"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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You have to be pretty tough or desperate to want to live aboard a
typical "pleasure boat" in a cold climate. In addition to all the
problems and challenges already mentioned, consider that these boat
hulls are pretty much uninsulated and have single-pane windows. That
means they're always going to be cold inside unless you run whatever
heating system you have full-blast 24-7. And then you have all sorts of
interesting condensation problems, frozen pipe possibilities, bathroom
challenges, et cetera and so forth.


You said it. The Virgin Islands might be one place I could tough it out
for a month or so.