• The Bard in GreenAEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        My cousin did this with her wife and they are very decent.

        The thing was a floating money pit though and was usually broken down and was sometimes uninhabitable because of various issues.

        Then the hull got damaged in a storm when waves banged it against the dock over and over again.

        Now they own a nice little house.

    • @LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
      28•1 year ago

      Some people live on yachts and that’s their entire home. So like a 70,000£ yacht, then like 300£ a month in slip (berth) fees, including electric and whatnot. I strongly considered it. It’s roughly the same cost but better than caravan living, IMO.

      It’s a decent alternative to a landlocked home.

      But yeah, millionaires with yachts are a different thing.

    • ladEnglish
      13•1 year ago

      My ex-teamlead owns a yacht (if he didn’t sell it). The catch is that yacht is worth about $40 thousands, not $4 millions.

      Also there was a person in USSR who built a yacht and circumnavigated the Earth on that, not everyone who do own a yach own that luxury slab of floating gold

        • ladEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          Somehow the response got lost 🤔

          It did float even though it was not new and not spacious. Then again, there are sail sport yachts that may be even cheaper but can’t be used as a home or to navigate an open water.

      • @768@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        30•1 year ago

        Noah would’ve been a genocide-complicit, doomsday cult prepper, similar to those who build private libertarian cities on the ocean or some planet as a climate adaptation strategy.

          • @danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            Not sure if you read your history book (the Bible), but he only brought 2 of everything. Including mosquitoes, flies, tardigrades, etc. Everything else died.

            • @letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
              3•1 year ago

              Not sure if you read your history book (the Bible), but he brought seven pairs of clean animals and birds (Gen 7:2-3).

            • @Ashyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              Yeah, not sure if you’re intending to be combative, but not every Christian believes that flood narrative is literal historical account.

              I was just being a little silly.