B.O.A.T. Bring Out Another Thousand. Boat living isn't a move to the economy side of the world. All the comforts of a small apartment, with all the maintenance of a large estate house, with special pricing for all the "boat parts" because they are "boat and special".
Add dock fees, shore power fees, sewer connection fees, [all at premium price], then add haul out and dry dock fees to scrape the hull, refurbish the [insert anything on the boat the dry dock folks find that "needs fixed while it's out of the water"] and you could live in a large estate with a circle drive and servants for less. Then, with a boat, where do you park your car? Work on your car/s? Bad weather? Winter? All that boat needs protection. Storm? Hope you have insurance that covers acts of God. If you really love the water and boats, cost and inconvenience is no object. If you don't have that level of intensity for the life, or lose it while owning a boat, it becomes inconvenient. Very inconvenient. Purus the "boats for sale" ads and you will find many fine boats for sale by owner that are living testimony of that syndrome. BTDT, cured. If it floats, rent it. Grant... On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > A bit different but similar. >> I watched a youtube video a couple of nights back of a guy who lived in a >> 27 foot sailboat in the Ala Wai harbour in Honolulu for 15 years before he >> retired and went cruising. >> He wanted a 40 foot boat but felt he could not afford it. He was >> convinced to buy the smaller boat and learned to live with it. He >> ultimately married and the 2 of them live on the boat. >> They have subsequently cruised it to San Francisco and to Alaska, and >> probably other places but those are ones I recall. They talk about how they >> had to adapt to having very few possessions etc. >> I found it interesting. I love boats but have not plans to sail the >> oceans of the world. I wouldn't mind living on a boat in Honolulu but I >> might never leave the dock. >> >> RB >> > > I have a shyster friend who lived on a boat in Tampa for years. It may > have been 15. I never ventured to that part of the world while he was > there. Went to FL on a biz trip , and went to dizzyworld when it was > fresh, and saw enough desert and old people, that I never wanted to go back. > > I often wanted to live on a boat in my years in HI. The high real estate > prices were killer. But living on a boat at Ali Wai kinda defeats the > purpose. THat is high rent all the way. I just wanted somewhere I could > tie up the boat without it being bashed on rocks. I could not afford a boat > because all my money went for rent. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
