Can everyone post what boat they have as a liveaboard please?

[Oscarpop]

Southerly 38.

Just in the transition of moving from land to sea

 

[Saguday]

Island Packet 370, although no longer liveaboard

 

[rivonia]

Catamaran-Solaris Sunrise 11 meter x 4.8 meter Perfect!!

Peter

 

[idomeneus5]

Cruisecraft Mirage 232 ( 24ft mobo,trailerable, Australian marine industry answer to the searay imports) Just me, living in a marina 3 years but full facililities on board, standing headroom. Just purchased Roberts 26 sloop, in the process of gutting her and starting over. Cheers Peter

 

[nathanlee]

Camper Nicholson 32

Well, it was about time, wasn't it.

 

[IDAMAY]

Six years on

Sealine T47 motor cruiser and Trader 42 motor cruiser. Trader is the better liveaboard because of superior use of space, higher spec, economical cruising and sea kindly performance but wouldn't swap either of them for a house until age catches up with us. Wintering in UK but heading for Netherlands, denmark and Norway in 2013.

 

[Peroo]

our home

Contest 42 ketch - many adventures and she has looked after us throughout them all. 37 years old and wonderfully built.

first post and we are living the dream.

 

[Chalker]

Altantic Circuit in a Westerly Corsair Ketch fantastic.

Halberg Rassy 42F. Fantastic Boat Moving aboard in May 2013 for a circumnavigation. Self + Admiral who does jobs like, remove deck caulking, for me to replace......
Wish I'd known that you cannot modify HRs, would have saved
us an awful lot if work!!!
Just spent 3 days, installing dual switched fuel filters, ammeters, extra gallley cupboard, new heads and galley taps....
Should have known that HR owners just pay others to do all of the jobs before I bought her!!

 

[pentagram]

Oyster 41

 

[rustybarge]

Hi mike,
Just wondering what sort of fuel economy you get at 7-8 kts. Is your cat comfortable in a beam sea.....ie. no rolling.
Regards,
Peter

 

[Ben9000]

No better way to answer the "what type of boat should I get" question than to go through this thread and find out what people are actually living on now, showing that they are proven. Based on two adults a toddler and a dog, I've left out some of the smaller ones - here's my list:

Hans Christian 44 Pilothouse.
Moody 44
Bavaria 44, 3 cabin, 2002
Hudson Force 50--pilothouse
Bowman 40
Moody 33
Angus Primrose Moody 36
Swan 44
Gitana 43
Dufour 35 - circa 1974
Contessa 33
Oyster Heritage
Ebbtide 33' long keel steel cutter.
Nicholson 39
Southerly 115
Colvic Countess 37
Rival 38
Skookum 53
Sweden Yachts 390.
Princess 435 - dinette version
Seastream 34 Pilothouse Ketch. Ian Anderson design, 1978
Bavaria 49
Wharram Pahi 42
Maxi 120 - 12m, GRP centre cockpit ketch
Sadler 34
Lafitte 44 American designed cruising yacht by Bob Perry.
Oyster 406, Deck Saloon, 1988.
Northwind Mistral 40 ketch. Angus Primrose designed
1980 De Vries Lentsch steel ketch 38 feet.
Moody 41
Beneteau Oceanis 390
Maxim 380 catamaran
Young Sun or Westwind 43 Pilot House
44ft steel ketch designed by peter ibold called a hedoniste
32 foot steel catamaran
Westerly Typhoon 37ft 1991
Privilege 435 catamaran
Nauticat 35 pilothouse sloop
Tradewind 33
Looe Lugger 46 foot (1921)
Salar 40 (grp)
Van de Stadt Caribbean 40 (wood)
1996 Moody 38
1979 Prout Snowgoose 37ft Cat with cruising mods
Sadler 32
Moody 425
1978 Comar Comet 11
2002 Beneteau Oceanis 36cc
1963 42ft steel R.Clark yawl one-off
Nauticat 42
Nautitri (Kelsall 39) '76
1978 Nicholson 32Mk X1
Broadblue 385 catamaran
simpson 15m catamaran
Catalina 42
Southern Ocean Shipyard) Ocean 60
Kalik44
American Legend 420 Passage - centre cockpit AWB
1979 Centaur
Dufour 425
Oyster 45.
Hardin Voyager 45
Bavaria 47 Ocean (ie centre cockpit).
Warrior 35
Nicholson 48 since 1999
Westerly Discus 33
57' wood motor sailer
Derek Kelsell 45 (cat)
American Marine Laguna 11.5
Griffiths' Levanter 33 (actually 34.5ft).
Moody 425
Hallberg-Rassy 40
Colvic Victor 50. Ketch
Privilege 495 catmaran
Kelt 850 (fixed keel)
Hans Christian 43 ketch
Westerly31 (Longbow)
Alpa 42 - Ketch (Sparkman&Stephens)
Belliure 50 1997 deckhouse, cutter rigged
Bavaria 36 2011 model
Swan411
Westerly Oceanmaster 48
Victoria 34
Sadler 34
Colvic Watson Veracity 35
Sadler Starlight 39
1989 Trident Voyager 35
Seastream 43
Koopmans 47
Privilege 37 Catamaran
Westerly OceanQuest 35 Aft Cockpit version
Moody 47 built at Swanwick by Moodys in 1984
Solaris Sunrise Catamaran
Hallberg Rassy 46
jeanneau Sun Magic 44
Beneteau 390 (1988)
Moody 422
Solaris Sunstar 36 cat
Corvette 320
OVNI 395
23-year old 10.65m Nauticat 35:bermudan sloop, two helms
Rustler36
New Bombay Trading Company Explorer 44
Hedoniste 44 steel ketch
Moody 42 ketch
Voyager 35
lagoon 38
excalibur 36
Princess 37
Hallberg Rassy 39
Bill Dixon/ Angus Primrose 48 ft steel ketch
colvic-atlanta 40
1989 Prout Snowgoose elite37
Moody 39
Gemini 105
1974 Cheoy Lee 40ft LRC Trawler Yacht
40ft ketch, a Northstar40, Sparkman and Stevens designed
C-Kip 46
Southerly 38.
Island Packet 370
Catamaran-Solaris Sunrise 11 meter x 4.8 meter
Sealine T47 motor cruiser and Trader 42 motor cruiser.
Contest 42 ketch
Halberg Rassy 42F.
Oyster 41

