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so 1 of my dreams was to live on a house boat
problem is I have never even been in a boat
and I dont even realy live by much water (except the illinois river)

here are some questions:
are there schools to learn how to drive boats?

or is that something thats just passed down by sailors or self taught?

is there rent on a house boat? (ya im seriously asking that lol)

is it true there is no laws in the middle of the ocean?

are house boats just as expensive as a real house?
whats an average price?

lets say I have a house boat on the ocean
can I just go any where or stop any where to sleep
or do I have to dock at certain times

are yacht’s the technical term for house boat? or are they something completely diffrent

sorry for all the questions
I have no experiance with boats
I just always thought it would be fun living on a house boat

pretty much any info on houseboats or the life style would be cool

I didn’t see it and given what it said on the back of the movie cover, I didn’t want to. On the back, it said that all the kids there out in the ocean in their yacht all took a swim and none could get up because someone forgot about the ladder. There was no way for them to get up.

Are they gonna design yachts with some kind of escape hatch so that in case they forget the ladder to get back up, they’ve got a plan B to get back in. And then they get eaten up by sharks. The thought of seeing it was too depressing. And it was based on a true story. I know motor boats don’t have that problem, but I see big yachts are different.

my family has always owned at least 1 boat and this year we bought a new yacht and i really like it… I wanted to throw my B-day party on it but my BF get sea sick…what should I do should I still have the party or should I find something else to do or should I go ahead w/ the party and do something else with him another time?

So my folks are looking to retire (rather nicely i might add) and might just sell their house, nearly everything in it, and buy a nice 60 footer yacht and just live the rest of their lives on it.

I’m trying to help them out and i’m wondering, what’s the standard upkeep for one of those things? I mean it’s gotta cost something with gas, repairs, oiling or something, etc. I’m not all that fluent with boats and sailing so i’m trying to find someone with a good estimate.

(For gas, let’s say they travel 100 miles a month on average?)

Thanks!

I’m just curious about the costs of owning a big boat. Like if I were to live on one. Sounds crazy I know, but what would the costs be of living on a powered yacht over a sailboat? I would rather be on the ocean, so would there be more cost cause of the salt water. I would like to be able to travel places like go to Europe or something crazy, is there a minimum size I should get? Is there a someway I could get a motorcycle on one? Any other things you could think of that would be helpful would be great? This is only out of curiousity, I’m way too poor to do it now. Someday.