-
Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?
Go here:
Edit Account Details and Profile
RV --> Boat thread
- Thread starter FLYTPAY
- Start date
WVUBetaHornet
Sweep the leg..
That's pretty interesting/awesome..
What was it like...perks?...downfalls?...etc..
Any future plans to buy a yacht now?
That's pretty interesting/awesome..
What was it like...perks?...downfalls?...etc..
Any future plans to buy a yacht now?
Something that always irks me (having grown up on a sailboat). A sailboat does not equal a yacht. If someone calls it a sailboat, chances are it's not anywhere near a yacht, especially since most people who refer to their "yacht" only mention it because they want you to know they have a yacht.
FLTYPAY:
I'd be curious to know how easy that was. I was under the impression that San Diego wasn't the most friendly to long-term live-aboards.
MB:
I'll split this if we go on the tangent ride.
WVUBetaHornet
Sweep the leg..
Haha, I wasn't insinuating that a sailboat and a yacht are at all equal in either size, value, or any kind of measure as such...just making a harmless quip in asking if his term in which he lived on a sailboat would at all entice him into one day buying a great big(ger) 'boat,' or yacht to live on..
But hey, we don't have to split hairs on this one.. Brick BBQ's = Amazing...I would have destroyed it rather than let her have/take it..
I had a Catalina 30. When I bought it, it was at Harbor Island Yacht Club. I was not aware that the slip did not transfer so I found myself scurrying to get a slip for it. Luckily I got a slip at the amphib base for dirt cheap. (There was a 2 year wait for slips and I got one in less than two weeks) San Diego does not welcome LT live-aboards like other places might. Each marina has a certain number that they can have, of course many people become enthusiastic boaters due to the rules. I made sure I had my sailboat out pretty much every day. Needless to say, I know what it is like to have your home take on water, catch fire, and I was even almost killed by the mast but that is a different thread for a different day
Haha, I wasn't insinuating that a sailboat and a yacht are at all equal in either size, value, or any kind of measure as such...just making a harmless quip in asking if his term in which he lived on a sailboat would at all entice him into one day buying a great big(ger) 'boat,' or yacht to live on..
Brick BBQ's = Amazing...I would have destroyed it rather than let her have/take it..
Sailboat.... great idea till you get orders to Fallon.
But hey, we don't have to split hairs on this one..
I'm with ya. It's just something I like to make sure people understand, lest they get the wrong idea. A lot of people live on a boat and cruise and everyone thinks they're living on a huge Hatteras w/ Robin Leech hanging out in the salon when in fact they're living on something that's smaller than many people's living room.
FLYTPAY:
Let's hear the stories. I moved this to another thread so we can compare fire-starter stories.
Haven't lived aboard, but am an avid sailor. May be a part-time retirement option down the road, so I'm also interested in people's experiences.
Brett
I haven't lived on any boats, but I have spent my fair share of time on them. One thing that is always troublesome is storage space. You have to find room for all the boat shit that you need (sails, line, fenders, etc...) and you have to have all of your regular stuff.
I know a Master Chief who lived in an Oday 30 for 5 years, and it amazed me how little he actually had. In fact, he used the back of his van as a closet. Still there is something to be said about being able to pick up and leave it all behind for a while. It would be a nice way to travel the world, that is for sure.
I spent the better part of a spring/summer on a Pearson 35. For just one person it would be a somewhat comfortable fit, but there was 4 of us, and damn, we didn't have any room. But this was also the boat that was struck by lightning in a storm off the coast of S. Carolina, ran into a bridge, blew out the diesel engine (so we pushed it around with our RIB, if you can imagine one guy in the RIB running the engine, one guy with his legs in the RIB and his hands on the transom of the boat, third guy at the wheel and the fourth guy on the bow) and ran hard aground in the Caribbean all in the same trip (but we traded beer for some lobsters out of that deal).
I know a Master Chief who lived in an Oday 30 for 5 years, and it amazed me how little he actually had. In fact, he used the back of his van as a closet. Still there is something to be said about being able to pick up and leave it all behind for a while. It would be a nice way to travel the world, that is for sure.
I spent the better part of a spring/summer on a Pearson 35. For just one person it would be a somewhat comfortable fit, but there was 4 of us, and damn, we didn't have any room. But this was also the boat that was struck by lightning in a storm off the coast of S. Carolina, ran into a bridge, blew out the diesel engine (so we pushed it around with our RIB, if you can imagine one guy in the RIB running the engine, one guy with his legs in the RIB and his hands on the transom of the boat, third guy at the wheel and the fourth guy on the bow) and ran hard aground in the Caribbean all in the same trip (but we traded beer for some lobsters out of that deal).
Never have lived aboard, but I think I could have when I was younger and when I didn't have so much junk. But my wife, while she loves to sail, would never live aboard for long.
However, my beautiful blonde girlfriend – pictured below in her favorite starboard quarter-berth position – would love to live aboard. She's a salty ol' dog and a true seafaring bitch!
Her name is Bailey, and she can "bark" commands better than any salty old-school skipper!
However, my beautiful blonde girlfriend – pictured below in her favorite starboard quarter-berth position – would love to live aboard. She's a salty ol' dog and a true seafaring bitch!
Her name is Bailey, and she can "bark" commands better than any salty old-school skipper!
Attachments
Never have lived aboard, but I think I could have when I was younger and when I didn't have so much junk. But my wife, while she loves to sail, would never live aboard for long.
However, my beautiful blonde girlfriend – pictured below in her favorite starboard quarter-berth position – would love to live aboard. She's a salty ol' dog and a true seafaring bitch!
Her name is Bailey, and she can "bark" commands better than any salty old-school skipper!
How does she drope deuce whilst underway?
Brett
She better not, or I'll keelhaul the mangy dog!How does she drope deuce whilst underway?
Brett
Short sails help, and she's good for about 12+ hours holding it. She doesn't whizz either, but she could. The boat is fiberglass, and seagulls dump on it often, so she could but doesn't. (Fortlunately, she doesn't drink beer underway, or the scuppers would be yellow.) How about you?
She better not, or I'll keelhaul the mangy dog!
Short sails help, and she's good for about 12+ hours holding it. She doesn't whizz either, but she could. The boat is fiberglass, and seagulls dump on it often, so she could but doesn't. (Fortlunately, she doesn't drink beer underway, or the scuppers would be yellow.) How about you?
Depends on who's watching.
Brett