How do you spot a liveaboard or their boat?

[Nostrodamus]

We livaboard our boat and when going into somewhere new it is often good to see other liveaboards for a chat.
To make it easier for us how do you spot a livaboard in a crowd or how do you spot a livaboards boat?

 

[capnsensible]

They dont go home at night.

 

[snowleopard]

Stay-put liveaboards tend to have bikes, gas bottles, deckchairs etc on deck.

Blue-water liveaboards have several of: Wind generator, windvane steering, SSB aerial or backstay insulators, solar panels, bimini and additional awnings.

 

[Poignard]

They come round, polish off your booze and bore you stiff telling you how rotten England is and how clever they are to have left.

Also they never refuse the offer of marmalade or HP sauce.

 

[Lakesailor]

You're looking for visual clues

 

[Nostrodamus]

Lakes sailor,

Is this where you live?

 

[Baggy]

They come round, polish off your booze and bore you stiff telling you how rotten England is and how clever they are to have left.

Also they never refuse the offer of marmalade or HP sauce.

I have met them as well....

 

[quimby]

Usually found rummaging through skips!

 

[KellysEye]

>Stay-put liveaboards tend to have bikes, gas bottles, deckchairs etc on deck.
Blue-water liveaboards have several of: Wind generator, windvane steering, SSB aerial or backstay insulators, solar panels, bimini and additional awnings.

Agree, spot on.

 

[Lakesailor]

 

[Downsman]

Mmmm! Nice searchlight. Is that strake on the starboard side aft a little soft do you think?

 

[Signed Out]

Hmmm, Glasson basin... Should be down there right now instead of work.

Satellite dish from a caravan is always a good telltale.

 

[Nostrodamus]

They come round, polish off your booze and bore you stiff telling you how rotten England is and how clever they are to have left.

Also they never refuse the offer of marmalade or HP sauce.

Well it wasn't us as we would have scrounged spare books, and eaten all your food.
Does anyone have a spare bottle or two of Heinz salad creme.

 

[john_morris_uk]

Never mind the live aboard bit - that boat must be vying for the 'worst/poorest way to tie up a boat' award.

 

[Poignard]

Well it wasn't us as we would have scrounged spare books, and eaten all your food.
Does anyone have a spare bottle or two of Heinz salad creme.

I heard of one expatriate (not a yachtsman) who used to post his shirt-collars back to London to be starched!

 

[snowleopard]

Never mind the live aboard bit - that boat must be vying for the 'worst/poorest way to tie up a boat' award.

Perfectly routine on canals. One rope at either end. It works.

 

[Lakesailor]

Hmmm, Glasson basin... Should be down there right now instead of work.

Satellite dish from a caravan is always a good telltale.

White-goods on the side decks are a give-away as well.

 

[Nostrodamus]

Its intresing to see the difference between the Uk an Americaover the same question.
There answers are here
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...a-liveaboard-cruiser-or-their-boat-69574.html

 

[Lakesailor]

That's the difference between forums. They are obviously much more precious.

 

[prv]

That's the difference between forums. They are obviously much more precious.

I think part of the difference is that "liveaboard" in the US seems to have connotations of not going anywhere, being effectively a houseboat. Those who live aboard their boats and travel prefer the term "cruiser".

Pete