How do you know when your a liveaboard?

[Nostrodamus]

So just how do you know when you are a liveaboard?

A couple to get you started

You've googled to see if there are any companies that make triangular bed sheets.

You know that duct tape was invented by God.

Trying to find a partner to sail away with you isn't being romantic, it’s kidnapping.

Your computer homepage is the Weather Service

Do you have any?

 

[TQA]

Your T shirts are faded and have orange rust stains.

Your shorts are salt encrusted.

You are running out of space in your passport even though you got the one with extra pages.

You have no idea whats on television but know exactly what is going on upwind of you weatherwise. Speaking of this it is August 3rd and we have had no hurricane scares whatsup.

 

[Contest1]

Moveing from spiritual to actual in incremental steps.
5 weeks sofar this year 3 months coming up in October.
Lost track of the soaps, didn't realise I watched them!
Looking forward to company, tho I,m a dedicated single hander.
Loved getting home for a few weeks, usualy love getting away.

 

[simonthepom]

When you choose which bar / cafe / restaurant to go to based on the strength and speed of their wifi signal

When it's perfectly normal to adjust the solar panels 10x a day and the battery monitor becomes a constant source of entertainment/ bemusement/ irritation...

 

[BobnLesley]

Download a copy of the song 'Cruising too long' by Eileen Quinn, that'll cover it; better still, get all her songs and you'll learn all you'll ever need to know about the liveaboard/cruising lifestyle.

 

[Oscarpop]

When you buy pegs regularly, have 3 buckets for laundry and have a dedicated washing line ( it's laundry day btw)

When you stop calling it " the boat" and start calling it "home" . (This happened for us about 2 months ago, when I asked swmbo if we needed anything for "home")

 

[Oscarpop]

Oh, and when after being on this site for almost 10 years, I click he "live aboard" page first, rather than the pbo reader to reader, or scuttlebutt links. Started doing this 3 months ago

 

[ribrage]

Full set of matching luggage under your eyes from staying up all night at anchor

Instantly recognisable 100 meter stare that says - IM SHORTLY ABOUT TO LOSE THE PLOT

There's a Fog horn next to your bed instead of hand cuffs and a gimp mask

You've TWO locks on the gun cabinet and tossed the keys over the side

Your breakfast bowl has suction cups and you drink tea from a tomee tipee beaker

Your dog won't sit next to you coz you smell so bad

You sit in the park with tears in your eyes talking to the trees

Airport security have you on a bag search short list

 

[KellysEye]

Not wearing watch so not knowing the time or date and having to ask what they are when you clear in with immigration.

 

[Artic Warrior]

OMG you have just painted a picture of me in india,,,,,Hee hee

Your T shirts are faded and have orange rust stains.

Your shorts are salt encrusted.

You are running out of space in your passport even though you got the one with extra pages.

You have no idea whats on television but know exactly what is going on upwind of you weatherwise. Speaking of this it is August 3rd and we have had no hurricane scares whatsup.

 

[Artic Warrior]

When I listen to radio 2 on tinternet and laugh my socks of that there is another car park jam
on the M25,,,,,and the rest of the uk come to think of it.....

And like said before,,,,,when you call your boat home,,,,

 

[duncan99210]

When you closely examine the dumpsters when you're ashore, looking for that little bit of wood that'll finish off that job you promised SWMBO you'd finish off, rather than trying to find the timber shop. Not because you're tight fisted but because if you buy a bit of timber, you'll have to find somewhere to stow the remaining two thirds because you can't buy timber in 1 metre bits......

 

[dslittle]

When I listen to radio 2 on tinternet and laugh my socks of that there is another car park jam
on the M25,,,,,and the rest of the uk come to think of it.....

And like said before,,,,,when you call your boat home,,,,

When you have to ask what date is is (too frequent) and the all of the above (oh and apparently the Tube will be on strike later on in the month...)

And when the dog goes walkabout for 14 hours but still somehow manages to get back to the boat - five and a half hours after you should have left...

 

[LandM]

So just how do you know when you are a liveaboard?

All your clothes smell of mildew in the winter..........

You take a greater interest in those foil bags of wine, thinking ''ooh you could fit loads of them in the bilge"

you have to stop counting the number of bruises and black eyes........because your whole body is turning purple with the amount of bashes you get.

 

[Carmel2]

You're bleeding, you don't know how or when or even why it happened.

 

[laika]

You're bleeding, you don't know how or when or even why it happened.

+1... although that could just apply to sailing generally

I'll add:
Your belt smells of diesel and/or 10W40 and has a slightly bent buckle

 

[Carmel2]

When you have forgotten how many times you have taken the bog apart..............fecking thing!

 

[capnsensible]

When you spend the first ten years thinking you are some kind of born again hippie then in your second ten years re discover personal pride in your appearance and attitudes to non liveaboards......

 

[Nostrodamus]

You are the only one who doesn't want to win the big screen TV at the charity raffle.

You think “Game of thrones” is something you do when two people need the toilet at once.

Kids think you’re the coolest person on earth. Adults think you have lost your marbles.

 

[dslittle]

When you are sitting in a bar looking at your boat swinging like a peduleum and wondering if it is worth checking into a hotel (like now...)