>>2855384
If you already have a pickup truck a trailer would be ridiculously cheaper. But all in all even if you went out and bought a brand new Winnebago off the lot it would probably be cheaper than a used boat. Boats are absolute money pits.

>>2855384
>>2855385
Living in a boat would be cheaper and more doable than living in an RV and traveling around.

>>2855386
How would that even be remotely true unless you already knew how to fix everything on a boat and navigate? Sure you get fucked with more on land by people but you can also get fucked with by nature unless im just overthinking how hard it would be to live at anchor. I see some of the bums in Portland live on the river but thats alot different than open water ocean.

>>2855388
The boats heart is the engine, as long as that is running fine and in good shape everything else is just small potatoes

RVs have all the wheels and drivetrain etc to worry about so they end up costing more in usual maintenance per month, a boat just floats but an rv has to drive up and down or over stuff

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>>2855386
>Living in a boat would be cheaper and more doable than living in an RV and traveling around.

No it wouldn't, there are FAR fewer places to dock a boat and thus you'll pay out the ass.

There are a bazillion campgrounds in the US.

>>2855489
Maybe if you had free campground parking from being disabled, if you know what you are doing for the same money you will have more space and freedom with a boat

>>2855492
You do know you have to pay for a place to park the boat right?

>>2855496
You do realize the ocean is right fucking there and you have an anchor for a reason right? Make sure your lights are up so no one collides with you at night and just fucking chill

Don't sleep on the water if it's going to be stormy in the next few hours no shit otherwise are you stupid?

>>2855384
>fuck around the west coast until I eventually drop dead or something
please have some decency to do it somewhere else where the wreckage of your trash trailer/boat and your rotting carcass won't trouble our overworked first responders

>>2855503
You uhhh, you okay there bud?

>>2855390
>everything else is just small potatoes
Lol no

Box Truck

>>2855497
>Don't sleep if the weather's bad
That's a ringing endorsement for a home.

>>2855623
>>2855623
On the open water, retard.

>>2855497
Tell me you haven’t owned a boat without saying I haven’t owned a boat. I suppose OP is just supposed to swim to shore every time he needs supplies. Let me guess nothing but rain water and fish. You’re a ginormous low IQ faggot and your parents are embarrassed of you.

>>2855390
>Theory crafting about maintaining a boat.

>>2855750
> Not just distilling sea water with your solar power sailboat.

ngmi

>>2855624
>on the water
Yeah that's implied by "boat."

>>2855862
to be fair fella said open water

>>2855492
National Forests and BLM have free camping. I think the limit is like 30 days at a time.
Also rest stops along interstates.
And Harvest Host is $99/year for thousands of places that will let you stay there in an RV.

>>2855497
dude what? lol

>>2855384
unless you really know what you're doing and somehow have access to a cheap boat that you can maintain, and have some way to dock it cheaply, then the RV is going to be more practical.
Maybe if you know enough to be a commercial fisherman you could do that and use it to fund dock fees and fuel and stuff. But personally I would do the RV.

>>2855872
Initially he just said "on the water," he only added the qualifier later and it's pointless anyways for any number of reasons. Why would someone who wants to "fuck around the West coast" be particularly far out? Even if he was, "don't go to sleep when it's going to be stormy" means your primary domicile is ass. Would you live in a haunted house where going to sleep during a storm meant there was a chance a monster might come out of the closet and eat you? And that's glossing over OP needing to dock & rent a car if he wants to go see some shit inland.

Unless you live somewhere tropical you WILL have to dock and store the boat on land during the winter. If you can sail then a sailboat could be cheaper then an RV, a motorboat of any real livable size has enormous fuel consumption. Either one requires a lot of DIY and spare capital in case something important breaks (rigging or the engine). I have lived semi-permanently in both and RV's are a lot simpler to own given they are automobiles and society is very car oriented.

Freshwater will be one of you biggest concerns in both, an RV could use filtration on freshwater lakes but a boat will require a RO system if you don't want to dock every week.

Unless you know places where it's free, safe and conviniant-ish to park or moor then don't bother with either, a marina can cost $15 a night, campground around $7.

also OP is both fake, gay and a FED poster.

>>2855384
You have probably driven a car before so I'd say go with the RV. Trying to just jump into a boat you live on and learning how to maintenance and navigate the seas sounds like it would be a nightmare and less of an adventure

>>2855385
B.O.A.T.
Bring
Out
Another
Thousand

>>2855384
You probably want to look into how much gas a boat goes through. You can easily burn 10+ gallons per hour.

>>2856903
How can you not realize the op is an idiot just wanting attention? Are you stupid?

>>2856903
Displacement type hulls are more efficient, but damn they're slow.

>>2856903
Why would anyone live on a boat without sails? The entire point of living on a boat is that you can go anywhere in the world for free if given enough time.

>>2856628
I am in the Coast guard and have been stationed all over the US. People live in boats all year round in every single waterway in the country as long as it doesn't freeze over, even in the Mid Atlantic

>>2855489
what is the difference between green and red dots?

>>2859646
I would guess federal vs state parks.

