Fulltime: Bus or Boat?

Seangie · December 29, 2016, 06:09:33 AM

We are looking at doing this as well. With the house we just bought we will have a space to work on a boat and we are close enough to trailer it to Puget Sound and sail up to Canada/Alaska in the summers.

Fun stuff!

-Sean

Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM · December 29, 2016, 10:00:27 AM

Maybe something like this would work.

Scott & Heather · December 29, 2016, 10:44:55 AM

wow. great info here. I'm reading through it. So Shanks is thinking of doing this too? (Seangie) wow...I guess I missed the memo on this. I can't afford it. Boats are too much money. But I would very much like to board one of your boats. I've never been on a real yacht/houseboat. Only ski boats as I'm a wakeboarder.

Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM · December 29, 2016, 11:12:39 AM

There must be an app for that somewhere. Any boat people here that know of a website or Facebook page that caters to boat people?

Lee Bradley · December 29, 2016, 12:02:42 PM

Started reading this blog because I was interested in these boats. Met the designer at the Seattle Boat Show years ago. An interesting look at full-timing; summer in the north and winter in the south.

http://www.fl-sails.com/index.cfm?page=logs

bobofthenorth · December 29, 2016, 12:12:13 PM

Quote from: Scott & Heather on December 29, 2016, 10:44:55 AM
wow. great info here. I'm reading through it. So Shanks is thinking of doing this too? (Seangie) wow...I guess I missed the memo on this. I can't afford it. Boats are too much money. But I would very much like to board one of your boats. I've never been on a real yacht/houseboat. Only ski boats as I'm a wakeboarder.

We went directly from a Response LX to our Defever 43. Many people told us we were fools and we may well have been but it went remarkably well. I tell everyone that its easier to dock the Defever than it was to dock the 'bu. Obviously I could grab the dock and horse the ski boat up against it but if we're talking about gracefully coming alongside the dock under power without forcing anything then the big boat is easier.

Assuming we still own Gray Hawk in the spring, get yourself to the left coast and we'll take you on an adventure.

Lin · December 30, 2016, 10:10:59 PM

Everyone, of course, has their own preferences. It does not interest me, but lots of others think it's great. I just think of the old song that said, "I joined the Navy to see the world. What did I see? I saw the sea."

I will note that we once were obliged to go on a cruise with my in-laws. As one friend put it, it was like being a prisoner on a floating Denny's.