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Recently facebook decided to show me a 2k Sq foot boat for sale for a thousand bucks. I live in Michigan and there's heaps of water everywhere. I could get a loan for repair work but I've never owned anything. I don't have a lot of interesting in owning a house but a boat SOUNDS really neat. However: the internet makes it sound like owning a boat is the worst thing that can happen to a person. People who have lived on a boat or are living there now: -how does it compare price wise to living on land -what are the obvious things you gotta know -what are the hidden things about boats that I should be aware of -what questions should I ask this seller -how dumb am I for considering this -do I have to get a permit or go to boating school -is there a good primer on living on a boat My friends are divided and I think the novelty is clouding my judgment of the reality. I will post boat pics when I receive them. Ominous Jazz fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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I tagged this wrong I am very serious but also very stupid here are the boat pics it's a bit of a fixer upper, to say the least Ominous Jazz fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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hey man thanks for being cool about this i was really nervous about the whole thing and you've really answered a lot of my questions this guy seems to be very normal so that's a plus, but there's also the practical question of how the heck to i get that boat to the correct side of Michigan. It is too large to go over land, apparently, so I would have to sail from butt-touching Indiana back to civilization (detroit adjacent). I got merit badges in boy scouts for swimming and canoeing but it's been a while and I've never piloted a boat with an engine. my friend bob has, so I can always enlist him. Ominous Jazz fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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Alright so I can't go through Michigan. The boat is 60 foot long and twenty feet wide. Going around michigan seems rough. But doable. The current plan is to find a boat expert in Indiana and have them give it the once over. This seems like a bad idea, so I'm very excited about it.
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Animal-Mother posted:This has great potential. Not for you, your life, your health, or your finances, but maybe for this forum. Thank you for the support. theflyingexecutive posted:I have lots of second hand experience from my friends who have lived and currently live on boats, including living on a boat eerily similar to that one. In terms of planning and thinking this through I found out about this yesterday. I could reasonably get a ten to fifteen thousand dollar loan to begin repairs, but I feel like I should find someone who knows poo poo about boats in Indiana to have them give it the once over. It would bum me out if the boat had an incurable issue. The interior seems like a heap of trouble. The biggest hurdle is the reality of piloting the boat ~600 miles around the mitten. I can't even find out how much marina space would (because Google sucks now)
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2024 13:33 |
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the edmond shitzgerald
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i wouldn't buy it without having someone who knows anything about boats giving it a thorough inspection.
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If i wasn't just coming out of life altering unemployment i would consider it
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theflyingexecutive posted:Hate to say it bud, but you lack the chaotic defensiveness necessary to start a goon legend. There's too many ifs right now and I don't think I can do this without becoming homeless if it breaks bad, funny as it may be to buy a boat from the time cube guy. If I was slightly more on stable ground this would be dumb enough for me to fall for
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