What do liveaboards do all day?

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
 
Now there's liveaboards and what a friend described as "die-aboards". The former are very busy planning and undertaking cruises, hiking, sharing info on various fora, maintaining the boat, shopping for provisions, meeting folks, learning languages, reading extensively and eclectically, partying... oh yes, and partying ... Don't know what the others do ...
 
Judging by the posts here, we may be a bit eccentric, but most days in summer we go sailing. This is partly because our lightweight cat is a pleasure to sail in F2 to F5, partly because we get itchy feet after more than a couple of days in one place, and partly because our holding tank is rather small. Other days we go for cycle rides or walks. And some days we have to do the jobs we've been putting off. And we like fresh food every day, so have to find some shops.
 
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Nobody has yet cited the two standard definitions:

“Cruising - the art of yacht maintenance in exotic locations”

“Is it so nice as all that?" asked the mole, shyly...

"Nice? It's the only thing," said the Water Rat, solemnly, as he leaned forward for his stroke. "Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."

"Simply messing...about in boats -- or with boats... In or out of 'em; it doesn't matter. Nothing seems to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."
 
I have not read the complete thread.

But a lot of liveaboards spend a lot of time either here, or a similar venue. :( which seems - significant?

But might explain Post 54

Jonathan
 
Denek said:
We intend to travel from the UK sometime during next summer and slowly make our way south and at the moment have no plan other than to reach the Spanish Rias. We will then know if we like the life or not and either continue or come back.
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Hmmm. Don't go too far with the planning thing. We had a similar plan but are just about to spend our second winter in France - the initial plan was to slowly go back into the Med, we have taken slowly to a new level...
We have seen so many new liveaboards rush through to get to "A" without enjoying the places that they pass by enroute. Indeed, friends who were in the same Marina as us before we set off have just whizzed through France with four or five stops en route to the Caribbean and (in my opinion) missed some lovely places.
On the other hand, I do spend time planning our next stops. With a large number of tidally constrained stopovers and the swell/weather/forecasts created by Helene, my plans have changed three times over the last week!!!
Now where did I stow the antifreeze, the expansion tank is a bit low???
 
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