>>2855384
Man thats a complicated question. It really depends on the details. I have some family members who live on boats or have done so for a time. I think the overall question should be framed as "do you want to RV like a normal person or are you a boat weirdo." Because boat life is a different beast. Its also something most people eventually quit doing.
First question is: do you even like boating? Do you absolutely love fishing? And how do you like sleeping on a boat in choppy waters? Is being on the water your nirvana? Try it out and really consider it. Maybe rent a boat for a week and see.
Second issue: what size of boat? Bigger means more stability and amenities, but also more expensive. You really have to consider this well.
Third: really work out the costs of docking over many years. Some places are cheap. Most aren't. Stake out the cheaper spots to see if you even like them. Consider you also have to take the boat out of the water regularly to perform maintenance. If you somehow get a little plot of land with a boat crane on it that could take a lot of complications away, though it will add property taxes etc back in.
Fourth: investigate the different local regulations about staying overnight in the spots you like, including out on the water. Little use of doing the boat thing if you are always just forced to be in the harbor (i.e. boat rv park).
Fifth: do you have mechanical skills to maintain a boat? Not just the engine, but the entire thing is full of little difficulties that take some effort and particular knowledge. Boats often have a lot of specific parts that are hard to source, and there are fewer mechanics in general available. An RV isn't always easy either, but its less specific than a boat.

Benefits of a boat is distance between you and other people... Thats pretty much it. Oh and you can shit and piss into the water (though its often illegal) instead of having to use and empty a chemical toilet. And if you love fishing its great... Yeah

>>2855384
>Anyone here ever actually live in an rv or a small boat full time?
yes, van. 2 years out west
>does one cost more than the other long terms?
boat will cost more. boat stuff breaks often, materials are both high quality and expensive, marina slips..etc

just get a used cargo van and do a basic conversion then hit the road. dont blow you load on something you dont know if youll like.
I was on the road full time for 2 years (2022-2024) working remote. now im part time vanlife where I spend the summers in the van. I like to spend the summers in norcal and southern oregon on the coast. I enjoy it alot, especially when I find a nice place to camp near the beach

>>2855489
Brugly. Gas is $3.58/gal. You aren't driving your RV to any of those campsites.

>>2855503
there are no first responders in the west coast

>>2855988
>Would you live in a haunted house
how would you live in a haunted house? the owners are dead, they can't sell you the house

>>2856628
ocean water is fresh as fuck what are you saying

>>2862387
maybe he inherited it from his parents or grandparents
so the actual question is
>>2855384
OP do you think your parents/grandparents hated you enough to haunt you after their deaths?

I lived in a boat for a year when I was 17. I had to move to go to high school, but couldn't find a place to rent. A friend of my parents had a cabin cruiser he didn't use much, so I could stay in that. A great leap of faith, you might say, but I passed my boating license test when I was 14, and had been boating around since I was nine. Besides, I wasn't going to do much actual boating with it.
I mostly stayed nicely moored to a floating dock, but sometimes the owner would come and ask me to take him and his friends somewhere, so I did.
He owned the dock space, so all I had to pay for was the electricity, and gas for cooking. And use of the washing machine and dryer in the service building. I'd also shower there more often, because the on board shower was small, had poor water pressure, and the drainage and ventilation were for shit, so the moisture would be trapped for a long time. You had to dry it with towels to remove it before mold would grow. Hell, even hanging damp towels would have an effect on the indoor climate. The

>>2862408
>The

>>2862408
(sorry, dick fingers)
The boat was old, so new boats might be better like that.
This was way up in the Arctic, and since ventilation was mostly manual, I didn't do a lot of that in the winter. It was hard to keep the boat warm then. I used one 2kW radiator and one 1.5 kW heat fan (to help circulate the air around), and the sitting space, behind the cabin, would eventually heat up. All the glass surfaces would bleed heat. I know now that some people winterize their boats for living on board during winter, with extra insulation and whatnot. That wasn't an option for me, so I was cold in the winter.
Since I was young at the time, I didn't have many things. That's a big plus, because there's not room for many things. You will need to move all your stuff out of the way, open hatches in the deck, cover up the carpet, and contort yourself into a pretzel to get at the septic pump, take it out, put it in a bag, carry it up on the dock, clean it in cold water (because that's what you've got), and diagnose the problem while the inside of your boat smells like shit for the maybe a week or two until you get the parts you need.
Also had exhaust leaks twice, that meant a complete wash of the whole thing. That's not too bad, and I probably needed it since I wasn't a very fastidious kid. Biggest problem was that the sitting furniture is screwed to the hull, so once again you need to contort yourself into a pretzel to get at the screws to unfasten it so you can clean it. And there was synthetic leather everywhere too, that was a bitch and a half to clean. Condensation would get trapped under it, moisture would pearl up on it (I remember one part dripping water on me while I boiled water for cup noodles). And then there's the wood, which needs treating.
My takeaways from living on a boat are to just rent one if I need one, and that I don't want a boat where I have to deal with any plumbing more complicated than a bilge pump.
But I'm grateful for the opportunity.