Halkyon

We looked at hire prices before viewing boats to livaboard. It's just not worth it for the normal workin' person, could fly to Hong Kong for less.

Worst case scenario! Let's say I fall in the canal at least once a week! Starlink power draw is terrible and I'd hate to give money to that Musk twerp, I really hope I can make 4G antennas work instead.

Looks like the sale will go through after all, I'm getting excited... Current owners have mainly been "floaters" rather than "boaters" so no solar and are plugged into shoreline 24/7. Batteries are listed as 1x120Ah for engine starter, 620Ah domestic, 240Ah bow thruster. I've had a go at working out a kind of worst case energy consumption scenario, which would certainly require running the engine once a day. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KtzkGQWkirfYjsbP8xQjs84RDI3BEMSjAWEjUjS4c7w/edit?usp=sharing

Unfortunately I am still 31 years from retirement and work full time remote from a laptop!

We've had an offer accepted on a boat, pending surveys, BSS and maintenance logs, the boring stuff! Now I may need to get reliable internet sorted in a hurry and don't know where to find myself a router I can plug a 4x4 MIMO antennae into! Ahhh!

Probably a case of having a go and making mistakes honestly. I'm not entirely inept but have mostly done metalwork - my woodworking experiences are limited to making the odd shelf, table and a record player enclosure, so basic box and biscuit joints.

Another few boats viewed, the decision becomes more imminent and more difficult... The choice is between very similar boats with slightly different levels of maintenance and fitout. My instinct is of course to prioritise structure and the past quality of maintenance (survey results, recency of blacking, year of build, observed condition on the day of viewing). However the best bosts we've viewed in this regard have slightly different interior layouts which gets me thinking - how easy is it to shift an interior wall a couple of feet either way? Knowing this would help in our choice!

I'm far too paranoid to be that cheeky!

Gotcha. I thought I read that LFP was being used in some cheaper EVs now, could be wrong though. Out of the box boat batteries are probably worth the little extra investment.

I don't really fancy the job of inspecting and testing each cell, it's true. Something else to research...

Time to look at crashed electric cars on eBay to steal myself some batteries!

Doesn't seem like I've missed too much so far. I wonder if an admin could rename my topic to something like "Living Aboard - one rusty car and two cats". 😆

Seems like it might be smarter to run a small generator for the washing machine and such?

What's a good estimate for a monthly cost there?

Added a little edit - if we have to take a loan for a big/expensive boat then I'd consider the protection if I was disabled/unemployed for a while.