Living on a sailboat for 4 months

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Living on a sailboat is very certainly a different lifestyle from being on land . It comes with various benefits and other issues as well.

For the first few weeks on the boat, it was still on the hard on stands in a boat yard. I was able to live on the boat in this boat yard. It’s like living in a 2 bedroom tree house. Climbing up a ladder to get home.

The boat on the hard. One does have power and water and marina offers showers and lounge. A nice and friendly and helpful boater community.

This is a diy yard so most cruisers are doing a lot of the work themselves with some contractors helping.

There are some boaters rapidly getting their boat projects done while other boaters with project boats spends living and working on the boat to prepare it to sail.

The boat yard at sunset / December
Project boat with a few years in and few years to go

Once launched you have 2-3 options on how to live on your boat. One option is anchored with your own anchor and dropping the hook.

Anchored in no name harbour in Biscayne bay
Marina with slips offers a chance to socialize with other cruisers with pot luck dinners and musical gatherings and day time dingy adventures and of course helping each other with boat projects.
Dingy ride gatherings with other cruisers from marina
It’s easy to invite and find cruisers for gatherings
Living on the water often offers wonderful and peaceful sunrises and sunsets with the views your swirling anchor point.
The boat can function as an art studio and quiet place for music and reading
The commute to and from the boat is a short and fun dingy where you experience the weather, the light and sea life around you and always a friendly wave to all the other cruisers in the same “boat”. You make decisions about the trips ashore when on mooring ball or anchor.

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