Me and my wife have this fantasy where we find a boat that is relatively cheap to maintain, will be warm enough to live in during the winter, and we will use it as our home for the next 5 to 6 years of our life, moving from place to place.
It doesn't have to be a fast boat, we're not into Water Sports except for diving where relevant, but we do work with computers, and our job allows us to work from any location on the planet, as long as we have an Internet Connection. (But with Inmarsat and VSAT, Internet is now rather easy to get out at sea).
The problem is that there are a huge number of boat manufacturers, many kinds of hulls, and I'm told it's very expensive to maintain a large boat (by large I mean we need a living room, bedroom, and office, and of course a shower and toilet).
I'm used to renting a house in capital cities, and paying around $1200/month for that, before bills and municipal taxes. Will maintaining a boat really be much more expensive than this? We're talking about staying docked at some Marina 90% of the time (moving between countries only every 3 to 4 month).
It doesn't have to be a fast boat, we're not into Water Sports except for diving where relevant, but we do work with computers, and our job allows us to work from any location on the planet, as long as we have an Internet Connection. (But with Inmarsat and VSAT, Internet is now rather easy to get out at sea).
The problem is that there are a huge number of boat manufacturers, many kinds of hulls, and I'm told it's very expensive to maintain a large boat (by large I mean we need a living room, bedroom, and office, and of course a shower and toilet).
I'm used to renting a house in capital cities, and paying around $1200/month for that, before bills and municipal taxes. Will maintaining a boat really be much more expensive than this? We're talking about staying docked at some Marina 90% of the time (moving between countries only every 3 to 4 month).
