On 6/17/12 9:43 AM, Tim wrote:
On Jun 17, 7:30 am, X ` Man

I was thinking...land refuse center. By the time you make a hulk of a
boat "livable," you will have spent more than it takes to buy a boat
where most of the systems are in decent shape. Also, if planning to
"live aboard" in a northern clime, the average old cruiser like this Sea
Ray really sucks. They're not insulated, freezing water and waste lines
inside and outside the boat are real and continuing problems, there's
not much convenience inside. These boats are not the equivalent of a 35'
travel trailer.


However. He never said where the boat would be docked. He might want
it in Texas for all I know.


It's still not so great, especially if the boat can't move on its own
power. I had a friend, now deceased, who lived on a pretty decent cabin
cruiser down by the Washington Marina in downtown DC. There were always
"things" going wrong on the boat, sometimes serious things, usually
having to do with plumbing or it being too hot or too cold. It's not
like "cruising" in the Carib. Restoring a hulk is a pretty big
undertaking that requires lots of time and substantial cash. And really
living on a small boat, full-time, requires significant attitudinal changes.

We have a pretty decent boat, and we wouldn't want to "live" on it for
more than a week at a time, and it has, reasonably, most of the comforts
of home, and nothing on the boat is broken.