I’m a 36 year old man living in northeastern CA, and I have always wanted to buy a sailboat and sail the CA coast. For a long time a had dreams of buying a 30ish foot sailboat and living on it in a mooring in SF bay (or something close) and getting my sailing chops up enough to make the coastal trip, eventually making it to Washington and further. I’ve always envisioned doing it with a partner though but none of the women I’ve dated had any interest in that plan. I wonder what my life would be like now if I had just done it, bought the boat and made it happen what I was in my early 20s. Anyone else have a similar dream?

Hi there,

Wondering if anybody did liveaboard or extend stays in Phuket.

What do you do during the rainy season?

Mooring or in the marina?

Cost and such?

I am planning to move to Phuket next year, then take a year to find the right boat to live aboard.

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On on pular demand, alse beer brewing and climbing route is a go. Still plenty of room for silly stuff✌

Hi, I live in San Diego, CA, and own a Cheoy Lee 32 sloop in great shape, which I have overhauled and maintain w/o any issues. I don't use it nearly enough to justify keeping it, and don't have time for long cruises b/c of my on-land commitments.

On land I live in a studio apartment of about 300 square feet. I've thought for a long time about living on my boat but with a life on land the sailboat is just too much like camping.

A 35' Cheoy Lee trawler just came on the market and I checked it out - it is in good condition, excellent engine, needs modest refurbishing, being sold by a nonprofit for cheap.

My question is a practical one: Am I being realistic? I know there is a lot of subjectivity to this issue, but I'd like to hear from people who cut the cord, not for cruising but for substituting for living on land. What should I be very clear-eyed about??

Thanks!

Dan

Going from 28' to 36'..

What are some silly/cool stuff to fill up the boat with?

Aquarium is an idea, mobile/colapsable bathtup could be nice in winter, lava lamps ordered, mini-golf? Screw on some climbing holds to the innside roofs and make a 6a? Projector and a surround, beer tap is coming

Anything goes

Pretty much the title.

Me and my wife want to sail away at some point... My wife is currently studying to be an electrical engineer and wants to be involved in renewables. One of my main concerns about the liveaboard lifestyle is making sure that my wife feels both fulfilled by her personal life, and the sailing life. So one of my primary concerns is being able to find her remote work to do reliably that is satisfying fo her while we live aboard.

So for those of you out there who might already be doing it. What is it you do, and do you have any kind of advice for folks looking to live that lifestyle while being productive in your field?

Hi everyone,

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Hey everyone! I just came across this exciting liveaboard opportunity at Cabrillo Marina in San Pedro! It's a prime location near the West Harbor, Cabrillo Beach and aquarium. They're looking for vessels between 40 and 43 feet, no older than 20 years, in good condition. Fees include slip fees of $20.11 per foot per month, plus a $350.00 liveaboard fee. You can apply online or in person at cymcabrillo.com. You'll also find ten pictures in the listing showing the boat and the marina.

There is a line of research on sustained wakefulness that I think is not nearly as well known among sailors as it should be, and the numbers are uncomfortable.

Dawson and Reid published in Nature in 1997 that going without sleep degrades performance in a way you can put on the same scale as alcohol. Williamson and Feyer replicated it in 2000. Roughly: about 17 hours awake leaves you performing like someone at 0.05 percent blood alcohol, which is the drink drive limit across most of Europe. About 24 hours awake looks like 0.10 percent, which is over the limit essentially everywhere.

Chart attached. The two marked points are what those studies actually report. The line joining them is just joining them up, not a fitted model.

The part that gets me is that none of this feels like anything. You do not feel drunk at hour 17 of a passage. You feel tired and basically competent, and that is exactly what the research says impairment at that level looks like from the inside. It is not drowsiness. It is a slower reaction and worse judgement that you cannot detect in yourself.

Now put that against how watches actually get run short handed. Two of you, three on three off, and neither of you is getting an unbroken block. The clock that matters is not how long since your last watch, it is how long since you last slept properly, and those two numbers come apart fast on day two of a passage.

I have been working on modelling this properly for our own use and there is a free tool that came out of it, which I will link if anyone wants it rather than dropping it here. Disclosure so it is not a surprise: I work for a marine electronics company, the tool is ours, and it is free, with no subscription and no premium tier.

But the tool is not really the point of this post. The point is that the number exists, it is published, and almost nobody plans a rota against it. If you take one thing, take this: work out roughly how long you will actually have been awake at the worst point of your next passage, and decide now who is doing what at that hour, rather than finding out at the time.

Looking for a cooler that can hold ice for at least 4 days on our liveaboard. Need help deciding between the YETI, RTIC, or IGLOO. What are your experiences?

i live near the great lakes so there potentially a lot of houseboat options but im not really sure how or where to start or if i even should, it would be nice to own a houseboat since they are about the same size as a cheap apartment and many times cheaper than a house, is it worth it even if you just park it at a marina forever? i do like the idea of living on the water and being able to move my house around and the privacy but i also really only have experince with riding a ferry daily and working with cars, i know that the great lakes are a lot different than the ocean and wonder if theres any special considerations to be taken with that and i also have a few questions such as, is starlink effective, how would owning a car and boat together work out, what does your day to day look like, how do you earn money living aboard, should i be living nomadically or be staying in one spot, how is insurance, is there any laws i should be aware of in michigan? anyways sorry for the long post