Living on a boat can be one of the most affordable and rewarding lifestyles. Think you’re ready to move onto a boat? Read everything you need to know about finding moorage, finding a boat, and jumping into the liveaboard life!
Living on a boat sounds cool, but is it right for your lifestyle? With real estate rocketing in cities like London, San Francisco, and Vancouver, more and more people are ditching their pricey digs for a more adventurous lifestyle: living on a boat. Living on a boat can afford you all kinds of benefits: cheap …
KEEP FOOD FRESH LONGER WITH THESE BOAT STORAGE HACKS Whether gearing up for a wilderness cruise or a long ocean passage, it can be difficult to find space for all the food you want to take; not to mention, making it all last while being jostled and knocked around onboard. After many smashed …
10 QUICK AND EASY BOAT INTERIOR DESIGN IDEAS When we first moved aboard, our sailboat interior was a mess and we didn’t have budget to update it. We wanted to go cruising and our priorities were things like new sails, rigging, fiberglass repair, and electronics. As much as I wanted a beautiful yacht interior it …
Living on a sailboat seems dreamy – but what are the trade offs? How would your life look if you didn’t have to pay rent. Would you quit your day job, become an artist or writer, sail the world? I did all these things and living on a sailboat is what made it possible. If …
Everything you need to know to go from landlubber to full-time liveaboard Ready to live on a boat year-round? You might be surprised to know that there are several steps to moving onto a boat, the last of which is actually buying a boat! Robin and I moved onto our Dufour 35 and have lived …
Liveaboard boats – the best boats to live on Shopping around, looking at liveaboard boats? While in theory it’s possible to live on just about anything that floats, the best boats to live on will have a few special features. Because there are literally endless boat makes and models (we’ve listed some at the end …
What’s it like living on a boat? You may have spent hours online, researching everything from what it costs to live on a boat to the perfect stackable space-saving cookware, but nothing will give you a better idea of the liveaboard lifestyle, than actually living on a boat! Because divesting yourself of your worldy posessions and …
Needing to find a liveaboard marina but stuck on a wait-list? You are not alone. Most big cities and marinas cap the number of liveaboard slips that are available, making it difficult to find a place to live aboard your boat. Very often this translates into multi-year wait lists at liveaboard marinas. If you’ve called …
Where is the best place to live on a liveaboard? That depends entirely on your budget, lifestyle, and boating preferences and it’s important to decide before you buy a boat because it’s not always easy to find liveaboard space (e.g. liveaboard marinas can have 10 year wait lists!). Robin and I have lived aboard for …