RV --> Boat thread

[phrogpilot73]

I've got a buddy that as a young Ensign, he bought a sailboat and lived aboard it at his first duty station (Oceana). When he got orders to NPS - he brought it with him (don't know if he sailed it there or had someone move it), and lived aboard it in Monterey. He's now at USNA, and still owns the boat - I'll have to ask him if he still lives aboard it... Truth be told, I think he does since he only has a cell phone and a P.O. Box for contact info.

 

[insanebikerboy]

I've got a buddy that as a young Ensign, he bought a sailboat and lived aboard it at his first duty station (Oceana). When he got orders to NPS - he brought it with him (don't know if he sailed it there or had someone move it), and lived aboard it in Monterey. He's now at USNA, and still owns the boat - I'll have to ask him if he still lives aboard it... Truth be told, I think he does since he only has a cell phone and a P.O. Box for contact info.

We may be thinking of the same guy, maybe not, but my company officer lived on a boat in Edgewater my firstie year. He had all of his uniform crap in the office, plus his fiance seemed to dig the boat.

 

[insanebikerboy]

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).

Maybe you should just stick with hockey.....?

 

[BlackBearHockey]

Does this mean we'll see FLYTPAY and MB fighting on cops over who wins the AW living quarters award? :icon_tong

 

[schwarti]

Just got back from a few days on Cape Cod Bay in my father's Beneteau 42... not sure if I'd like to live on board, but it sure is great to head out for a while.

 

[Swanee]

Maybe you should just stick with hockey.....?

Yeah, I seriously thought about it.

But that's what happens when you get a bunch of college dinghy racers on a keel boat. I haven't had any issues since then though.

 

[phrogpilot73]

We may be thinking of the same guy, maybe not, but my company officer lived on a boat in Edgewater my firstie year. He had all of his uniform crap in the office, plus his fiance seemed to dig the boat.

Probably not, my buddy is an Oceanography professor, and was never a company officer...

 

[WheelsUpHeelsUp]

Keep your skimmer, my stinkpot ain't yielding if I was there first!

 

[Gatordev]

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.

Storage is definitely a problem w/out a plan. When I was younger, my folks had a yard sale, then whatever wasn't sold went into a storage unit. We moved aboard a 35' Hallberg-Rassy ketch. Wasn't too bad when I was 9, kind of small by the time I was 12.

Suwanee, my folks currently live/cruise on a Pearson 424. Nice boat and a good size for the two of them, both size-wise and sailing-wise.

How does she drope deuce whilst underway?

I've seen different methods. One boat we traveled with for some time had a cat and a dog. The dog had a plastic door mat that went down on the bow. The dog took care of business every morning and then they had a salt-water hose to spray it down.