictures on yacht world and all are a fair place to start but you can’t smell cat pee on a picture. We have been aboard 17 years on sailboat and then 5 years on our trawler. we don’t own anything on land. See our blog for more info http://ontheofficewautoteacher.blogspot.com/
I suggest you review the many videos on YOUTUBE. They are very informative and pretty much answer all your questions, even some you probably didn’t or wouldn’t think of. SAIL LIFE, WICKED SALTY, SAILING UMA, LATITUDE ADJUSTMENT are just a few to get you started.