How much does it cost to live aboard a boat?
A pretty critical question, and fortunately, there are several resources available from sea-going bloggers who have kept track. Reading these over, it seems about $2000-2500 a month. The question on every cruisers lips is, “how long can I last?”
When you are in a boat with kids, you need as many things as possible to entertain. Preferably as small as possible. One that we took to the BVI last year was a GoPro camera. It’s robust, waterproof and you can wear it on your head!
We’ll be heading off to the Caribbean in about a week for our second bareboat charter. A big goal for this trip is about getting familiar with a bigger monohull. We have sailed on Lake Champlain with 30-32′ monohulls and have chartered a cat, but we don’t have much experience in a bigger monohull on the sea.
Continue reading “Countdown to USVI Bareboat Charter”
We were going to Burlington we made it half way there and then our engine broke and it started to get water in it and then we called the coast guard and they towed us in to the harbor.
So our O’Day 28 had a little bit of an accident. Go google “sailboat I89” and you’ll find out what happened.
After much looking, we have tracked down a great O’Day 322. A few years newer, and more room for us.
Sailing With Kids 