What do live aboards do in winter?

[NornaBiron]

How much was open in Symi Steph?

A couple of bars/coffee shops, the grill houses, one taverna and the usual shops. Giorgina's and Taxas supermarkets have summer hours year round! Ferry delivers post and provisions twice a week. We anchored in Pedi initially then went to Panormittis whilst a blow went through, then back to Pedi.

 

[Carmel2]

Sounds alright. If your still in that neck of the woods in June we might pop by....

 

[NornaBiron]

Sounds alright. If your still in that neck of the woods in June we might pop by....

We'll be in the Argo-Saronic until August when we'll make our way back to Symi.

 

[sailaboutvic]

Which months do you call winter? If I was living on board in, say, Spain, the temptation of drinking and eating ashore most days would be hard to resist, the food is mostly excellent as is the wine, so I would need to be strict with myself, but I'm not sure I'd want to be! The temptations might just prove to be too great, which is a concern. So I'm not criticizing anyone for living a lifestyle that I may well enjoy, it's just interesting to hear how you all spend your days. I guess having some sort of routine becomes important, but no doubt that routine evolves as you spend more time on board.

Hi LJS
I wasn't suggestion that you where criticising anyone , apologise if it sounded that way .
Has I said before , full time Liveaboard isn't for everyone .
We try and use Marina for Dec Jan and Feb although this year we going to sit March out too , Mainly because we can't get a haul out till the begin of April so we will leave here sometime the last week in March , other wise we ready to move on now. .

 

[blampied]

Which is surely fine for a day, or even a week or two, and quite tempting at Spanish prices, but over the course of say 5 months can't really be a healthy way of spending a winter?

5 months? Winter around here is far shorter than that.
We were still topping up suntans, sitting outside the local cafes until a few weeks before Xmas.
From then on there was just enough time to pull out and reconfigure the dashboard instruments.
Then Yesterday the sun returned in earnest and we started on this years sun tan.
Simples me thinks!

 

[RAI]

Has someone mentioned
http://liveinfo.lagosnavigators.net/httpdocs/
?

 

[hlb]

John, have you thought of going home for a few months. It makes the next trip far more interesting.

 

[lindsay]

For the liveaboard is not the boat your "home"?

 

[longjohnsilver]

John, have you thought of going home for a few months. It makes the next trip far more interesting.

Hi Haydn, still out in Spain for another week or so, then back home. Only problem is I don't want to go back home but Debs does. But I do need to get back to move Eos out of Sutton by the end of March otherwise they start charging almost £100 per day!!

 

[SamanthaTabs]

For the liveaboard is not the boat your "home"?

Precisely!:encouragement:

 

[vyv_cox]

Precisely!:encouragement:

It's just semantics really. If I live on board for six months of the year but have a house in UK am I not living? If I am not living aboard what am I doing?

 

[stranded]

It's just semantics really. If I live on board for six months of the year but have a house in UK am I not living? If I am not living aboard what am I doing?

Is that right though Vyv. As one who is preparing rather than have done, it feels like it is as much a state of mind. We are working through three possible permutations:

- Keep house in uk, maybe do holiday lets in the summer

- Keep house and let out full time

- Sell house

Each feels very different to me. In particular being able to get on a plane 'home' whenever we want is certainly a less scary prospect. Perhaps less adventurous too. But we are doing this to enjoy, not prove something. Aren't we.

 

[vyv_cox]

Is that right though Vyv. As one who is preparing rather than have done, it feels like it is as much a state of mind. We are working through three possible permutations:

- Keep house in uk, maybe do holiday lets in the summer

- Keep house and let out full time

- Sell house

Each feels very different to me. In particular being able to get on a plane 'home' whenever we want is certainly a less scary prospect. Perhaps less adventurous too. But we are doing this to enjoy, not prove something. Aren't we.

I'm not arguing. The implication seems to be that if I am not in my boat for 12 months of the year I am not a liveaboard. So how long do I have to be aboard to qualify?

 

[RAI]

I'm not arguing. The implication seems to be that if I am not in my boat for 12 months of the year I am not a liveaboard. So how long do I have to be aboard to qualify?

I seem to remember previous threads on trying find out how many long term cruisers or liveaboards there were in the world. My offer is that you are a liveaboard when living aboard and not when you're living in a house, campervan, ditch, whatever.
This covers the case of the weekend sailor sleeping onboard on Saturday nights (pissed). To the no-other-home-to-go-to hermit.
Do liveaboards have to be dieaboards to fully qualify?

 

[Tony Cross]

Well, 16 of us have just come back from a very rewarding and challenging 10km hill walk up into the heartland of Crete. We followed that with a social gathering in a local bar, to which several non-walkers turned up. Nobody got drunk, lots of ideas and some good advice was exchanged as well as lots of amusing anecdotes. In addition we've all benefited from some excellent cardiovascular exercise and seen parts of Crete that you cannot see any other way. Who said winter was boring?

 

[lindsay]

How about this for a deep liveaboard quote, picked up on some US website dealing with elderly livesboards such as myself:

"Beat the nursing home, die on the boat"

 

[nortada]

What do liveaboards do in the winter? One objective of being a liveaboard is not doing winter.

 

[GHA]

I will tell you what we do in the uk ........ We sit onboard with the rain pouring down with gales screaming in the rigging and enjoy the snatching of the mooring lines .....Iv never known such an awful winter for live aboards in the uk as his year !!!

Yup.

Never again.

 

[Tony Cross]

What do liveaboards do in the winter? One object of being a liveaboard is not doing winter.

Good point. Perhaps we should refer to this period as "not quite summer" then?

 

[dslittle]

- Keep house in uk, maybe do holiday lets in the summer

- Keep house and let out full time

- Sell house

If you can get away without doing so, DO NOT SELL HOUSE!!! That is if you have the slightest thought of returning to the UK in the future (many previous threads on reasons for doing so).