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Random curiosity poll, boat edition! ⛵

If you could do your job perfectly fine while living on it, there was a place to sail and put it, and you were given a perfectly functional and decent or even nice house boat with only a little bit but still enough space for you and your loved ones... All the conveniences and amenities, heck let's make it solar powered too, with a little garden... Would you live in one?
Would you live on boat, if given opportunity? 🤔

  • Ha! I already live on a boat! (0%, 1 vote)
  • It would be a dream, yes! (22%, 27 votes)
  • I'd like to try it for a bit? (38%, 47 votes)
  • It's not for me, no. (23%, 29 votes)
  • I do not trust the sea, lake nor river! (14%, 18 votes)
122 voters. Poll end: 23 ore fa

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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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I'm just idly wondering how many people would jump on the chance if there were no roadblocks and nothing stopping them. Some boats are the most adorable and cosy things ever, and there's a certain poetry to drifting on the waters and not staying in one place... But it's also apparently quite rough, and a peculiar way of life for someone not familiar with it, and can be horrendously expensive.

Me, I'd probably be too neurotic about the constant weather and dropping things overboard, but it might be nice for a holiday. And I do not trust the sea!

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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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"But Sini, why don't you trust the sea?"
Well. The sea is where death lives. One should have a healthy sense of respect for the sea.
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Saule, anar en Mousses
Saule, anar en Mousses
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I don’t trust the sea. I respect it and I have a healthy (I think) fear of it.
I love to sail though, on the occasions I’ve had to set foot on a sailboat (I even helped with maneuvers and knots and things !)
I think it’s a bad idea to trust the sea if you’re floating on it. Except if you somehow can read the weather and water like an open book ? And you’re a very fast reader.
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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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@PeryleneBleu I've only been on big ferries, ocean liners and smaller vessels so never even very close to the water, but I did like it. Sometimes I'll watch those travel videos where some entirely silent Japanese man goes on different boats, they're just very nice. But the sea should be respected!
@Saule, anar en Mousses
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PalmAndNeedle
PalmAndNeedle
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Spoken like a true old salt. Go try it! Lots of fun to be had, and Finland has some excellent cruising grounds.
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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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@PalmAndNeedle 😆 I've read enough books and poems, and seen disaster documentaries, that I'll never truly trust it... Heck, living in a coast town sometimes the sea will make the weather even on land kind of an ordeal!
I'd love to go on a tall ship at some point, but probably won't get around to it. That, and I'd probably get seasick too, and the anti-motion-sickness tablets do weird things to me.
@PalmAndNeedle
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Alien software, human hardware
Alien software, human hardware
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you cannot trust the sea, same as you can't trust any God.
No single human is significant enough for that.
The sea could roll over in her sleep, drown you and not even notice.
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Anne Deschaine
Anne Deschaine
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I'm afraid I like books and other paper-based things far too much to suspend them over a watery grave. (Also, of course, drowning is one of the most unpleasant circumstances I can imagine, kid hates swimming, and partner gets motion sick. An easy vote for land-based living!)
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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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@aehdeschaine I love swimming but also have the heat retention capacity of a clammy reptile, so the water has to be a very specific temperature or I can't handle it for long. Not ideal if far from shore, lol.
@Anne Deschaine
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CastAtWill
CastAtWill
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Not only do I get easily motion sick with slight movements, but even still water in a cup tries to choke me when drinking and I get distracted.

Trust moving, living water? No chance.

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Cade
Cade
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having lived on a boat many years, I can assure you that weather and things overboard are things to which you can acclimate. But what you must never forget is the pumps that may keep the boat afloat WHEN she starts to leak - pumps that must be kept in top condition for years while they do NOTHING! The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, they say - nowhere more true than on a boat.
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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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@CadeJohnson If engineers have taught me anything it's that Everything Leaks - maybe not now, but eventually, and one should prepare for the eventuality. 😄
@Cade
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Sini Tuulia @Cade can confirm

our house. on land. away from any body of standing water. and not even that close to running water.

has. sprung. a. leak.