Now all I've got to do is find out which ones I can afford, (in $,£ and euros), view as many as possible from that list, complete as much due dilligence as possible, get her to my local boatyard, spend 12 to 18 months fitting her out, and I should be able to embark in January 2016. Let the house, sell the business and actaully learn how to sail also featuring heavily on my to-do list

 

[outtametree]

Now all I've got to do is find out which ones I can afford, (in $,£ and euros), view as many as possible from that list, complete as much due dilligence as possible, get her to my local boatyard, spend 12 to 18 months fitting her out, and I should be able to embark in January 2016. Let the house, sell the business and actaully learn how to sail also featuring heavily on my to-do list

That's some list. There's a quick & easy way you could shorten that list. Look at Mooring prices & see what fits your budget. 10 - 12m seems to be a popular band, which keeps you below 40'.
We're doing something similar, but we decided on a yacht when the kids moved out. We sold the house & moved aboard in April, gradually learning to sail.
Good hunting.

 

[rustybarge]

Hi Ben,

Confused? Me too. Remember to look at running cost.

8mtr 3 ton boat @ 20 kts uses £30 / hr . 2 hrs out 2 back day trip £120.
Call it £1000 week in fuel.

Displacement boats need a crew on 24hr watch, cos you are going so slow.
Plus mono hulls roll like pigs, In a beam sea at 7-8kts.

Catamaran ?

 

[snowleopard]

No better way to answer the "what type of boat should I get" question than to go through this thread and find out what people are actually living on now, showing that they are proven. Based on two adults a toddler and a dog, I've left out some of the smaller ones - here's my list:
....
Now all I've got to do is find out which ones I can afford, (in $,£ and euros), view as many as possible from that list, complete as much due dilligence as possible, get her to my local boatyard, spend 12 to 18 months fitting her out, and I should be able to embark in January 2016. Let the house, sell the business and actaully learn how to sail also featuring heavily on my to-do list

I would have thought the lesson from that long list is that virtually any seaworthy boat will do. Anything below 35 ft is going to be hard work and require sacrifices to avoid clutter. Above 50 ft you are getting into the territory of needing a fit crew.

Far more important is where you plan to live/sail. if you want to head for Spitzbergen you want a solid boat with heavy gear and small hatches; if you want to day-sail between marinas you want a small boat with big internal volume and if wafting through the tropics a well-ventilated cat.

Liveaboards typically spend 85%+ of their time moored so don't make all your decisions based on what it's like at sea and saddle yourself with a boat that's hell at anchor.

 

[dratsea]

+crealock 44 (not first choice but a good choice)

+good luck with sailing lessons

 

[rickym]

Currently in the Canaries on a Westerly Corsair 36' ketch. Left the UK in May, works for the 2 of us.

 

[swedish girl]

Hi Fandancer

Good to hear your news and read your article in this month's PBO. We missed you this year when you sailed through Ionian. We are wintering in Cleopatra Marina again

Best wishes
Swedish Girl

 

[Mark Jeffery]

Beneteau Oceanis 50

Liveaboard in UK

 

[lenseman]

A Peter Ibold Hedoniste 44, (regularly mistakenly called an Endurance 44).


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[homer]

Moosy 38 CC - suits 2 of us (and the cat) very well but has had many improvements!