In that case it might be as cheap as living on land.* SO and Children usually require a bigger boat with more creature comforts.* Moorage will be your biggest month expense.* In the Seattle area moorage is $8.00 to $12.00 per foot, plus fees and taxes.* Insurance on a boat is a little higher rate than on land, but a lot depends on the boats age, value and conditions.* Every couple of years the boat will have to be pulled for bottom painting and inspection, which has ran*us about $2,000.00 per pull.*
The boat may require a big a mount to make live a board ready, which depends on the marina facilities and you using them.* The biggest concern is sanitation as holding tanks are not that big and need to be pumped out.* We get pumped out every weeks which cost $15.00 per week. Some marinas do not have a pump out service, so marina facilities are used.* General maintenance will be more and cost more but that is dependant on how you maintain the boat.* Being the boat is our home we keep the boat in like yacht condition.* *
Anyway being single, buying a reasonable condition live aboard ready boats, and using marina facilities you should be able to live as cheap as on land.*
-- Edited by Phil Fill on Tuesday 15th of December 2009 12:27:17 PM