T&T: : Full Time Cruiser or Livaboard?

[Jim Ague]

>  >>You are a full time cruiser!  never tell an insurance co. or a
> finance co. that you are a live aboard.... that conjures up images in
> their mind of homeless people on a half sunk derelicts...<<
>
> Well, that's about the worst advice I've ever seen on this forum!
>
I don't know who wrote the original piece of advice, but I interpreted it to 
mean: if you truly are a full time cruiser, be sure to call yourself that 
because of the connotations that "liveaboard" conjures up.

Except for those few that own a boat simply to work on it, rather than use 
it, I have found that boats of "full time cruisers", let's say on the go 7 
months a year or more, are in far better condition than those that don't get 
used.

Of course Al's advice is spot on, be very, very truthful with your insurer.

-- Jim Ague