And we're back living on a boat....But, it's not what you think! ;)

I've said it before, and I'll say it again....the boating community is some of the nicest people we have ever met!! We had numerous other boaters offer us their extra cabin when we so quickly became homeless. But knowing how small a boat can be, we didn't want to invade anyone's space that way.

We didn't however mind {too terribly much} invading family's space, when we crashed their vacation and spent 5 days with them on their 37' fifth wheel. Thanks again for that!! ;)

We then spent a week at an extended stay hotel and was starting to wonder where we would be living next, when we were offered a boat to stay on...score!! One of hubs' coworkers had just bought a 40' Marine Trader trawler and wasn't planning to move aboard for a little while. So when he offered to let us live on it through the month of September....we graciously accepted!! 

Now, because it's not ours I don't feel right about sharing photos of someone else's boat, especially without their permission. But please go do a bing/google search on this type of boat {if you don't already know what it looks like} so you can see what awesome digs we temporarily have!! 

It is seriously so huge compared to Irie! It's like a mansion in terms of size comparison.... About twice a day, I hear hubs saying, "how he is going to have a hard time getting me back on a sailboat" ....especially all these small ones he's been looking at lately! And yes, all boats are small compared to what we are currently staying on! :) 

As much as I do love power boats, I know fueling them would be quite costly and wind is free....blah, blah, blah! :)  We will be back on a sailboat....soon, I hope!! In fact, we are planning a mini-road trip this weekend to go look at some boats, so wish us luck in our search for the next boat! 

Why am I not more stressed out about being homeless?

I guess I have Irie to thank for that! When we, ahem I, named this blog, it was decided that no matter what boat or boat name we had, the blog would always be Forever Living Irie. Because who wouldn't want to forever live with no worries? Ok sure, there is always going to be some worries, but for the most part, life has certainly taught me that, worrying is no way to live! 

With that in mind, we have lived the last 14 months on Irie, relatively, care free! It's a simpler way of living on a boat and that's fine by us!

Oh, but don't get me wrong though! It's not all sunshine and butterflies! There are plenty of day to day chores to take care of, week to week maintainence that is never ending and monthly tasks to stay on top of. Sure we don't have to mow grass anymore, but tell me, how many times a day have you checked to see if your house is taking on water, or growing mold? I think you get the picture! I would even go as far to say that, there is more work living on a boat than when we lived in a house! However, through all the extra work, changing the way we do, almost everything {and I do mean e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.} & constantly thinking outside the box of normalcy, we choose to live with the mindset of, no worries!

As I was typing this post, our boat was already 85% packed up and we had approximately 1 day left before we had to be completely off the boat. I had no idea where we were going to be living in the meantime...but I've got to say, we both look pretty calm & relaxed hanging out in our empty boat for the last time! 

So for now, we are temporarily taking up residence at a nearby extended stay hotel. 

Of course, I am missing my marina-living life already, but this normal shaped bed, bathtub and big TV are a nice change!! What's really great is, being able to watch HGTV's Tiny House Big Living show.....although, that just makes me miss my boat & my own tiny "house" living.   ={

Our mantra has basically become, "We'll make it work...we always do!" 

Until next time.....

Congratulations....we're homeless!

Well that was quick!!!

They say the happiest two days of a sailor's life is:

1. the day he buys his boat 
   
   
   
2. the day he sells his boat 
   

Call me crazy, but hubs seems a whole lot happier in the first photo than the 2nd one! 

Poor guy! I hope we find the next boat sooner rather than later, so we can get back to that happy place in our life!! 

*Full update coming soon....

Living on a vacant boat

It is not fun living on a vacant boat. Why is our boat vacant, you ask? Well, we've sorta sold it!  As I'm sure you already know, we have been wanting a bigger boat for quite some time now. So, we  decided to put this one up for sale  before we buy the next boat so we don't end up with multiple payments.  Everyone told us our boat will sell pretty quickly.... We thought, maybe a month??  That's pretty quick considering our house sat on the market for over a year. Well,  it was on the market for about 10 hours and we already had a contract on it.  The survey was done yesterday, but here's the kicker, they wanted our boat to be completely empty when they did the survey. So, we started packing....

Thursday afternoon after I got off work, we finished packing and moved everything off the boat! We decided it was better to work after the sun went down, while it was a somewhat cooler than during the day and be insufferably miserable.... So, from about 10pm to 4am Friday morning we made trips back-and-forth from the boat to our cars and storage and then cleaned the boat until it was immaculate!!!

We haven't heard back from the broker about the survey.....so now we wait! We still get to sleep on our boat, but it's not as comfortable as it used to be. We have two blankets & our pillows, that's it! There's no pictures, no decor, no personalization that says this is our boat! No food & no dishes, no cooking or eating! We did plug the DVD player back up, so we can at least watch movies, but that is the scope of our life right now! If you thought we were living minimal before, you should see us now!!!