• grue@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    What people think of when they hear the word “yacht:”

    The size of boat the whales are actually attacking:

    I know everybody wants to root for the whales attacking the billionaire 1%, but that’s not what’s actually happening.

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        7 days ago

        I know plenty of people who are by no means rich who live on boats that size. Its basically the marine equivalent of living in a camper.

        My best friend lived on one for more than a decade. he got for like $3k and put like $9k of work into it. Had his first kid living on that boat because he couldn’t afford to live on land.

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          6 days ago

          That’s a whole different lifestyle tho, the orcas are not attacking the boat slips. Mad props to people who live on boats. In the 2008 recession it was a great housing option for the poor

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        You might be surprised at how cheap these things can go. They are a lot to maintain but may not be so much to buy.