HOW TO BECOME A LIVEABOARD CRUISER! Sailing Q&A 21
Do you dream of living on a boat? In this how-to video about living on a sailboat and becoming a full-time liveaboard cruiser, we answer many of the questions we are regularly asked, including how much does it cost to be a liveaboard, and what should my monthly budget be?
OUR GUIDE: If you want to sell up and set sail, but have lots of questions, please read our guide, “How to be a liveaboard cruiser”. This guide, which accompanies the video, contains more in-depth information than we could cram into the episode, as well as additional chapters.
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We were inspired by the many people who contact us wanting to know how to become a liveaboard cruiser, and we hope that this guide will go some way to pointing anyone with even just the glimmer of a dream in the right direction.
We have broken this video into seven points, here are the time codes:
01:37 What is a liveaboard?
01:52 Why become a liveaboard?
04:18 Who can be a liveaboard?
06:21 The psychological leap
09:59 Gaining experience
10:35 Learning from the experts
11:30 Financing the liveaboard life
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GUIDE:
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12 SAILING BOOKS:
ENGINE FAILURE IN THE MALACCA STRAIT:
IS INDONESIA DANGEROUS? ep 87 :
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