[Alberg30] A37 Great Liveaboard...What others?

[George Dinwiddie]

Boats are compromises.  If the only criterion is being good for living 
aboard, I'd get a houseboat, not a sailboat.  A friend did just that, 
and keeps his sailboat in the same marina.  That gives him two different 
sweet spots, one for living on the water and the other for cruising 
offshore.

If you plan to use one boat for living aboard and cruising, then you 
have to consider how you'll use the boat.  Will you also be working in 
one place for extended periods of time?  Where will you be 
cruising--inland, coastal, offshore?  What's the depth of water?  How 
far will you be from provisions and fresh water?  Do you prefer doing 
things yourself or paying someone else to do them?  Do you prefer to 
cook for yourself or eat out?  What hobbies and other interests do you have?

You need to balance the answers to all of these questions, and more.

  - George


johnny Raffi wrote:
> Since someone has brought up the A37 and Whitby 42, I will pose this
> question: If you HAD to liveaboard for 5 years, yourself and a
> spouse, which sailboat, of all you've ever experienced, would you
> want to do it on? Oh, and you will only have US$155,000! My sister
> and her husband are about to do this, and will be very interested in
> the collected widsom of this list .i, myself, have already decided to
> go the A30 route.

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