04/27/2012 07:34:52 PM
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TonyB
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How many of you are full-time liveaboards. To Clarify that further, you have no other place to call home.
My wife and I are full-time liveaboards on our sailboat. We are trying to sell the sailboat and buy either a houseboat or trawler and still live aboard full time. We just enjoy the lifestyle and the people we run into.
So, who else out there is a full time liveaboard?
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Never wrecked a boat while awake or sober
Kemah, Tx. - Galveston Bay
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04/28/2012 04:13:23 AM
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stmbtwle
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Lived aboard a 26' Pearson in Galveston when I was younger, but every time I tried to get a bigger boat for some reason I couldn't. Eventually I gave up and bought a house. Now that I finally have the boat, I also have too much "stuff" to live aboard.
Yeah I know, time for a major housecleaning!
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Willie She's a tired old barge but she's paid for! http://s71.photobucket.com/alb...p;current=ef324993.pbw
Edited: 04/28/2012 at 05:17:57 AM by stmbtwle
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04/28/2012 05:56:19 AM
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TonyB
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Originally posted by: stmbtwle
......Now that I finally have the boat, I also have too much "stuff" to live aboard.
Yeah I know, time for a major housecleaning!
Sounds like you need to have a yard sale. Sell the yard and the house that sits on it.
After living aboard your 26 Pearson you already know that living small does have it's advantages. We starting living aboard mt Catalina 25 with a pop-top roof over the galley. When I sold it, we bought a Catalina 30. That was the first boat I ever owned where I could stand up and pee. I thought I was in heaven.
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Never wrecked a boat while awake or sober Kemah, Tx. - Galveston Bay
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04/28/2012 01:14:54 PM
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LongJohn
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Bought the boat and sold the house in 2007 with the intent to live aboard long enough to get the lakehouse built. We could build the dock and 'park in the front yard' to observe construction. Don't have the dock built yet. In 2009, I sold all the crap that I had put in storage. I'll move back ashore eventually, but I'm not in a hurry. The marina is an interesting community.
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Watts Bar Lake - TN River
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04/28/2012 01:33:56 PM
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TonyB
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Originally posted by: LongJohn............... The marina is an interesting community.
It sure is. Usually when we move to a different marina they always assume we want to be near the other liveaboards. Usually we like being the only liveaboards on the pier. It's like having your own little world.
My wife and i really enjoy marina life. Glad to hear that you do also.
So, next year, if you see a house boat disguised like a sailboat - that will be us. You would be amazed how many people cant tell the difference. We should have been spies 
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Never wrecked a boat while awake or sober Kemah, Tx. - Galveston Bay
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04/28/2012 03:13:27 PM
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OLD HOUSEBOATER
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Lived aboard at Joe Wheeler Marina on the Tennessee River for 7 Years. Best years of our lives.
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04/28/2012 03:35:56 PM
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TonyB
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There is just something about living on the water that is romantic in its own right and there's this great sense of freedom. Why own property when you own the whole waterway system? Some of the most scenic properties are yours for the enjoyment. They are called State Parks and National Parks.
Most marinas, at least down here are deserted most of the time. We usually only see people during holiday weeks and weekends. The rest of the time there is just us and a relative handful of other liveaboards.
OK, OHB, does that make you homesick?
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Never wrecked a boat while awake or sober
Kemah, Tx. - Galveston Bay
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04/28/2012 04:34:55 PM
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stmbtwle
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Can't speak for OHB but sometimes I get homesick...
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Willie She's a tired old barge but she's paid for! http://s71.photobucket.com/alb...p;current=ef324993.pbw
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04/28/2012 06:26:46 PM
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OLD HOUSEBOATER
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We think about it all the time. The Tennessee River in Alabama is Gods Country for Liveaboards. There are the 4 seasons but Winters are mild and the extended Spring and Fall Seasons are a pure joy to behold.
Of course being in a covered slip At Joe Wheeler for 13 years only enhanced the experience.
BTW Tony. There was also a couple that lived on a 36' sail boat during our stay there. They were engineers for NASA in Huntsville.
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Edited: 04/28/2012 at 06:29:35 PM by OLD HOUSEBOATER
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06/11/2012 03:01:20 PM
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geoffsmith
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I have been looking at Joe Wheeler as a place to winter over coming down from Canada but I notice that their marine slip rates form specifies ... a copy of Alabama boat registration which of course I would not have. Can a foreign boat get a 6 month lease there?
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06/11/2012 04:29:57 PM
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TonyB
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Geoff
Welcome aboard.
I had never heard of such a thing before. It's not like you come from a foreign country. Oooops
Usually, if anything, they want some kind of proof of insurance.
Maybe OHB can talk them into setting aside that part of their policy for members of good standing on this forum. 
Never hurts to ask.
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Never wrecked a boat while awake or sober Kemah, Tx. - Galveston Bay
Edited: 06/11/2012 at 04:31:02 PM by TonyB
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06/13/2012 10:54:43 AM
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clarencio5
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I lived aboard a 43 houseboat for 2 years and a 35 Sailboat for one year. I, like so many other liveaboards swore that it was the greatest way in the world to live, and would never move back into a house again. Then--like everyone else eventually did, we moved back into a house.
This was in St. Pete Fla. where it was fantastic living, until another damn Hurricane would threaten.
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06/13/2012 11:50:10 AM
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TonyB
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Originally posted by: clarencio5.... This was in St. Pete Fla. where it was fantastic living, until another damn Hurricane would threaten. clarencio
We bought our sailboat near you. It was in Dunedin, Fl. and we sailed it across the Gulf to Galveston Bay. That was an long 11 day trip....but I would do it again in a heartbeat.
As for Hurricanes, that is one of the main reasons we want to go inland. I'm already starting to worry. And, the worry will continue until September. I never worried about it before Hurricane Katrina. We lost everything except the Motor home and 1 car. I guess we were fortunate to have moved the motorhome ahead of the storm. At least we had something to live in, which put us in better shape than some of our friends.
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Never wrecked a boat while awake or sober Kemah, Tx. - Galveston Bay
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