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07-08-2012, 09:46
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Annapolis
Boat: 37 Gulfstar
Posts: 73
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New Member Looking at Living Aboard
Figured this forum can be a useful resource along my journey. Have looked into living aboard several times, came very close a couple years ago. Circumstances are such that this time may be my best chance at throwing caution to the wind and enjoying the frustration that brings to all the naysayers.
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07-08-2012, 10:04
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#2
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Galveston Island, Texas, USA
Boat: Amel SM 53 - BeBe
Posts: 953
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Re: New Member Looking at Living Aboard
Quote:
Originally Posted by RunningRabbit
Figured this forum can be a useful resource along my journey. Have looked into living aboard several times, came very close a couple years ago. Circumstances are such that this time may be my best chance at throwing caution to the wind and enjoying the frustration that brings to all the naysayers. |
Welcome to CF and...
Just, do it.
Bill
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07-08-2012, 10:25
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#3
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Annapolis
Boat: 37 Gulfstar
Posts: 73
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Re: New Member Looking at Living Aboard
Thanks! You only live once and I regret not having made this leap of faith before.
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07-08-2012, 10:32
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#4
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Pensacola Fl
Boat: Heritage East 40
Posts: 199
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Re: New Member Looking at Living Aboard
welcome aboard and good luck!
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07-08-2012, 11:00
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#5
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Heathsville, VA
Boat: Gemini 105Mc 34'
Posts: 1,457
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Re: New Member Looking at Living Aboard
Welcome aboard! It's the perfect waterfront property...any waterfront you like!
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24-08-2012, 12:45
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#6
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
Boat: 15 foot Canoe
Posts: 14,191
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Re: New Member Looking at Living Aboard
Aloha and welcome aboard!
Good to have you here on the forum.
kind regards,
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John
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24-08-2012, 12:49
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#7
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: From Cape Town now New Caledonia
Boat: Lagoon 440
Posts: 962
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Re: New Member Looking at Living Aboard
Welcome to CF ... it's a great forum and we have learnt a lot from many here! We bought the boat and are busy sailing around the world ... friends and family will think you are a 'dreamer' ... have to do it but do it well!
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24-08-2012, 13:17
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#8
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Lived aboard & cruised for 45 years,- now on a chair in my walk-in closet.
Boat: Morgan OI 413 1973 - Aythya
Posts: 8,466
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Re: New Member Looking at Living Aboard
Welcome, Running Rabbit! Be sure to scan the "liveaboards" section within this forum. We're well into the living aboard plan and we find it very rewarding.
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Take care and joy, Aythya crew
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24-08-2012, 13:48
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#9
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Florida
Boat: Matlack, Trawler, 48 ft
Posts: 1,065
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Re: New Member Looking at Living Aboard
Welcome aboard and fair winds on your new adventures.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
—Jacques Yves Costeau
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25-08-2012, 05:45
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#10
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Annapolis
Boat: 37 Gulfstar
Posts: 73
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Re: New Member Looking at Living Aboard
Thanks for the warm welcome, all! I believe I have found a boat that will work well, am settling in on a marina, and a month from now, should be moving aboard.
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25-08-2012, 06:02
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#11
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Pensacola Fl
Boat: Heritage East 40
Posts: 199
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Awesome don't look back
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25-08-2012, 06:07
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: subject to change
Posts: 270
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Re: New Member Looking at Living Aboard
Hey, sounds like you're making progress on the plan! Ironically, the guy we wanted to introduce you to with the 30-footer? He just moved ashore in order to have room to work from home. The exact inverse of your situation.
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25-08-2012, 08:22
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#13
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Annapolis
Boat: 37 Gulfstar
Posts: 73
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Re: New Member Looking at Living Aboard
How funny! I am still looking for the right office space... I need to keep my dockage + office at less than my current house rent to make it all fiscally logical (if anything about boating ever really could be). Now that I'm getting in the "small-space" liveaboard mentality, I am annoyed whenever I have to go from one room of the house to another to get something... and I look around and relish not mowing the lawn, not vacuuming 1500 square feet. It's all a matter of trade-offs.
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25-08-2012, 08:31
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#14
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: New York
Boat: FP, Eleuthera 60
Posts: 530
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Re: New Member Looking at Living Aboard
the best neighbors and the best views. How can you go wrong?. DO IT!
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25-08-2012, 10:11
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#15
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: subject to change
Posts: 270
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Re: New Member Looking at Living Aboard
Yeah, you don't buy a boat and move aboard for the finances; you do it for the love of this life.
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