liveaboard

Of a boat: designed or modified to allow people to live on board.

Of a person: living on board a boat.

A person who lives on a boat.

“We′re going to move aboard, sail around the world and do some writing,” the letter goes. “How are our chances?” It′s a common question from readers who know that my husband and I support our liveaboard life through writing and photography.

This marina is the closest to the ocean and has a surprisingly liberal liveaboard policy (10 percent of the total population; children, pets, okay).

A boat designed or modified to allow people to live on board, compared to similar boats which do not have this feature.

Liveaboards come in all kinds of shapes and sizes: monohulls, catamarans, and trimarans, from less than 30 feet to over 100. A liveaboard serves as hotel, restaurant, and dive shop all in one — and sometimes even as a photoprocessing lab, too.