Living aboard full-time is an incredible adventure—but it comes with details many new cruisers don’t expect. From maintaining a legal address for banking, insurance, taxes, and voter registration to understanding the ins and outs of liveaboard insurance and financing, these practical considerations matter just as much as navigation and boat maintenance.
In this section, you’ll find helpful articles that break down what new cruisers need to know, along with Islands East Advisors’ recommended service partners who can help you tackle these challenges with confidence.
When you sell your home and move aboard full-time, losing a permanent street address can create major hurdles. Banks, credit card companies, insurance providers, and even state agencies require a physical address—not a PO box—to maintain accounts, licenses, and voter registration. Mail forwarding services solve this by giving you a legal address, scanning your mail, and forwarding it wherever you are, keeping your financial and legal life afloat.
SBI’s Cruisers Home Port has become the mail forwarding “flagship” of experienced Live-Aboard Cruisers worldwide, offering mail scanning/forwarding, help establishing Florida residency, registering your vessel or vehicle, registering to vote and obtain your Florida driver’s license.
Escapees RV Club members can purchase mail forwarding services that include establishing a legal domicile in TX, FL, or SD.
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