(only when it has rained heavily, but still)

@Sini Tuulia @Cade
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kamikat
kamikat
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@CadeJohnson I swear I just became 7 years old and listening to my parents fight about fixing the boat.
@Cade
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Taz Poltorak
Taz Poltorak
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I've visited boats and while they look very cool, they seem to be a lot of work - I don't have to put my house in a dry dock every year to have its basement repainted. On the other hand, a houseboat is handy in an area subject to flooding. So, to summarise, erm no.
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David Bridger
David Bridger
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I lived on the sea for twenty years. Too arthritic now to do it anymore, but for anyone who is curious, and who isn't living in crippling pain like me, I recommend it as a good way of life.
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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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@DavidBridger Sagely nodding. Everything I've seen about suggests it's physically pretty demanding at the best of times, and sometimes pretty gruelling? I'd probably be unable to fasten or unfasten most ropes for example, as my hands are very dainty, weak and often hurty!
@David Bridger
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NilaJones
NilaJones
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@DavidBridger

Tiny hands are sometimes a great advantage when doing mechanical things!

I am often grateful for mine. I can reach into the tight small spaces

American made tools are often not made for my hands, though. But Makita fit me!

@David Bridger
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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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@NilaJones It's not so much the size, though that's often an issue... But just how many objects will absolutely defeat me because I can't open or close them without hurting myself. 😆 Even when I did serious training and managed a number of good pull-ups and multitudinous push-ups, I'd often be defeated by a jar or bottle cap! My hands, they're reasonably pretty and quite dextrous, just not very strong!
@NilaJones
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Sini Tuulia

can I answer

“Sleep I could not
on the sea beds
for the screeching of the bird.
That gull wakes me
when from the wide sea
he comes each morning.”

even if I had to look for the quote on wikipedia? :D

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska%C3%B…

@Sini Tuulia
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colorblind cowboy 😷✊🏻
colorblind cowboy 😷✊🏻
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Ideally as a second house. I like too much the architecture of a real house.
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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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@colorblindcowboy All the little ingenious designs used to make a lot of things fit on a boat tickle my brain, but I do like just being able to waltz back and forth when I want even if I have to move a couple of pieces of furniture!
@colorblind cowboy 😷✊🏻
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kamikat
kamikat
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My dad taught boating safety and I sailed every summer weekend with my family. I hate it. I haven't stepped foot on a sailboat since I was 20 years old after a very traumatic experience during a storm.
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NilaJones
NilaJones
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I was looking into this rather seriously. It was down to a boat or a van

Reading up on people's experiences, I got to the point where some guy woke up in the middle of the night in the winter, in the water

Ok, van it is!

I spent much of 10 years in the van. Only cut short by covid. I don't know if I will ever be able to get back to it, but I did love it

I had my three cats in the van with me 🐈🐾😸

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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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@NilaJones A lot of people also seem to be quite happy in vans! I've mostly spent time in a stationary one, sans AC, in summer... 😆 I don't think I could do it now, but it was fun back then.
@NilaJones
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Asta
Asta
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The Water is where the monsters live
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Asta
Asta
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SO. MUCH.

I'm legit terrified of any open water, I can't even play video games where you have to be in water because that's for sure where the monsters are! Even if it's not a monsters in water kind of game.

I would be a very bad boat resident.

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cuan_knaggs
cuan_knaggs
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me, a person that grew up in the semi-arid area called "the cape of storms" (yes, it's complicated): boats are cute but not very useful
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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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@mensrea You can't really go far in Finland without hitting a lake or river even if you're not close to the sea, so there's always a boat or three close... People will go fish on a boat in even the smallest lake! But we don't have canals and there's a lot of dams for hydropower so it would have to be the sea, or the interconnected million lakes region, if you wanted to go many places with a boat. Cute but not very useful. 😄
@cuan_knaggs
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Titia Schuurman
Titia Schuurman
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a Dutch-style stationary houseboat would be my choice. Many of them are purpose-built and actually resemble boxes more than boats, but I wouldn't mind. Enough living space and room for a garden on the deck, hell yes!
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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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@titia Oh, I'd fully forgotten about those! I've seen videos and they look very clever and cute. What a remarkable way to build.
@Titia Schuurman

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