Appendix A

INITIAL QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Age of Informant

2. Size of Liveaboard Vessel

3. Is this vessel a sailboat? A powerboat?

4. Size/Make/Year of vessel

5. Construction: wood, steel, aluminum, fiberglass, ferro-cement

6. Which amenities do you have on board?

7. Do you have a storage locker? Size?

8. Do you anticipate living ashore in the future? Why?

9. Were either of your parents involved in boating?

10. When did you learn to sail?

11. Who taught you sailing and navigation skills?

12. How long have you lived in the Bay Area? More, or less, than 5 years?

13. How long have you lived in California? More, or less, than 5 years?

14. Where were you born?

15. Where did you grow up?

16. Did you own a home before moving aboard?

17. How long have you lived aboard?

18. How many people live aboard your vessel?

19. Who lives aboard your vessel?

20. Relationship of Boatmate(s)

21. What other boats have you owned?

22. Did you name your vessel? If yes, what is it named for and why?

23. Do you feel it necessary to keep a "low profile"? Why?

24. Do you consider living-aboard (more expensive / as expensive as / or less expensive ) than living ashore?

27. What percentage of your monthly income is earmarked for boat-home related expenses?

28. Are you employed in a boating related industry/business?

29. What is your occupation?

30.What is your mate's occupation?

31. Do you have ambitions to cruise?

32. Why? Or why not?

33. If yes, when: within one year; in 2-3 years; in 4-5 years; more than 5 years?

34.What is your favorite pastime/hobby?

35. What is your favorite sailing magazine?

36. What other publications do you subscribe to?

37. How does living aboard affect your lifestyle?

38. Why do you liveaboard?

39. How do you deal with living in tight quarters?

40. What chores are there around the boat and who does them?

41. What are the advantages of living aboard?

42.What are the disadvantages of living aboard?

43. Any unique problems? For example, establishing residency for credit, education, voter registration, mail delivery, newspaper delivery, employers. How have you dealt with them?

44. Are you registered to vote?

45. Do you know what BCDC is?

46. What do you think of BCDC's contribution to Bay conservation?

47. (A) Is there a "liveaboard problem"? (B) Should the number of liveaboard be regulated or unregulated? (C) Why? If regulated, how and why?

48. Any additional comments?