Are Liveaboards Unwanted? Disliked? All over Everywhere?

[weavis]

Originally Posted by Wrong

It's more about your state of mind than anything else. If you behave like a cruiser, think like a cruiser and when communicating with others identify yourself as a cruiser - you're a cruiser.

You'll see folks wherever you hang on the hook or stay in a marina as hosts and you'll behave like a guest, learning about and respecting local rules and regulations. You're not an "in your face" kind of person always harping about your 'rights'. You don't 'aquire' a prime spot to anchor, deploy a multiple anchor type mooring and take up residency to the exclusion of all other boaters.

And finally, last but not least your experience living aboard and cruising should be credible. There should be evidence to support your claims.

Hmm.

Me thinks you have arrogated a title and description of a cruiser which is an ideal and exclusive to suit a choice made in your life.

Im a pilot. I have a licence. I dont fly commercial aircraft. Last year I completed less than 16 hours in total. I can still call myself a pilot. I dont as it happens, I just state that I have a pilots licence.

I sail and cruise boats. I dont live on one full time, but I cruise. That makes me a cruiser. I can still call myself a cruiser. I dont as it happens, I just state that I go sailing as much as I can.

You can call yourself a cruiser because you have cruised. A lot. However Im sure in the local Marina where you are situated they will refer to you as a liveaboard.

Why do you need to " have experience living aboard and cruising and should be credible. There should be evidence to support your claims."? What do you need to prove to me or others? Are you going to say something like "in my 25 years of cruising experience, this is how it is to be done"?

I work with people who profess a lifetimes experience, and yet all that I see is a lifetime of doing it wrong. Much prefer to converse with experienced persons who dont expect to be listened to because of a title, but because of experienced gleaned over years and it shows in every word and action. Many times I have talked to someone and not known their background but have recognised the wisdom of words and experience.

One time, when I was going through university, I used to play with band to pay my way. The keyboard player an older guy would work with me during rehearsals so we got it tight. A great keyboardist. About a year later, I was working on a song and could not get the chords just right. After an hour, B picked up a guitar and demonstrated to me how it should be and threw in some of the most amazing licks I had ever heard. I did not even know he could play the guitar. He never mentioned it. Later I found his life as a 60s 70s session musician had been as a guitarist and not as a keyboard player, and he actually was pretty famous. All he said was " I used to play guitar a bit."

My job is a medic. One day I will say, "I used to be a medic".

Titles suck.

Just enjoy what you do for as long as you can do it and then enjoy the memories.

I used to be married.

[tropicalescape]

Originally Posted by Wrong

Well, yeah. There are lots of 'issues' addressed in this thread, some of which have only a remote relationship with the primary subject matter asking whether or not liveaboards are disliked everywhere.

Some blame rich folks and others like to blame the government for the evolution of controls and restrictions on living aboard and or anchoring. Some say problems related to boats and their owners are exaggerated. Others complain the problems are serious and the government isn't doing enough.

Some justify, indeed advocate for the use of boats as 'low income' and indigent shelter as a response to unemployment and low pay. Others argue most are unemployed and or indigent because they're just not trying hard enough to find a job. Then there are people with criminal records or who have physical or mental disabilities that create an additional bar to getting a job or finding somewhere to live other than on a boat.

The list is endless. The solutions due to social, political, cultural and economic disparaties are not easy to find, let alone implement.

So, what does your comment about minimum wages have to do with the matter of whether or not liveaboards are disliked everywhere?

"Blame rich folks" lots of whom got that way by hard work and dedication..Lets corral all the rich,hard working and dedicated throw them in a camp and let the poor,disabled and uneducated people run things for a while then we will see no livaboards or boats or food production etc..Minimum wage is where one starts from there you build wealth or wallow in misery, just dont wallow in front of my house please if minimum wage is your choice..

[Blue Crab]

SC: Just because I think I'm the queen of England, does not make it so. Though OK, I'm more the crazy cat lady type of cruiser.

Heh heh, SC, you are our Queen of the Delta.

[Hudson Force]

Poor behavior, such as "in your face" or "harping about rights", is not an indication of wether someone is a cruiser or liveaboard, but simply an indication of poor character.

I agree that the designation of cruiser or liveaboard is related to how one uses their boat.

Cruisers move about with their boats and do not return to their same dock or mooring after only daysails.
Liveaboards make use of their vessel as their home without a house or apartment ashore.
Many, like my wife and I, crusie about on our liveaboard vessel.

Sometimes I misbehave, but that doesn't affect my boating status as a liveaboard cruiser. It just makes me a crumugeon/liveaboard/cruiser!

Oh, I forgot income! Wealth or the lack doesn't make one a liveaboard or a cruiser either. We don't have a lot of money, but enough so that we don't need to have jobs.

Therefore, we are leisure class/crumugeon/liveaboard/cruisiers

..... we lean to the left politically, so we are LCLCLs: leisure class/crumugeon/liveaboard/cruiser/liberals

Wait, there's more!

[weavis]

Originally Posted by Hudson Force

Poor behavior, such as "in your face" or "harping about rights", is not an indication of wether someone is a cruiser or liveaboard, but simply an indication of poor character.

I agree that the designation of cruiser or liveaboard is related to how one uses their boat.

Cruisers move about with their boats and do not return to their same dock or mooring after only daysails.
Liveaboards make use of their vessel as their home without a house or apartment ashore.
Many, like my wife and I, crusie about on our liveaboard vessel.

Sometimes I misbehave, but that doesn't affect my boating status as a liveaboard cruiser. It just makes me a crumugeon/liveaboard/cruiser!

