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Relative_Election_81 t1_ixnhbbq wrote

I live on a boat and don't have a water maker so I'm careful to conserve water because I need to go ashore to resupply which isn't always possible depending on tide and weather conditions. That being said, between myself and two cats I typically go through about a gallon a day on days when I don't need to use any for things like cleaning or engine maintenance. That's just for drinking water and coffee, so it's fair to assume somebody in a house with readily available water would go through significantly more.

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lawngoon t1_ixnsczf wrote

Do you bathe with seawater? Is it a river? I feel like I want to watch a movie about your life, lol

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Relative_Election_81 t1_ixpz67t wrote

Actually yeah, I soap up with seawater and rinse with fresh water. At the moment I'm on a river because it's sheltered, but I'm only about a mile upriver from Portsmouth harbor, so it's tidal and saltwater. "I feel like I want to watch a movie about your life" lol funny you say that, I was going to start a YouTube channel documenting my life and travels but since I got stuck up here for the winter due to my mast being damaged I haven't done so yet because I'm as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. I can move with my backup electric motor (my gas motor was damaged at the same time as my mast) but the range is limited by my power capacity, it would really blow if I ran out of juice someplace not suitable for anchoring.

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SheeEttin t1_ixovg6x wrote

I like how half the people in the comments here are giving OP completely useless answers

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Relative_Election_81 t1_ixpz8p9 wrote

My answer gave him a decent idea of how much water he probably drinks per day, that may not be what he was looking for exactly but it's also not completely useless. Lighten up, it's just Reddit. This is the garbage can of the internet, don't take it so seriously

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SheeEttin t1_ixq71ec wrote

Sir this is the Internet, this is serious business

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Relative_Election_81 t1_ixq7his wrote

I think I'm going to rewatch the internet historian's "serious business" video now, thanks for reminding me of that 🤣

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averageduder t1_ixw9ciy wrote

My colleague lives on a boat in the Portsmouth area too. I don’t get it. Seems hard for the sake of it

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Relative_Election_81 t1_ixzi02n wrote

Freedom dude. It's about the freedom. No landlords, no mortgages, and if you don't like your neighbors you can just haul up your anchor and go someplace else. When you live on a boat you have a level of independence and self-sufficiency that's almost impossible to achieve any other way. If the power grid goes down I'll be the only guy in town who will have power once the generators run out of gas, assuming the grid going down is not caused by a nuclear weapon being detonated in the atmosphere of course. That being said, my electrical system absolutely would survive an EMP caused by solar storms. I don't have to worry about unwanted people knocking at my door, solicitors aren't going to paddle out here to try and get me to join their religion or vote for their candidate. My plan was actually to avoid winter all together by heading to florida until spring then sail back North to avoid hurricane season, but my mast was damaged so that plan will have to wait until next year unfortunately, even if I were able to get my mast repaired tomorrow I missed the window for good sea conditions and my vessel is not really big enough to handle the North Atlantic in winter conditions safely, not with my level of sailing experience anyway.

TL;DR I'm basically an antisocial hermit who lives in the middle of the wilderness, but since I'm on a boat instead of in the middle of the National Forest I get all the benefits of being a hermit in the wilderness while having most of the comforts of a normal home. I won't lie though, heat is a bit of an issue.

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