Living aboard full time feels less like a postcard and more like keeping a small house that happens to float, sway, and occasionally decides it wants your attention at 0200. The sea is the easy part some days; it’s the little domestic things—water, power, heat, damp, laundry—that set the pace.
After a while you stop asking, “Where are we going next?” and start asking, “What’s likely to break, what does it cost when it does, and who’s cooking when the wind pipes up?” If that sounds like fun on most mornings, you’re already on the right tack.