Thread: Living on a boat in Thailand

If it floats fucks or fly's it's going to cost you.

Boat is an acronym break out another thousand

If I had a solid answer to this I would not be re writing songs. But there it is. You see it's all clear.. you were meant to be here..............from the begining..

Three hundredmsmacks gets you dity.

It will be vandalized or set on fire by the locals.... If you go for a khlong boat.

Me mate's hobby is building them and he has to keep it all hidden as the Thais can't accept you on their turf, err, water.

Besides that, and the smell, and everything else, it's a great idea.

Keep your 2 million. 15000 per month gets you a pretty decent house.

Originally Posted by Simon43

I'm sure the dolly birds (local tarts), would be quite happy to stretch out starkers on my 'pleasure' craft, as we cruised the waters.

...nowhere to stash the somtam pestle and mortar

Something is amiss in the above equation.

Originally Posted by Simon43

(local tarts), would be quite happy to stretch out starkers on my 'pleasure' craft

Anyways, time is (still) money...

Just rent a condo mate
Put no solid money in
It's too much of a gamble

That lifestyle is best left to a younger set, Simon...

Hmm...most boat owners are 40+ I'd have thought.

It's the TEFLing in Myanmar part that doesn't fit the profile.

I've got a mate in London who lives on a barge or narrow boat or whatever they are called in London (Southall area) he's in his mid fifties and loves it, not for me but each to his own.

Simon my friend, I really like you.

You are like topper,

That being you are a really good guy but not made for the rough and tumble of Thailand.

By that i mean ya fuk up all the time, good guys, but Thailand's bitches at the same time.

Silly fuking Idea Simon, rent ya self a nice Condo and a top whore.

Much cheaper and secure.

...but Thailand's bitches at the same time

Hmm, after my comments on the kinky sex forum, being a Thailand bitch sounds quite fun.

I broached the subject of living on a boat because living in a Jomtien condo just sounds... well.. rather boring.

For want of livening up my life, I can see myself ending up like Glitterman in Pattaya

We have a member on this forum Melvin, he might be able to offer advice. He has a boat in Thailand, built it himself, i know because i have sent and brought out spare parts for him. Sound guy and so would his advice be.

Converted rice barge on the upper reaches of the Chao Praya? Might just as well live in a riverside house.

Originally Posted by Simon43

For want of livening up my life, I can see myself ending up like Glitterman in Pattaya

My mate lived at Fremantle boat harbor for 5 years on his Boat.

Poor bastard nearly lost the plot, it takes a certain sort of fuck up to hack it Simon.

I don't think you are that guy.

I live in the van

Definition of a boat is a hole in the water you throw money into. For anyone else, a bad idea. For Simon, maybe cheaper in the long run than building yet another hotel for a thai lass.

Do you have the salty, brine taste of seawater in your veins, laddie?

Are the waves a'crashing in your dreams?
Barnacles in your brains and fish rot in your nose?

If so, you may be a full-time seafarer. Aye!




I spent 4 months working on an Alaskan processor.
It took a full month (afterwards) to get the ocean motion to cease and desist.

Originally Posted by YourDaddy

I live in the van

My mates boat had a shitter but the rules dictated ya had to go on shore and shit in their bogs.

His boat was maybe 400 meters away from the shitter.

Joking aint ya.

Further more he hardly sailed it simply because he had it set up as his Gaff.

Waste of time.

Not a bad plan. May have a few holes in it.

Go for it mate..boats are high maintenance however; lots of books out there ...lots to learn!
Go talk to yachties and management in a marina...we love to talk boats and have mines of useful and useless information.

I arrived in Thailand on my own keel (42' ketch).. an interlude in my life I am glad to have experienced.

I lived on a houseboat for a few years. It was a house built on a barge, not a boat with a motor or sails.






Fantastic place to live.


Knew people who lived on sailboats and motorboats which the cabins were below the waterline and very cramped. They stank of mildew and if someone took a dump, everyone inside would suffer. And very expensive to keep up.