Thanks for the input from across the pond gents.
I saw Holt using a broad brush on this mob and called him on it with the only example I know for sure. I yam about 3/4 nuts, know it and like it fine. I'm just plain tired of chasing things I never really wanted anyway. Most folks here live saner lives but I don't know for sure and neither does Holt. This forum might be the board of directors for Haliburton, we don't know.
Note, I insist yam is a verb on the water unless you can quote a higher nautical authority than Popeye. Ha, didn't think so.
Here, all saltwater and big rivers are federal property in general and they don't care. Legally, a 20 foot sloop and a container ship are pretty much treated the same, stay well off shore, out of traffic, don't leak anything, keep your paperwork up to date and you can park anywhere unless someone makes a fuss. That's the goal, simple living on unclaimed, sort of, public property. Another option is living in temporary structures on State or Federal lands, in the US, national forests or BLM land.
Sigh, but then there all are overlapping government entities and those who think they are. City, county, state, tribal - the local tribes invested in lawyers as opposed to winchesters, way better outcomes, eccological do gooders, some of the corporate fisheries clean water as a raw material sort and busy bodies of all types. Blech! Do gooders.
But, some personal property is needed. Even primitives living in gentle climates own something if only a knife or pointy stick. Property rights really are human rights. Oh boy, property rights debate! Well they say you can smother a fire with fuel if you do it fast enough, let's see!