Everything you need to know to go from landlubber to full-time liveaboard Ready to live on a boat year-round? You might be surprised to know that there are several steps to moving onto a boat, the last of which is actually buying a boat! Robin and I moved onto our Dufour 35 and have lived
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What to look for in a liveaboard boat
Shopping around, looking at liveaboard boats? While in theory it’s possible to live on just about anything that floats, the best boats to live on will have a few special features. Because there are literally endless boat makes and models (we’ve listed some at the end of this post), I’m going to cover 3 important
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5 ways to test-drive the liveaboard life
What’s it like living on a boat? You may have spent hours online, researching everything from what it costs to live on a boat to the perfect stackable space-saving cookware, but nothing will give you a better idea of the liveaboard lifestyle, than actually living on a boat! Because divesting yourself of your worldy posessions and
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Find a liveaboard marina & skip the wait list
Needing to find a liveaboard marina but stuck on a wait-list? You are not alone. Most big cities and marinas cap the number of liveaboard slips that are available, making it difficult to find a place to live aboard your boat. Very often this translates into multi-year wait lists at liveaboard marinas. If you’ve called
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Where to live aboard a boat?
Where is the best place to live on a liveaboard? That depends entirely on your budget, lifestyle, and boating preferences and it’s important to decide before you buy a boat because it’s not always easy to find liveaboard space (e.g. liveaboard marinas can have 10 year wait lists!). Robin and I have lived aboard for
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Is living on a boat right for you? 10 things you should know
Living on a boat sounds cool, but is it right for your lifestyle? With real estate rocketing in cities like London, San Francisco, Vancouver, more and more millennials are ditching their pricey digs for a more adventurous lifestyle: living on a boat. Living on a boat can afford you all kinds of benefits: cheap rent,
