Would you rather have a boat or a RV?

I already have an RV as you know. But I would love to have a house boat or a large cabin cruiser.

I have owned a sailboat before, and I could buy another boat, but I can always borrow one from family if I feel the need to go somewhere. I don't boat enough to justify owning one on my own, right now. The last one I owned was in California when I was on the East Coast and then Annapolis when I was on the West Coast, so I got tired of warehousing it. However, I still have the Kerouacian dream of traveling the United States by road, not flying and driving. My only problem is my tastes run to a Prevost Liberty conversion or similar (Marathon, Emerald), likely with a matching toy hauler/car trailer. I could also settle for a Newell (Ha! ha!), but there's something about the ride quality of a Prevost.

Since nobody in the family has one right now that I could borrow, I would pick an RV from this list, but I'm not to the point where I can set out on long-time travels, exploring destinations from the comforts of one's own RV.

A boat can be a lot of fun, but an RV is greater value for dollar and more practical. It can come later, with a towable trailer.
I'd rather be able to tour, and pick my coast to stand on, than be confined to the back bay on just a boat.

I would be happy with this

@Stereoguy That's a good plan. I'd have to demolish a house next door to do that, and doubt that I could get it past the planning department to build one on my property now.

When I rented one with my nieces and nephews for an "adventure" trip to the Grand Canyon, one of the nephews was afraid of breaking down in the middle of nowhere. I said "You need not worry about that, since this is a coach like Roller, where it fails to proceed under its own power. It does not break down." LOL He wanted to search for old mines and such in the wilderness as my lady friend had filled his head with her tales of ghost towns, desert phantoms, UFOs, etc. -- not to mention the natural resources and ecosystem of the desert. It was quite a change from the Northeast for them, but Prevost rental can pay for a used coach, even if you only drive it moderately.

An RV would be cool, you can drive someplace, park, have all your food there, and a place to sleep, and all your toys. Roads are kind of crowded though, and your dealing with a lot of people around and such.
A boat is kind of similar, it can hold all your stuff, but you do have to launch it. The nice thing is that its not nearly so crowded, there are no lines to follow (roads), and it is completely different than land based activities.
Get a sailboat, its the most expensive way of traveling for free.

I went out to my bus/rv tonight and fell back in love with her ❤

42-foot Fountain

I’ve had it all. I still keep a boat at my lake house but for most, renting what you need is the best way to go, in my opinion. If one doesn’t use it all the time, this is the best economically way, for many reasons.😊

I have a boat. I'll rent the RV as needed

a house boat sounds great

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probably the rv because you can go more places with it. the boat wound still be cool though.

Neither actually. Don’t have need for a big RV, and boats are a hole in the water that money goes into. Airplanes on the other hand??

Motorized Kayak

House boat

That is a great question now that I am near retirement. I guess it depends on where you live and what you want to continue seeing

I have a 17’ fishing boat on the lake at the farm . We have rented RVs before . They are fun but are maintenance intensive

what I'd really like is an airplane! But an RV would be next! 5th wheel, and a 1 ton to tug it with.

Depends on the boat. If it's a natural wooden boat with wooden oars then I would select that as it's more environmentally friendly :)

Right now I'm going with RV because I have no experience in driving a boat.

RV for now.

The RV seems more useful; especially if you don’t live near water...

Big old long heavy RV with a big v8 aaah yeah like the 70s rv

I’d rather use the money for hotels or boat rentals.

RV for sure

Boat.

boston whaler

Boat

An RV like yours.lol

Kayak

RV. Both are expensive but boat costs more to store and maintain.
Boat is more maintenance overall as well.
I personally would rather move from city to city and get more use from it.
I can't live on a boat. I get terribly seasick.

A boat.

[quote]What kind would you like to have? [/quote]

A widebody houseboat.