What are your more quirkier loves of the liveaboard lifestyle.

[ferroboat]

To start the ball rolling, when we had a house and came home from a night out i would just let myself in the front door, but each time i return to the boat and catch my first sight of her i always say to myself "I just love the shape of that boat"

 

[jerrytug]

Sleeping under way.. always a deep refreshing sleep, with fantastic Hollywood style dreams if I remember them.

Sleeping with the boat securely tied on to a big buoy, in a gale.. you have all the crashing noise and excitement of howling wind, knowing you don't need to do anything except enjoy it! That brings the most vivid dreams, usually involving the sea.

However when sleeping in bricks and mortar in London, I am acutely aware of the weird fixed immobility of the building, and also a consciousness of being surrounded by ten million utter strangers, most of them from alien cultures, and a fair proportion of them completely insane.

I am very lucky to live most of the time on a yacht. On the mole in Horta, in between the yacht paintings, is painted, "Sail to Feed Your Soul", I know what they meant!

 

[sailorgirl]

When we lived on land we only slept in "our bedroom" - on the boat at sea we feel free to crash in which ever cabin is most convenient and no one ever worries or comments. Just love freedom from convention!

 

[jimbaerselman]

Waking up with a different garden around the house . . .

 

[Tony Cross]

Being able to change the neighbours.....sometimes.

 

[Steve C Cronin]

Dawn then breakfast in the cockpit, in a quiet anchorage. I will miss it.

 

[ferroboat]

Waking up with a different garden around the house . . .

And not having to mow it.

 

[ribrage]

not having the post office delivering junk mail or bills daily

 

[BurnitBlue]

Talking with other yacht owners about just about anything. The base of common interest in sailing makes for understandable conversation.

 

[Peroo]

Not worrying too much when wanting or needing to break wind

 

[keithgdg]

Not worrying too much when wanting or needing to break wind

I agree except in confined spaces when swambo is around coz then I get 'that' look!!

 

[ribrage]

Not worrying too much when wanting or needing to break wind

Thats the attitude my dog has …...and the reason he sleeps in the cockpit as Mossie bait !

 

[Sandyman]

Thats the attitude my dog has …...and the reason he sleeps in the cockpit as Mossie bait !

Mossie bait lol ha ha

 

[Heckler]

I agree except in confined spaces when swambo is around coz then I get 'that' look!!

Pull the bed clothes over her head and tell her to take deep breaths, it will go away quicker!
Stu