We lived on a boat and sailed around Europe for 18 months. Laura Keys My husband and I lived on a boat full-time for a year and a half. The lifestyle was our dream, but the reality was much more challenging than we expected. We felt like we had to stay alert all the time, and working in such a small space was difficult. Three years ago, my husband and I packed up our lives in the suburbs of London and moved aboard a 36-foot sailboat. We'd sailed before and had spent weeks on boats each year fo