LWinter
New member
Hi all! newbie here, been lurking the forums for a while.
I'm looking at possibly living on a boat for a few years instead of renting bricks and mortar (Bristol housing is crazy expensive!) - I'd rather buy a boat and at the end of 5 years have it paid off and have an asset rather than paying someone elses mortgage and have nothing to show at the end of it! I'm a single 27 year old so no need for anything extravagant, but would obviously love to have friends family etc visit.
Anyway, I'm pretty new to boating, learning a lot currently and if I went for this option I'd obviously learn properly. Around 30k to spend.
I've looked at widebeams etc but came to the conclusion that I'd rather have something seaworthy, most of the time it would be moored up but it would be nice when I'm off work for extended periods of time that I could take it around the south-west from Bristol etc, possibly over the channel to France.
Something like this would seem liveable for me: 2001 Bayliner 2858 Ciera Flybridge, Windsor and Maidenhead Berkshire - boats.com
This forum seems like a great place to learn, would a boat like this be OK going over the channel down to france or spain etc? What would a rough estimate of fuel costs be say to cross the channel? (Seen over posts suggesting about £400/500?) Any other suggestions for boats?
I'm looking at possibly living on a boat for a few years instead of renting bricks and mortar (Bristol housing is crazy expensive!) - I'd rather buy a boat and at the end of 5 years have it paid off and have an asset rather than paying someone elses mortgage and have nothing to show at the end of it! I'm a single 27 year old so no need for anything extravagant, but would obviously love to have friends family etc visit.
Anyway, I'm pretty new to boating, learning a lot currently and if I went for this option I'd obviously learn properly. Around 30k to spend.
I've looked at widebeams etc but came to the conclusion that I'd rather have something seaworthy, most of the time it would be moored up but it would be nice when I'm off work for extended periods of time that I could take it around the south-west from Bristol etc, possibly over the channel to France.
Something like this would seem liveable for me: 2001 Bayliner 2858 Ciera Flybridge, Windsor and Maidenhead Berkshire - boats.com
This forum seems like a great place to learn, would a boat like this be OK going over the channel down to france or spain etc? What would a rough estimate of fuel costs be say to cross the channel? (Seen over posts suggesting about £400/500?) Any other suggestions for boats?