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Date Posted: 06:03:36 10/24/08 Fri
Author: RadioRay
Subject: "Oh You Lucky Dog!"

Even last year, the idea of living aboard a small boat was seen as 'cool' but not necessarily desirable. Now - with the economy tanking, jobs beginning to dry-up, housing in decay... well, the idea of a small sailboat that is paid for, my marina paid one year in advance and really - the marina is a nicety because I still work ashore. However, it is far from a necessity. So, in all, it's a pretty goo lifestyle.

I sleep under the open hatch, generate my electricity for lighting and communications/shortwave listening for entertainment and as long as it lasts I have WiFi int the marina for things like this. I'm a bit short on space - sure enough and it's a tight fit with more than two aboard, but so what? We have more and more articles about yuppies now sleeping in their cars because of their being evicted from their houses when the job market and housing sales slumped. My guess is that many of them would be quite happy to be liveaboards in something designed for this purpose.

Dockmates here are building a house nearby. They own over 10 acres of land with water access. We've talked garden space for other dockmates in exchange for part of the harvest. We have engineers, medical, and a full set of building skills -= all within our little dock. Frankly, I don't look forward to a general calamity, mainly for concern over the potential for wide scale rioting etc. and of course the excuse for governmental over reaction, which generally is rained down onto honest citizens, rather than the criminal types, but if it were to go 'bang!' it's a good life being a live aboard with a few small plots of land. If the politicians become too think while they steal what we've earned 'to spread this around a little bit', the default position is to go cruising and use the pyres of burning cities for navigation... ;^) As Jay mentioned earlier - mobility is a strong tool for anonymity and freedom. Being independent of politically controlled infrastructure is very important if things go badly.


>Ray
s/v Milenka
Weems, Va. - USA

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