Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 284 pages
- Published by: Paradise Cay Publications April 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0939837668
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0939837663
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Review
An absolute "must-have" for anyone considering making a boat one's permanent dwelling. --
Midwest Book Review - October 2004Before you [liveaboard], read this well balanced look at the subject. You'll encounter fewer surprises. --
Lin Pardey, Author, Educator and World CruiserIt's straight talk from a liveaboard sailor who made the mistakes so you will not have to. --
Linda Ridihalgh, Editor, Living Aboard Magazine
Product Description
The Essentials of Living Aboard educates both dreamers and explorers with information about this wonderful and rewarding lifestyle. Mark Nicholas has combined his experience of life aboard with the advice of other liveaboards, marina owners, technicians, boat manufacturers and advocates in order to detail the challenges and offer real advice for success. This lifestyle, typically thought to be out of reach or "for other people," is now available to all who dream.
Essentials explains, among other things how to:
•Figure out your requirements
•Choose the right boat
•Buy your boat
•Choose the right marina
•Prepare for the lifestyle
•Outfit your boat
•Plan for all climates
•Forecast your costs
•and more!
Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Essentials Of Living Aboard A Boat (Paperback)
A seasoned and experienced sailor, Mark Nicholas has written an ideal introduction for anyone aspiring to enjoy life aboard any kind of boat in The Essentials Of Living Aboard: The Definitive Guide For New Liveaboards. The reader will learn how to choose and buy a boat that is appropriate for one's needs, including the finesse of the buying process, negotiations, insurance, and financing, amenities aboard a boat, navigation and safety matters, sanitation issues, legal issues, tips, tricks, and techniques, and more. Of special interest is the warnings about search, seizure, and forfeiture - even though a boat may be one's home, it does not have the same protections against search and seizure as a landbound home. Furthermore, forfeiturelaws mean that the government can seize property (including the boat one lives upon!) and never return it, even if the owner is never accused or convicted of any crime. An absolute "must-have" for anyone considering making a boat one's permanent dwelling.
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