>>17896979>I have lived on Cape Cod, The Gulf of Mexico, and Hawaii and the one thing I heard everywhere about boats is they are a moneypit. So I would make sure you can do your own maintenance and repairs and ideally use the boat to make money somehow.The reason you heard that is because you only talked to rich boomers who buy brand new boats and have to pay big repair charges.
What you never heard is that boats have ridiculous depreciation, after 10 years they will cost 1/10th of their original price. The key to living on a boat is learning to do your own maintenance, not paying any dock fees because you are in open water. Yes it takes work, yes it requires reading. You can be a yacht bumb and never repair your yacht and be just another yacht hobo who has their boat destroyed by the coast guard, or you can read picrel
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-09/they-live-rent-free-on-san-francisco-bay-but-now-their-floating-homeless-encampment-faces-extinctionhttps://www.sfexaminer.com/homeless-people-take-to-boats-in-wealthy-marin-county/article_fd02a73f-a2eb-58a6-900d-df783c122881.htmlPeople cant think for themselves, they only go by what they hear their rich neighbors talk about.
