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"Anyway, the point is the liveaboard community is a seperate society and networking is what finds the info or parts or person to teach you. There’s a site called livingaboard.com, that has a forum, and every sailing forum has a liveaboard section somewhere.

If I were the newbie, if I found a cheap deal with enough room in a liveaboard community I’d just live the life, it’s an inexpensive life if you choose it to be so. If you like the life, you’ll have seen a lot of boats and gone out on a few, plus having already adjusted to the drawbacks...less room, storms, always a “to do” list. You’ll know exactly what you want.

Shopping for an initial startup fixer-upper, for a single or couple, 5k would get you something. Even 3k, I would still shop. But shop the docks, not ads. Take a vacation visiting marinas, liveaboard marinas are guaranteed to be full of people with advice, make friends.

It's notions like these that guided my design philosophy in setting up our three space-bourne Habitats.

We gathered in all the plants, seeds, people, and tools we'd need for an extended walkabout between the planets, and then we took off for "where no man has gone before".

Our Habitat design has three Habitats rotating around a common axis of rotation, for artificial gravity, but each one operates on its own time schedule. They are eight hours apart so that at any particular time some folks will be naturally more awake. That's how we split up the watches.

While we are not technically under way, we still have to keep an eye peeled around our neighborhood for wandering big rocks, and speeding smaller ones. Still, the Asteroid Belt is a good place to pick up useful materials, and we do.

Eventually, when the rest of the human race catches up with us, we'll be like a trading post out here. Trinkets and googaws our specialty. Bring your own oxygen.