Comments on: Making Money Living on a Boat

By: big cheese

big cheese — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:30:10 +0000

Hi Zina-

Thanks. Since this article, we’ve chosen the seasonal gig route. We have been working at fairs and festivals selling mini-donuts with some success.

It can be done.

Regards,

By: Zina Tica

Zina Tica — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:37:24 +0000

I’m delighted! It’s refreshing to see someone very knowledgeable about what they do. Keep up the great work and I’ll return for more!Cheers!

By: big cheese

big cheese — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:00:39 +0000

We have a USB modem (on it now, actually) for our Mac. The big problem I see with the online jobs, you need to be very specifically computer saavy to land a gig like that. We’ve tried internet marketing and it’s a slow progression, especially as you learn how all the pieces go together.

We generate through donations, affiliate income, and google adsense income a very small amount of money currently. I’d say in the past 8 months we’ve made less than $200.

The good news, as traffic grows, so does income.

I’ve read Ferris’s book and it’s thought provoking. We’re still putting the pieces together. I might have to go back and re-read his book.

Any other ideas and comments are welcome. Thanks for commenting.

By: big cheese

big cheese — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:55:09 +0000

It’s good to hear that people can make it in the concession business.

We’re still working on ideas. One idea was a trailer with 5+ fat tuesday slushee machines making fruity slushees? Another was on the spot fresh fried potato and/or sweet potato chips.

For us, the big concern is that I have to man the booth myself while the kids are toddlers. Once they get bigger I have a built in workforce

By: Damon B

Damon B — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:12:22 +0000

My mother has friends who work the festival circuit selling the equivalent of a blooming onion. They work a few months out of the year and make enough to live on the rest of the year.

You’d have to come up with something new. Something the festival-goers of the USA have never seen. Maybe you can import some recipes from San Carlos? Or maybe you can team up with a cigar roller and make hand rolled cigars?

By: Drew Smith

Drew Smith — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:57:40 +0000

I think you’re passing over an obvious choice – working online! The technology has finally arrived; if your job is such that you can work “from home”, you can work just fine from your boat. I’m working part-time as a systems administrator for a media company, basically taking care of computers in a colocation facility that I’ve never seen, and probably never will. Most major cell carriers now have a USB stick modem that works anywhere that you can get cell service. I am currently writing this from my sailboat (and home) as I cruise past Prevost Island in British Columbia.

There’s a lot of good info about forcing your career into a “work from home” situation in Tim Ferriss’ book ‘The Four Hour Workweek’ – I would *really* recommend you pick up a copy and read it through, it’s pretty much exactly written about what you and I are trying to achieve.