We were based in Bristol with boat in Chichester and also got fed up with the driving. Took more radical approach of moving both boat and home to Portishead a couple of years ago. On the plus side it's a lot less crowded around here and the people are friendlier. On the down side it's almost impossible to get anyone to work on the boat.
There's less places to visit, but we've not found this a problem for day / overnight trips (Cardiff, Penarth, Bristol, Watchet, Swansea) or longer trips (Padstow, Lundy, Milford, Ireland), but trying to squeeze in more than one place in a weekend is difficult. So we've found that we use the boat a lot more, but generally for day trips and the odd night away in a marina.
A seemingly random word of warning - you may start questioning your choice of boat as liveaboard comforts that were previously essential become unnecessary maintance overheads when home is only a few minutes down the road. And when it's 3 months after you've asked someone to fix something and it's still not been done then you may wish the boat was small enough to trailer down to the south coast!
So our only regret with moving the boat is that we carried on upgrading things for a couple of years beforehand, knowing that we may be moving her to Portishead, which has made it harder to justify trading her in . . . So if you're just about to install some new widgets I'd wait until you get down here!
That all said - would we take her back to the South Coast? Absolutely not!
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