Random curiosity poll, boat edition!
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Random curiosity poll, boat edition!
If you could do your job perfectly fine while living on it, there was a place to sail and put it, and you were given a perfectly functional and decent or even nice house boat with only a little bit but still enough space for you and your loved ones... All the conveniences and amenities, heck let's make it solar powered too, with a little garden... Would you live in one?
Would you live on boat, if given opportunity?
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I'm just idly wondering how many people would jump on the chance if there were no roadblocks and nothing stopping them. Some boats are the most adorable and cosy things ever, and there's a certain poetry to drifting on the waters and not staying in one place... But it's also apparently quite rough, and a peculiar way of life for someone not familiar with it, and can be horrendously expensive.
Me, I'd probably be too neurotic about the constant weather and dropping things overboard, but it might be nice for a holiday. And I do not trust the sea!
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can I answer
“Sleep I could not
on the sea beds
for the screeching of the bird.
That gull wakes me
when from the wide sea
he comes each morning.”even if I had to look for the quote on wikipedia? :D
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@sinituulia having lived on a boat many years, I can assure you that weather and things overboard are things to which you can acclimate. But what you must never forget is the pumps that may keep the boat afloat WHEN she starts to leak - pumps that must be kept in top condition for years while they do NOTHING! The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, they say - nowhere more true than on a boat.
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@CadeJohnson If engineers have taught me anything it's that Everything Leaks - maybe not now, but eventually, and one should prepare for the eventuality.
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@sinituulia @CadeJohnson can confirm
our house. on land. away from any body of standing water. and not even that close to running water.
has. sprung. a. leak.
(only when it has rained heavily, but still)
