Living Aboard a Boat Fulltime!
Posted: June 26th, 2022, 5:14 pm
I have become pretty damn set on buying a boat and living on it fulltime!
It's going to take me awhile as I learn to sail and deal with finishing up other landlocked obligations first, but I'm planning on it seriously at this point, even though I have a lot to learn....
Anyone else here on Happier Abroad already sail or have experience living on a boat fulltime?
The Caribbean is the place I'll likely be doing it, but living aboard a boat fulltime is actually a viable option in a lot of places.
Here's a pic of a a few small sailboats off the coast of beautiful Dominica, the nature isle (Dominica in the Windward Islands, not to be confused with the Dominican Republic):
I wonder what Southeast Asia is like for this, not to mention other interesting countries that I don't necessarily want to live in fulltime or as a naturalized citizen, but would be wonderful to visit and appreciate while sailing...?
Multiple passports was already a must for me, but this is an even better way to be able to weigh anchor and vote with your feet quick if things go wrong, but you have your own boat and live on one fulltime.
As it happens, many people in the USA's cities with ports actually do this, sometimes anchored permanently in a marina just to live on their boat to save money vs what they'd have to pay for basic apartments in the overpriced city they live in.
There's a lot of advantages I see:
+ Lots of freedom to move locations in a hurry if needed (awesome combined with multiple passports)
+ Potentially saves a lot of money vs buying and maintaining a property
(some nice boats also cost way less than properties as a general thing and can be financed, but if you're still into roughing it and have macho notions like me about adventuring, there's also way cheaper options if you learn enough about repairing used boats, as well as sailing...)
+ Potentially saves !@#$loads of money on rents: You can weigh anchor for no fees you literally live rent-free (doable in many places), even if maintaining and repairing a boat isn't a lightweight task.
+ Added leverage for dodging plandemics and vaccine mandates or the like, especially with multiple passports
(and in the theoretic event they actually unleash a biowarfare virus that actually is really dangerous, unlike covid where the vaccine is what's far more lethally dangerous than the virus, it'd be easier to isolate)
I'll add more later... I am starting to accumulate a library of books about living aboard boats fulltime, sailing, and other cool stuff like surviving extreme storm conditions and tying all those sailing knots, LOL.
I like this option way better than just going expat and then wondering when people in another country are just going to let globohomo perverts, libs, jews, drug cartels, or whatever else in, and have them subvert and pervert and bribe and legislate to run everything down the tubes until my new country is nearly as bad as the one I escaped...
Some people even live aboard full time with families! (I wouldn't want to do that until trying it out first with no kids aboard for quite awhile first, that's for sure, but it is doable, and many families love it.)
Favorite girlfriends will definitely be allowed on board with me though, even in the early phase...
As long as you like each other enough to be pretty much on top of each other all the time (boats aren't especially spacious unless you're rich enough to afford a big 'un), sailing together and seeing Caribbean sunsets nightly is damned romantic....
Here's a pic of the sunset marina at St Lucia, another nice island nation in the Caribbean:
It's going to take me awhile as I learn to sail and deal with finishing up other landlocked obligations first, but I'm planning on it seriously at this point, even though I have a lot to learn....
Anyone else here on Happier Abroad already sail or have experience living on a boat fulltime?
The Caribbean is the place I'll likely be doing it, but living aboard a boat fulltime is actually a viable option in a lot of places.
Here's a pic of a a few small sailboats off the coast of beautiful Dominica, the nature isle (Dominica in the Windward Islands, not to be confused with the Dominican Republic):
I wonder what Southeast Asia is like for this, not to mention other interesting countries that I don't necessarily want to live in fulltime or as a naturalized citizen, but would be wonderful to visit and appreciate while sailing...?
Multiple passports was already a must for me, but this is an even better way to be able to weigh anchor and vote with your feet quick if things go wrong, but you have your own boat and live on one fulltime.
As it happens, many people in the USA's cities with ports actually do this, sometimes anchored permanently in a marina just to live on their boat to save money vs what they'd have to pay for basic apartments in the overpriced city they live in.
There's a lot of advantages I see:
+ Lots of freedom to move locations in a hurry if needed (awesome combined with multiple passports)
+ Potentially saves a lot of money vs buying and maintaining a property
(some nice boats also cost way less than properties as a general thing and can be financed, but if you're still into roughing it and have macho notions like me about adventuring, there's also way cheaper options if you learn enough about repairing used boats, as well as sailing...)
+ Potentially saves !@#$loads of money on rents: You can weigh anchor for no fees you literally live rent-free (doable in many places), even if maintaining and repairing a boat isn't a lightweight task.
+ Added leverage for dodging plandemics and vaccine mandates or the like, especially with multiple passports
(and in the theoretic event they actually unleash a biowarfare virus that actually is really dangerous, unlike covid where the vaccine is what's far more lethally dangerous than the virus, it'd be easier to isolate)
I'll add more later... I am starting to accumulate a library of books about living aboard boats fulltime, sailing, and other cool stuff like surviving extreme storm conditions and tying all those sailing knots, LOL.
I like this option way better than just going expat and then wondering when people in another country are just going to let globohomo perverts, libs, jews, drug cartels, or whatever else in, and have them subvert and pervert and bribe and legislate to run everything down the tubes until my new country is nearly as bad as the one I escaped...
Some people even live aboard full time with families! (I wouldn't want to do that until trying it out first with no kids aboard for quite awhile first, that's for sure, but it is doable, and many families love it.)
Favorite girlfriends will definitely be allowed on board with me though, even in the early phase...
As long as you like each other enough to be pretty much on top of each other all the time (boats aren't especially spacious unless you're rich enough to afford a big 'un), sailing together and seeing Caribbean sunsets nightly is damned romantic....
Here's a pic of the sunset marina at St Lucia, another nice island nation in the Caribbean: