The first steps? Well, I bought a boat.
A lot happened between the last post and this. I went to see almost as many boats as I did apartments before buying the one I live in currently. I did manage to find one and bought it. A while before this I also called the chairperson of the board of the houseboaters association of Finland and a few other people about as basic things as choosing what material would I like my first (and/or my second) boat to be constructed of. Things were... interesting. Upon research I noticed if someone mentions ferrocement on the suomi24 discussion board which is like a place for... the common people things go wild, maybe because of this one person I talked to and with whom I might do a live interview with later. That'll be interesting. Yep, did research on those and many other things. I also watched a lot of youtube videos. There seem to be rather few by motor vessels but the sailing ones did give me a lot of insight. Special shoutouts to the youtube channels of the boats Delos and Uma, the lat