Pack Mule
TF Site Team
- Joined
- Jan 24, 2013
- Messages
- 3,749
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Slo-Poke
- Vessel Make
- Jorgensen custom 44
Hey guys,
I 'm only been on this forum a few months and haven't had a lot of input.My wife and I just boat our first trawler back in September and have been working on it almost every day since.We owned a 1965 32 ft sailboat before the trawler that we restored, but sailing on the river just wasn't much fun. We seem to find more reasons to go to the boat than to be at home.We have already spent more time on this boat in less than a year than we spent on the sailboat in 8 years.Maybe the new hasn't worn off yet. We are only 15 minutes from the boat so it is easy to say lets go. You all know how it is it's just different at the boat.I'm sure that that changes when living aboard. I work every day and my wife takes care of everything at home and works on the boat all the time ,cleaning , varnishing and painting. We both work on it in the afternoon and some on the weekends.We are about done for this year with new projects planned for next year.
We get a little liquored up on the rum and we start talking about selling out and buying a bigger boat and living aboard. I would like to do some of the loop south someday. I will need to work another 7 to 8 years before being able to take off for a while. The boat would only be about 25 minutes to work. The wife would be at the boat most all of the time.One of the things that concern me the most about living aboard is being bored while at the slip for the both of us,mostly for her during the day.I have a woodworking shop and I use it for making stuff for the boat.I know that I will have to give that up but I also know that I will probably need it for whatever boat that we wind up with. I'm sure that some of you have had all these same thoughts and have had to work through them. If anyone wants to share some thoughts we would be appreciative.
I 'm only been on this forum a few months and haven't had a lot of input.My wife and I just boat our first trawler back in September and have been working on it almost every day since.We owned a 1965 32 ft sailboat before the trawler that we restored, but sailing on the river just wasn't much fun. We seem to find more reasons to go to the boat than to be at home.We have already spent more time on this boat in less than a year than we spent on the sailboat in 8 years.Maybe the new hasn't worn off yet. We are only 15 minutes from the boat so it is easy to say lets go. You all know how it is it's just different at the boat.I'm sure that that changes when living aboard. I work every day and my wife takes care of everything at home and works on the boat all the time ,cleaning , varnishing and painting. We both work on it in the afternoon and some on the weekends.We are about done for this year with new projects planned for next year.
We get a little liquored up on the rum and we start talking about selling out and buying a bigger boat and living aboard. I would like to do some of the loop south someday. I will need to work another 7 to 8 years before being able to take off for a while. The boat would only be about 25 minutes to work. The wife would be at the boat most all of the time.One of the things that concern me the most about living aboard is being bored while at the slip for the both of us,mostly for her during the day.I have a woodworking shop and I use it for making stuff for the boat.I know that I will have to give that up but I also know that I will probably need it for whatever boat that we wind up with. I'm sure that some of you have had all these same thoughts and have had to work through them. If anyone wants to share some thoughts we would be appreciative.