Okay so my previous post was about the down side of living on a boat, now to tell ya how it is not all bad.
Living on a boat has been one of the most interesting experience of my life. I am learning so much everyday, about boats, boat communities and myself. I would put this all on the plus side of living on a boat. With boat life your learning so many things about yourself and some of them very personal; you find out how you handle stressful situations, what makes you run, what scares you, some of it will toughen you up, while other things break you down. It is all a very interesting process.
What type of boat you are living on and what shape it is in, will highly affect your experiences. So each persons boat journey will be very different, from one another.
For me personal, my boat is a work in progress, we have had to do with out many modern conveniences; no hot water, no bathroom (there is bathroom and hot water where it is docked just not on the boat), no food allowed on the boat (my own rule, due to bugs), no clothes allowed on the boat (own rule again due to mildew). So you could say I have been roughing it. We originally came here with the attentions of fixing up the boat, but after we bought it we realized exactly how impossibly hard it would be to do, while trying to live on it.
They make it look so easy on the movie Captain Ron!
Nothing like coming onto the boat, with all the floor boards ripped up. So we pretty much decided to just live on it as is and to resell it. Looking at as a cheap place to stay, while we have fun in the Florida sun.
With all the bad there still are definite perks to living on a boat though:
- Freedom-When you live on a boat, you have this feeling of freedom, even if it doesn’t run, you don’t feel bogged down like you do when your in an apartment, there seems to be adventure right out your door.
- Never boring-Living on a boat is never boring. I get bored and restless super quickly, it is something I’m working on, but I haven’t been bored here once. I could be jogging on the beach, or watching Mike chase cockroaches on the boat, there is always something to do.
- Simplicity-Boat life is simple, you end up feeling lighter and you realize all the things you can live without.
- Cheap living-If you do buy a boat and you get a cheap one like us, you may only have a few thousand dollars invested and then you have to rent a dock space for it which is usually around 600 a month. If you ask me that is super cheap! I have never rented an apartment for that cheap.
- Getting outside more-Living on a boat gets you outside EVERYDAY rain or shine! My daily day is wake up, stretch, get out on top of the boat, drink a juice, go for a jog, come back do a little work, check the wind for kiteboarding and usually end up finishing the day with trail riding.
- Breaking Old Habits- Living on a boat helps you break old habits: I can easily waste a day laying around, playing ps3, but not anymore I get up and get going, i like this!
- Boat community-the boats that are docked by you are considered your neighbors, you see the people everyday and they feel like actual neighbors, you say hi and have conversations. I have no idea who my neighbors were in Chicago, I wouldn’t even say hi if I passed them in the hall. I guess living on a boat gives you something to talk about.
- Ocean Breeze-It just smells so good….most the time
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January 22nd, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Phew waking up to a view like that. It would make me love boats too.
January 27th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
My dad’s best friend lived on a gorgeous house boat, and when we spent time there, and I fell asleep, they were some of the most cozy, soothing naps I’ve ever had.