Suitable for Liveaboard?

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Hi all,
Been busy trying to find a boat I feel would be suitable for living aboard on a budget of up to £50,000. The three most likely candidates I can find are as follows:

Guy Couach 1280 Fly
Princess 41
Sunseeker Travado 40

The sunseeker is my fav of the three but I was just wanting to get some feedback from others, will be my first time living aboard a boat full time and its been my life long dream to do so.
Thanks,
Tara

P.s the main issue is heating, as my mum will be staying for periods and she can't take the cold!
 
Celticcraftz said:
Hi all,
Been busy trying to find a boat I feel would be suitable for living aboard on a budget of up to £50,000. The three most likely candidates I can find are as follows:

Guy Couach 1280 Fly
Princess 41
Sunseeker Travado 40

The sunseeker is my fav of the three but I was just wanting to get some feedback from others, will be my first time living aboard a boat full time and its been my life long dream to do so.
Thanks,
Tara

P.s the main issue is heating, as my mum will be staying for periods and she can't take the cold!
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Is that £50,000 pa :D

They all sound like MoBos to me:) Our rag and stick boats are a lot smaller. So if you have a good home for the boat with 220v shore supply. Heat with electricity. People live on tiny boats. People live on huge gin palaces. If it looks good and feels good, give it a try. Good luck and enjoy.
 
I suspect that any of the above will be OK to live on. However, if you intend to do any moving round the place, you'll need to have very deep pockets as they will drink fuel. Even my 6m mobo used 25litres an hour - which worked out at about £100 for a weekends fun. Sustainable when we had 2 incomes coming in, not on my pension alone!
 
Assume you are talking about living in the UK. The boats you are considering would not normally be considered suitable for permanent liveaboard. You have highlighted one of the reasons - the volume and the way it is used means that they are enormously expensive to heat - not helped by poor insulation. The second drawback is maintenance and running costs if you are going to use the boat. In that price range you will be looking at 20+year old boats with probably obsolete engines and systems that need a lot of looking after - even if you don't go anywhere.

For liveaboard a displacement low powered boat is much more suitable. They generally have much more usable space in relation to external size, and the space is broken up into smaller areas that are easier to heat. In the same way, sailing boats and motorsailers are easier to adapt to living on board and much cheaper to run if you do want to move around.

You have to accept though that very few boats are designed for living aboard full time - even a 40 footer has less usable space than a decent sized bedsit. So you need to think about what you are prepared to give up to live on a boat and what features are essential for you. This is all before you tackle the other difficult problem of where you are going to keep it.
 
It sounds like you have some experience of being on boats, is that the case? Yes, mooring costs and fuel for heating/propulsion will be high for the boats you've mentioned so maybe a more ""sensible" choice of boat and you'd probably be fine, i.e. smaller, at least not bigger than 12m, possibly under 10m, with a single engine and shaft drive?
Conversely a lot of people are selling their gas guzzling mobos and if you want to go down that route you should be able to get a real bargain quite easily. ...
 
Celticcraftz said:
Hi all,
Been busy trying to find a boat I feel would be suitable for living aboard on a budget of up to £50,000. The three most likely candidates I can find are as follows:

Guy Couach 1280 Fly
Princess 41
Sunseeker Travado 40

The sunseeker is my fav of the three but I was just wanting to get some feedback from others, will be my first time living aboard a boat full time and its been my life long dream to do so.
Thanks,
Tara

P.s the main issue is heating, as my mum will be staying for periods and she can't take the cold!
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buy something a little smaller, with everything on it you want and have cash to spare for the liveaboard adjustment.
 
Celticcraftz said:
Hi all,
Been busy trying to find a boat I feel would be suitable for living aboard on a budget of up to £50,000. The three most likely candidates I can find are as follows:

Guy Couach 1280 Fly
Princess 41
Sunseeker Travado 40

The sunseeker is my fav of the three but I was just wanting to get some feedback from others, will be my first time living aboard a boat full time and its been my life long dream to do so.
Thanks,
Tara

P.s the main issue is heating, as my mum will be staying for periods and she can't take the cold!
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Buy a sailing boat and if you cant, Learn to sail,
Youll appreciate it more,
Ive had both to liveaboard and id never go back to a motor boat.
Theres plenty of sailing boats for sail that people have done up set to sail the world, realised they are too old and the dream they dreamt is scary,
So you can get quite a lot of boat for 50 grand,
cost you not much to get anywhere and everywhere.
its a buyers market

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Theres 3 of them, just make offers, you dont know the circumstances etc,
if its costing them lots in moorings and transport to where the boat is they may take any silly offer, even better if the wifes nagging as she wants money from the divorce
 
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nauticalnomad said:
Buy a sailing boat and if you cant, Learn to sail,
Youll appreciate it more,
Ive had both to liveaboard and id never go back to a motor boat.
Theres plenty of sailing boats for sail that people have done up set to sail the world, realised they are too old and the dream they dreamt is scary,
So you can get quite a lot of boat for 50 grand,
cost you not much to get anywhere and everywhere.
its a buyers market

[links removed]

Theres 3 of them, just make offers, you dont know the circumstances etc,
if its costing them lots in moorings and transport to where the boat is they may take any silly offer, even better if the wifes nagging as she wants money from the divorce
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Totally agree about sail not motor but maybe something not quite so ambitious. Not the most practical liveaboard but that S & S does look gorgeous though...:)
 
Thanks

Thanks for all the feedback! I myself would prefer a sail boat but was thinking more of my mum. I will keep looking though, would prefer to find a sail boat as I like the idea of being more affordably mobile..the price of the fuel scared for motor scared me, had no idea it would be that expensive!
 
nauticalnomad said:
Buy a sailing boat and if you cant, Learn to sail,
Youll appreciate it more,
Ive had both to liveaboard and id never go back to a motor boat.
Theres plenty of sailing boats for sail that people have done up set to sail the world, realised they are too old and the dream they dreamt is scary,
So you can get quite a lot of boat for 50 grand,
cost you not much to get anywhere and everywhere.
its a buyers market


Theres 3 of them, just make offers, you dont know the circumstances etc,
if its costing them lots in moorings and transport to where the boat is they may take any silly offer, even better if the wifes nagging as she wants money from the divorce
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Really like the one in Portugal..
 
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