fasteddy13
New member
Hi All..
Am new to joining the forum but have spent many a pleaseant evening here reading the tales and wisdoms of the members, learnt a lot doing that too..
I live in the north of Scotland, have a 12' sailing dinghy which I have spent very many hours enjoying on Loch Shin these past couple of years. Now, my circumstances have changed, my son has grown up and left home, only seems like yesterday I was changing his nappies and burping him.. This means that I have gone from single parent to, well, just single I guess..
Long story short, I have 99% decided to buy a bigger boat to have a liveaboard life. I love the freedom to roam and explore the waters of this country, kinda nuts about fishing too..
BUT.. Have been researching as much as I can about the liveaboard life, and some doubts are starting to creep in.. I am not daunted by any of the practicalities of boat life, I think I have all the skills, and enough enthusiasm to continually learn the ones I dont have as I go along, but the more I look at the liveaboard life, the more it seems to resemble land life, without the land.. By that I mean huge amounts of red tape, taxes, insurance, regulations, no-go areas, prejudice against liveaboards, or simply requiring lots of cash to make it all feasible to do..
After trying to navigate my way through all this lot, I am now wondering if there would be any sense of freedom left after I have complied with, paid taxes on, and generally rolled myself into a ball of red tape.. It is starting to look like a slightly more committed form of expensive holiday, with all the bureaucracy of getting a mortgage, car insurance and adopting a white rhino..
Am I seeing this all wrong?
Am new to joining the forum but have spent many a pleaseant evening here reading the tales and wisdoms of the members, learnt a lot doing that too..
I live in the north of Scotland, have a 12' sailing dinghy which I have spent very many hours enjoying on Loch Shin these past couple of years. Now, my circumstances have changed, my son has grown up and left home, only seems like yesterday I was changing his nappies and burping him.. This means that I have gone from single parent to, well, just single I guess..
Long story short, I have 99% decided to buy a bigger boat to have a liveaboard life. I love the freedom to roam and explore the waters of this country, kinda nuts about fishing too..
BUT.. Have been researching as much as I can about the liveaboard life, and some doubts are starting to creep in.. I am not daunted by any of the practicalities of boat life, I think I have all the skills, and enough enthusiasm to continually learn the ones I dont have as I go along, but the more I look at the liveaboard life, the more it seems to resemble land life, without the land.. By that I mean huge amounts of red tape, taxes, insurance, regulations, no-go areas, prejudice against liveaboards, or simply requiring lots of cash to make it all feasible to do..
After trying to navigate my way through all this lot, I am now wondering if there would be any sense of freedom left after I have complied with, paid taxes on, and generally rolled myself into a ball of red tape.. It is starting to look like a slightly more committed form of expensive holiday, with all the bureaucracy of getting a mortgage, car insurance and adopting a white rhino..
Am I seeing this all wrong?