Owning a Boat

I am very interested in buying a boat. A livable one and one that is drivable.

What are the rules for anchoring the boat or mooring? Do I need to own "land"?

Help appreciated.

Cheers
Stormy

You need to buy or rent a pice of land with enough water on it.

You can buy live-in boats but forget about driving them unless you own a mostly water sim.

I have some mooring space available in a really nice mainland waterfront sim, I'm negotiable on rental. I would suggest building your own boat, that's half the fun (for me at least)... drop a free boat script into it and you're motoring. I have a couple of boats for sale here too:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sabulella/247/184/21

pls. contact IM in world: whyroc Slade

ps. Also have roadside access parking spots available, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Buckler/121/112/57

You need to rez your boat, and if you live on it, you need to leave it someplace that won't return it to your inventory.

It is recommended you buy or rent someplace on or adjacent to a water sim for these purposes; take some time also to check out the nearby navigation--are there builds or ban lines blocking your channels? There are some wonderful areas for boating, but also areas that on second look would be frustrating.

A nice boat big enough to live on may not be driveable. Isn't there a 30 prim limit on moving objects?

You can have a boat you can live in, OR one you can drive. But not both in one. You would need your own land as someplace to keep the boat in-world.

Thanks for the replies everyone. The non-drivable boats seem to be more suited for living in.

I grew up with a large boat at a marina and its something I would like to replicate here in SL. I always wanted to live on that boat and now I can!

You can have both, sort of. I sell a live-aboard yacht that comes with a four-person speedboat, for example.

With regard to liveaboards, my advice is always the same: the first thing to do is find the amount of water/land you can afford to buy or rent. There's no point in buying a 750 prim vessel if you can't afford the land to put it on.

They do come in all kinds of configurations. Mine is 165 prims bare, or max 350 fully fitted out. Others are up to 1830 prims, though! It really depends what you want and the balance of prims/price.

Great review Sabrina. I am definitely interested....

Sabrina, I just im'ed you in SL.

Can you tell me more about your boat? I followed the links and the pictures look great. It appears to be the most roomy boat I have seen so far. Most make it hard to move around because they are so confined.

You say that you don't have to own land/water to use this? I may have read it wrong.

Stormy

Sabrina was generous enough to give us one of her yachts for our Relay for Life weekend and that boat is freaking perfect, and perfectly furnished - everything is beautiful, but remarkably low prim. The kind of thing you see and just want everything! MINE MINE MINE.

You do need a certain depth of water to use the hot tub, but there are several places you can rent marina space that are designed for live-aboard yachts. And this is the place I would recommend (just like it, I'm not connected to it):

Southern Cross Point Yacht Club, Bad Wolf Bay (70, 206, 25)

It's wonderfully well-designed for just this kind of SL lifestyle. Other marinas rent boat space, Nantucket being a great one if you want to sail, but this place is designed to offer you land amenities as well.

ETA Sabrina's yacht can be seen on Calla. Sorry I don't have the exact coordinates, but you will find lots of things to buy while you are looking for the yacht!

No for sure you need land of some kind. To SL its 165 prims. SL doesn't care if those prims are a house, a boat or a... uh, airplane?

You can easily rent waterfront space on an island sim. Then you just sink the land to turn it all water or whatever you want. Whyroc has a small marina and I'm sure he could configure it to hold the Calla's footprint. For the boat almost fully fitted out you'd need a 1536 plot - ask him what he'd charge

There must be other marinas around but all of the ones I know are configured for small, 30-prim speedboats and not large scale liveaboards.

Triz,

I just met with Sabrina on site and I have to say, although pricey, this is the nicest live on board that I have seen so far and I have looked at many. I am going to buy one for sure.

I would love to berth at a marina, similar to Santuary Cove here on the Gold Coast in Australia. Anyone want to go into business with me??????

Sabrina has offered me a plot too and I have IM'ed Evis to ask about water in ACTIV8 II but I am sure that will break the budget BIG TIME!

Triz thank you for the thumbs up - I missed that post! Glad you liked it

Stormy, check out the marinas Triz points out because I don't know of any, like I said. If you get stuck, I do have waterfront but mine is really bland and not the cool wayfareing thing at all. Yawn.

I may have to go with your offer Sabrina. All the marina's offer renting a yacht not wharf space. Sucks. I market worth getting into I feel.

I IM'ed Evis from ACTIV8 and asked about water there (bound to cost the earth though) and he said that they are planning on building a marina in the near future. As I can't buy my boat for another two months (darn Linden and their lousy Linden upload limits) the timing might be right. We'll see.

Hi Stormy,

We will be soon renting berths in our marina in the Port of Antibes - it's still under construction so if you are not in a hurry go take a look search for "Antibes" - beautiful sunsets too

Some very nice banline-free sailing around those parts - about 3 sims west of "Verloren"

Amy.

Amy thankyou!! I will check it out for sure and the timing maybe right.....

Sabrina,

Is it possible to get the boat with a door that can be locked? And the windows tintable?

Stormy, there is no such thing as privacy.

If your boat is slow, you might be able to make a livable one drivable. I am thinking of several large linked pieces that communicate their coordinates via messages. When the Wheel House part moves, it sends a message to all the other parts, and then they all move to the new spot.

There might be some problem with sychronization, so some clever two-phase protocol might help a lot.

Hi Storm,

I have an island sim with plenty of usable water (water you can have a boat sail through). The waterway is at least 8 meters wide all along two island. You can go and check it out. I am sure I can arrange a dock or something for rent to park your boat if your are interested.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hong%20Kong%20Island/128/128

Jack

Go to the Hollywood sim where you can rent berths and sail into another 33 sims some of which are open water with no land at all. The current plans for that area have new sims added almost every month with some of them being openwater sims as well.

Privacy? I am just don't want newbie's and the curious wandering onto my boat and using it when I am not there. You can get tintable windows in houses. My current house has them. I use it if I want to work on a skin or something and locked doors work too.

Sabrina's boat has a wide opening into the main living area adjacent to the spa. You can see straight into the boat. That is the only part that I do not like.

And thankyou Jack. I will checkout that link and Svar, I think I did look at Hollywood...can't recall why I didn't enquire further.

I have seen the boat, truly amazing build. Nice work Sabrina!

Stormy I think you may attract some attention anywhere you put it...hehe, as far as privacy goes you could put up some tasteful decorative screens or trees to block a direct view into the boat. Can't really do anything about the AV's with snoopy cameras though!

In terms of restricting access to the parcel, my neighbors and I have an informal no-ban lines agreement so no red tape, sorry. Sim is quiet, beautiful, well located... we could build you a custom dock and/or boathouse you could lock up your personal stuff in.

I'll respond to your IM when I get home..

-why