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Boat Forum / Cruising / November 2004Post?
Hi there, This is a serious question even if it is a little unusual, if you are a liveaboard how do you get post or mail? Do you have a PO box, or something? If your moving constantly how do people send you things? or don't they? Is it a life free from junk mail???? I'm thinking of one day living on a narrowboat as it sounds like a fantastic life, perhaps I'm a little young at the moment (only 20) but who knows anything is possible! Many thanks, Nick >Hi there, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >fantastic life, perhaps I'm a little young at the moment (only 20) but >who knows anything is possible! Depends on where and how you are living. Living aboard does not always mean moving around. Lots of people live aboard at marinas or in some relatively fixed location. There are even people that do that who have regular jobs. In that case you can get mail at the marina or at the PO. If you are moving around, lots of people use a mail forwarding service which has what is referred to as a PMB (private mail box). The service holds or forwards mail as directed. You pay for this as you would for a PO box in a regular PO, but a little more to account for the cost of forwarding stuff. Sometimes the people that run the PMB will also open mail and pay bills etc. Depends how you set it up. In our case, we still have a house, so the PO forwards all our mail to one of our children who takes care of things for us. We are not free from junk mail, but it is thrown away by our daughter and I think would also be thrown out by a PMB. grandma Rosalie Cheers! I have another question that springs to mind, if I were to buy a boat would I be legally required or perhaps moreover bound by etiquette to keep the name. The only reason being that a boat has been in my family for a few years, and I would want to 'keep the name in the family' as it were. Any thoughts? Nick >Cheers! >I have another question that springs to mind, if I were to buy a boat >would I be legally required or perhaps moreover bound by etiquette to >keep the name. The only reason being that a boat has been in my family >for a few years, and I would want to 'keep the name in the family' as >it were. >Any thoughts? Some superstitious people say, that to change a boat's name will bring her bad luck. Then the same people say that you have to follow a certain procedure to change the boats name. I think this procedure has been repeated in this forum for some 5 times during the last 15 years, so you might be able to find it by using your favourite search engine. If the boat is somewhere registered the keeper of the records must be notified, but otherways there should not be any trouble with the change of the boat's name. People and even towns and countries change names. I have kept the name but changed the boat for a few times, makes it easier in some bureaucratic procedures. The telecommunication authorities did not demand a new VHF licence as long as the name of the boat was the same. They did not have any interest that the lenght of the boat grew a few feet and the weight about doubled. (You see what good care can do.) - Lauri Tarkkonen >>Cheers! > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >>for a few years, and I would want to 'keep the name in the family' as >>it were. You would not be legally required. Whether your family would care that you didn't keep the name is something you will have to ask them. >>Any thoughts? > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >boat grew a few feet and the weight about doubled. (You see what good >care can do.) You must be bringing that little boat up right - lots of good nutritious food LOL grandma Rosalie >>>Cheers! >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >>>for a few years, and I would want to 'keep the name in the family' as >>>it were. >You would not be legally required. Whether your family would care >that you didn't keep the name is something you will have to ask them. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >You must be bringing that little boat up right - lots of good >nutritious food LOL The Britons say, that a man should have about one foot of boat for every year of his age. Whatver I do, the boat does not keep up with my advancing age. The last desperate effort was a rear extension of a bit more thatn a foot, but the boat is now lagging some twenty feet behind. On the other hand I am sure that I would have much more trouble hoisting a mainsail for a 60 footer then what I do with my present 40 footer. :-) So every coin has two sides. - Lauri Tarkkonen > >>Cheers! > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > You would not be legally required. Whether your family would care > that you didn't keep the name is something you will have to ask them. Just reviewing some of my old posts again whilst I have 5 mins to spare. I explained badly! What I want to do is buy a boat and change the name to that of my grandfathers boat. Not from a name established with my family to something else! Thought I'd just clear that up! Thanks Again! Nickoli Vigor's ceremony. Do it if you change the name on your boat. ** http://www.48north.com/mr_offline/denaming.htm ** > Cheers! > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Nick The is no reason not to change a boats name. In the very old days a boat's name was carved in the mast - so then constant changes weakened the mast. That's how the superstition arose. Regards, David  SignatureWeb site: https://www.gbenet.com 100 + links to OS/2 Sites + News IBM Business Partner - Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 IBM OS/2 Warp 4.5 - FX Firewall Professional. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. 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