On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:17:36 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: > >This choice was presented to me a while back as something I need to consider. >The obvious question, which I neglected to ask, was: What is the difference? > If you are talking about a boat purchase, then the reason you need to think about this is so that you buy a suitable boat. If you intend to live on a boat at the dock, moving only rarely, then you won't need a blue water capable boat. It's the difference between living in a mobile home which is tied to a pad and is never moved (unless the park closes) and living in one of these big RVs which travels all over the country.
>On further reflection, I deduced the difference is the comparison between a >float house, personal barge and a boat I can live on while traveling. I >further assume the latter implies a simplified inventory and life style. > By float house I guess you mean houseboat. I am not sure that the simplified life style is correct though. Living aboard while traveling is MORE complicated and not less. All the requirements for daily living require much more effort and planning. As Rick points out - the terms are not mutually exclusive. You can be a liveaboard without cruising, and you can be a cruiser without living aboard or you can do both. I would have considered us part time liveaboards because we lived aboard (and cruised) for six months of the year, but we still retained a house. That meant that we had BOTH all the problems of house ownership AND the problems of boat ownership to deal with. Amusingly, when we take the boat out of the water for the winter now, we strip the electronics and soft furnishings and sails etc off the boat, and we've had to hire a storage unit for that stuff because we really can NOT take all of that stuff into the house - there's just not room. As far as the simplified inventory - one of the things to look at when you buy a boat is whether the boat has the configuration that will allow what you want to do. Typically even an apartment has more space to store stuff than a boat, and more room. What people often have to do when they move onto a boat is to downsize their possessions. But at the same time, they are adding other possessions to their inventory - stuff for the boat. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
