Motorhomes have similar initial costs & depreciation costs as boats, and, while they have higher maintenance costs than regular autos, they much cheaper than boats.
Same principles of being unbound, paid & free camping, operating costs (gas, propane, electrical), but the complexities of land vs water are orders of magnitude simpler.
While living on a boat takes some research, most people are already familiar with driving their own vehicles, with millions having experience with camping, trailers or actual RVs. It's really a bit of no-brainer - there are armies of motorhomeless by the beach.
They range of true bandit RVs to pretty nice rigs that are stopping by while on the way to someplace else.
You’re absolutely right.
In fact, I have friends that do both.
They own a lot at a campsite with a couple of semi-permanent buildings for storage. They are allowed to live there for six months out of the year (In case they don’t want to travel). Everything on their site can be there permanently.
Sometimes they RV to where they want to be (kids, etc). Sometimes they take the boat. The campsite becomes the permanent mailing address. The usps has a service where they scan the mail sent to you so you can see what’s come in when you are away.
And God bless WalMarts - you can still dry park overnight in most of them. You can pump free in state run rest areas. The only issue with RVs is they don’t have sails.
With a sail boat, its possible to make a 500 mile journey on about a half tank of gas or less.
My goal is to just pick where I want to go and rent a house for a couple of weeks. During football season, I can rent my house for $1000+ a weekend for home games. That’s pretty close to break even if I want to go to the beach.
Try going to Australia in that though.
I’ll post when we get there.