Oh, I forgot income! Wealth or the lack doesn't make one a liveaboard or a cruiser either. We don't have a lot of money, but enough so that we don't need to have jobs.

Therefore, we are leisure class/crumugeon/liveaboard/cruisiers

..... we lean to the left politically, so we are LCLCLs: leisure class/crumugeon/liveaboard/cruiser/liberals

Wait, there's more!

I was absolutely fine till the personal information regarding leaning to the left! Both of you!

It always is a difficult when concentrating on the terminology of my day job, which is similar to your expressions, to switch into a different understanding. Yes you wrote politically, but my attention deviated before reading it.

Im so glad I re read your post and cleared it up.......

There was worry for a minute

[Blue Crab]

Originally Posted by Hudson Force

...

Sometimes I misbehave, but that doesn't affect my boating status as a liveaboard cruiser. It just makes me a crumugeon/liveaboard/cruiser!

Therefore, we are leisure class/crumugeon/liveaboard/cruisiers

..... we lean to the left politically, so we are LCLCLs: leisure class/crumugeon/liveaboard/cruiser/liberals

...

I'm trying to discern whether you meant Cro Magnon or just don't use spellchecker.

[weavis]

Originally Posted by Blue Crab

I'm trying to discern whether you meant Cro Magnon or just don't use spellchecker.

curmudgeon
Bad tempered old fart.

[SV THIRD DAY]

Liveaboards are not unwanted...
Bums and people who don't have manners are unwanted. And if you can't figure out the difference without ranting about it on the internet then you could be part of today's societal problem yourself.

[weavis]

Originally Posted by SV THIRD DAY

Liveaboards are not unwanted...
Bums and people who don't have manners are unwanted. And if you can't figure out the difference without ranting about it on the internet then you could be part of today's societal problem yourself.

I was going to write: YOU GO RICH!!! Yaaay!!

but I decided not to.

[Blue Crab]

Originally Posted by weavis

curmudgeon
Bad tempered old fart.

Ah ...... duh.

[Blue Crab]

Originally Posted by SV THIRD DAY

Liveaboards are not unwanted...
Bums and people who don't have manners are unwanted. And if you can't figure out the difference without ranting about it on the internet then you could be part of today's societal problem yourself.

Yepper. How many thousands of threads/posts does it take to make that simple point? Plus, we are the choir. The bums/derelicts likely don't bother with wifi, and the one or two that might would be on the not nice forum.

[Hudson Force]

No spelceck? 'guildty as chargged!

[Tayana42]

Originally Posted by Hudson Force

...crumugeon...

Is that the "American English" spelling?





S/V B'Shert

[Wrong]

Originally Posted by weavis

Hmm.

Me thinks you have arrogated a title and description of a cruiser which is an ideal and exclusive to suit a choice made in your life.

"arrogate"


a :to claim or seize without justification

I can't say whether or not you or anyone else is justified in claiming to be a cruiser, but after completing the better part of two global circumnavigations while living aboard the entire time (25 years) I've owned the boat justifies my claiming the moniker of 'cruiser' and liveaboard. Do you deny this satisfies my comment; "And finally, last but not least your experience living aboard and cruising should be credible. There should be evidence to support your claims."

Im a pilot. I have a licence. I dont fly commercial aircraft. Last year I completed less than 16 hours in total. I can still call myself a pilot. I dont as it happens, I just state that I have a pilots licence.

So? In your judgement the level of experience you've attained does not entitle you to claiming you're a pilot. Your call.

I sail and cruise boats. I dont live on one full time, but I cruise. That makes me a cruiser. I can still call myself a cruiser. I dont as it happens, I just state that I go sailing as much as I can.

Again, your choice.

You can call yourself a cruiser because you have cruised. A lot. However Im sure in the local Marina where you are situated they will refer to you as a liveaboard.

Irrelevant. It makes no difference to me what they call me, and that may very well change if ever I'm asked about my sailing experiences.

Why do you need to " have experience living aboard and cruising and should be credible. There should be evidence to support your claims."? What do you need to prove to me or others? Are you going to say something like "in my 25 years of cruising experience, this is how it is to be done"?

You've couched the above comment in such a way as to suggest I am telling someone else what to say. I can only speak for myself.

I work with people who profess a lifetimes experience, and yet all that I see is a lifetime of doing it wrong. Much prefer to converse with experienced persons who dont expect to be listened to because of a title, but because of experienced gleaned over years and it shows in every word and action. Many times I have talked to someone and not known their background but have recognised the wisdom of words and experience.

Good for you. But I wonder where you get off deciding whether or not people are doing it right? Doubletalk...

One time, when I was going through university, I used to play with band to pay my way. The keyboard player an older guy would work with me during rehearsals so we got it tight. A great keyboardist. About a year later, I was working on a song and could not get the chords just right. After an hour, B picked up a guitar and demonstrated to me how it should be and threw in some of the most amazing licks I had ever heard. I did not even know he could play the guitar. He never mentioned it. Later I found his life as a 60s 70s session musician had been as a guitarist and not as a keyboard player, and he actually was pretty famous. All he said was " I used to play guitar a bit."

Your point as to how this relates to whether or not a person can identify themselves as a cruiser and or liveaboard?

My job is a medic. One day I will say, "I used to be a medic".

And I will say although I have not cruised for many years my experience entitles me to still identifying myself as a cruiser. It's a state of mind...

Titles suck.

Just enjoy what you do for as long as you can do it and then enjoy the memories.

I used to be married.

In a sense I can see why...

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[markpierce]

This is a fact: I anchor overnight on an average of once a year. Last time (earlier this month) was two nights on a flooded Delta "island."





I'm more of a marina-to-marina, eat-at-a-restaurant kind of guy.