A question for Continuous Cruisers

[DeanS]

How long have you lived on your boat? By this I mean..the live-aboard lifestyle, where you feel your boat is your home.

I thought it would be interesting to hear from those out there who talk in months and years?

 

I dont know if it is just me, but I think you are a special bunch, and genuinely hope to do the same.(although everyone who asks me is assured it is just for a few months because I dont have the guts to tell them it's forever.LOL...my wife is already secretly talking about mooring through the next winter:)

 

Right...the question is...how long have you lived on your boat.?

[matty40s]

3 years, short stint in a marina and then free running around the network, bouncing off lock walls and trying to stay afloat when it rains ever since.

[valrene9600]

I`ve been living aboard 5yrs C/Cruising all over the system. Don`t pay to moor up in winter as there are many days that are a pleasure to move all you need do is take care on slippery locksides be it just wet or icy.

[sueb]

As above but over 20 yrs.

Sue

[DeanS]

As above but over 20 yrs.

Sue

 

WOW!

[Ange]

June 2009 so that makes it 18 months plus a little bit

 

[Scooby]

June 2009 so that makes it 18 months plus a little bit

 

 

14 months, CCing, not a marina, but going to try one soon for winter only..

[Mick_B]

2 and a bit years continous moorer but we don't get bothered by waterways at the moment. Times are changing though.

[Leonie]

Four years so far. It's still a grand adventure.

[nb Innisfree]

5 years ccing up until August, unfortunately a family bereavement has moved us ashore since then, don't know if we will be able to return but we are missing it very much.

[deletedaccount]

It's bee 18 months now

 

*been

[paddy r]

2years and still loveing it.

[Quinafloat]

10 years now, and about 850-1100 lock miles a year. A truly fantastic holiday.

What is a marina?

[Sunset Rising]

 

What is a marina?

 

A small car made by Morris - but dont change the subject.

[boatyboy]

We have been living aboard for nearly 3 years,and cruise all the time what ever the weather (but not lately ) In that time we have traveled over 3000 miles,Now we have just about done all of the system.No regrets whatsoever.We would like to carry on for ten years.But we plan to sell in June and spend 6 months traveling in the States.

Our favourite season to travel is 'out of season' if you get my drift.

[Lesd]

4 winters, just over 3 years in total. We like a view out of our window so marina living is not for us. We both love this lie style and can't imagine ever moving back to land.

[canaldrifter]

Eleven years, much of it without a shore base. Did have a few weeks in a marina one winter but hated it. Four years 2002-5 with a residential mooring on the Basingstoke running the trip boat business. A wonderful time, giving commentaries on the canal that I had helped to restore back in the 70/80s (at this time sadly closed again).

 

Tone

[bottle]

17 months, that includes two winters, still not put us off.

 

Will we stay, probably, unless the Premium Bonds come up trumps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just remembered we cashed those in to buy the boat.

 

Would have stayed anyway.

[Secret Garden]

How long have you lived on your boat? By this I mean..the live-aboard lifestyle, where you feel your boat is your home.

I thought it would be interesting to hear from those out there who talk in months and years?

 

I dont know if it is just me, but I think you are a special bunch, and genuinely hope to do the same.(although everyone who asks me is assured it is just for a few months because I dont have the guts to tell them it's forever.LOL...my wife is already secretly talking about mooring through the next winter:)

 

Right...the question is...how long have you lived on your boat.?

Three & a half years cc'ing till June last year, now land lubbing with boat resting in a marina.

[carlt]

11 years, 4 years ccing, 7 on an off-side mooring, back on the bank now but, if swmbo helps the economy, by being made redundant, we'll be heading for the coast for some proper liveaboarding.

[Pretty Funked Up]

3 yrs (thats all of the last 3 lovely winters) as a CC'er.

 

Been working on boat for all of them doing it up when weather and finances permit so at times its been a cold and messy nightmare but worth it!

[Smelly]

8 years so far, 3.cc and 5 with a mooring but mooching around enough for the vast majority to keep BW happy if we hadn't...

[DaveP]

Just over 2 years - this hire season on the S Oxford for a job, otherwise meandering from London to Skipton and back. Marinas - lovely places for all those lonely boats whose owners have to leave them alone - bit like kennels, really.

[sueb]

I notice many are fairly new CCers. I wonder if it is a short term occupation for many.

Sue

[carlt]

I notice many are fairly new CCers. I wonder if it is a short term occupation for many.

Who knows?

 

Perhaps, 20 years ago, "old hands" nodded in your direction and said "She'll never stay the course."

 

I know they did, 15 years ago, when I moved aboard (well, "he", not "she").

 

Some will still be aboard, in 20 years' time, others will go on to different things.