This website, like the Luvs Boat itself, is strictly 18+.
People who grow up with an everlasting interest in diapers - or any kink lifestyle, really - usually find this typically-taboo part of themselves well before they’ve reached the age of 18. Nobody understand that more than I do; my survey of the ABDL community revealed as much, and I’ve taught classes on this very subject at ABDL conventions.
It is for that very reason, though, that the ABDL community maintains such an unyielding barrier between those of us who have reached the age of majority, and those still under the age of 18.
My advocacy for 18+ within our community has lasted longer than anyone currently under the age of 18 has been alive.
In the early days it lead to my being blackballed by local ABDL community leaders, leaving me out of a lot of what our community had going on.
In the years since, I’ve proudly watched as the vast majority of our community got on board.
If you are here and are under the age of 18, I ask that you please navigate away from this page.
Our community can’t wait to welcome you, and we will still be here when you are old enough to join us as an adult.
Until then… please be safe.
And… be gone.
If you’re here from the official Luvs Boat video on YouTube, welcome! That video just hit its 100,000th view! I’ve heard from so many people online, and even met people at CAPCON, who found that video and decided to make a trip to the #LuvsBoat an ABDL ‘bucket list’ item! I love hearing that. If you haven’t seen the video yet, click here.
With more than 60 square miles of surface area on the lake, there’s more than enough room to motor out to a secluded spot far away from the rest of the world and spend the day feeling just as ’little’ as we care to be…
THE 2024 BOATING SEASON HAS ENDED!
This was my ninth season captaining the Luvs Boat. Since we launched, we’ve had 68 ABDL guests visit our floating oasis of littlespace. Follow me on Twitter for the latest on next year!
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THIS ‘CHANGES’ EVERYTHING!
For me, owning the Luvs Boat has been a (life) changing experience!
If you’re a regular reader of my blog you probably know I'm in love with the water.
I spent childhood summers holed up in a rustic little boathouse my grandfather built that would later become, once I was old enough to drive, the first place I'd find the freedom to spend entire days and nights in diapers, fully indulging in 'littlespace'.
Over time my love for that little cottage, and the lake that it had been built on, turned into a love of everything water.
After college I would buy my first boat. A 26' sailboat, it became a way for me to be even more connected with the water - I'd now get to go to sleep right on the water, and wake up on it, as well. And, of course, try my hand at sailing, as well.
That boat also played to my ABDL side, as it became something of a floating cradle: I'd pad up down below, with my bottle full of warm milk, and slowly drift off to sleep, rocked from side to side by the waves.
Needless to say, I loved that boat.
I would later move to Orlando, where I'd spend nearly a decade disconnected from the water, with the exception of a few weeks spent at the cottage and/or on the boat each year during summer vacations in New York.
A few years ago I finally returned to New York to live - and decided to fulfill a lifelong dream and buy an even bigger boat to live on.
I planned to spend the spring, summer, and fall aboard, with winters spent on land. I'd decided that it was high time for a different lifestyle - one more connected to the water.
I felt, too, that this move marked the chance to make some local ABDL friends - and, hopefully, to invite a few new friends to share this lifestyle with me.
Fast foward nine years. To date, the 'Luvs Boat' has hosted nearly seventy members of the ABDL community.
I've made new friends who live locally to me, and reconnected with old friends from far away.
I've hosted get-togethers for as many as seven ABDLs at once - and had some of the most amazing one-on-one experiences I'll ever have, as well.
I’ve had visitors from states across the US, as well as Canada and Mexico.
That's dozens of ABDLs, all brought together by our love for this little disposable undergarment, and our need to find a mostly-private space we can be ourselves.
Even if that space, in this case, just happens to be on a boat...
MY STORY…
If you know my story, you know that I was an ABDL blogger for about eight years before I began captaining the Luvs Boat. Over the years my blog gained a steady readership, becoming a place members of our community could come to read real-life experiences from me and others. I invited guest entry submissions, created the Q&A Series, hosted several photo and essay contests, and even did a community-wide survey.
At one point we celebrated my blog’s millionth pageview. One million views?! Yes!
Yet all that time I was living in a community where I was - for lack of a better term - blackballed.
It seems that several of the local community ‘leaders’ had taken a strong dislike to me.
They had a problem with an ABDL who they had only briefly spoken to, and had never even met.
Because of that, I’d meet zero local ABDLs in the community that I lived in before I moved.
Contrast that number - zero - with the nearly 70 visitors I’ve had - many of them local to me - since!
I share my story with many visitors to the boat, but tend to share less so online, because it’s ugly.
I hesitate to share because I know that this website will be the first exposure to our community that some ABDLs will have.
Some come here from my YouTube video. They’re drawn in by happy scenes of so many littles having an amazing time out on the water. Simply put, I don’t hesitate to share truths of our community that might ruin that for anyone.
I know, too, that some members of our community have shared the WhyABDL.org/Abysitter.com link with people not in our community: with their wives and partners, or their friends’ friends, or even college roommates - those are just among the many I’ve been told about over the years. (It seems when someone is trying to normalize a fringe lifestyle like ours, a website like this one may be the go-to for them). I don’t want the ‘vanillas’ who are viewing this site for a glimpse into our world to get the wrong idea about who most of us are based on the actions of a small number of us, mostly from one city, years ago.
And I know, also, that vanillas sometimes find this page - through us, or even on their own - and are often fascinated by what we’ve got going on here. I’ve heard from reporters representing national media outlets asking to do stories on the Luvs Boat - I regretfully declined for security/safety reasons - and I’ve gotten emails from a boat brokers wondering if it might not be time for us to upgrade to a newer, bigger boat.
Knowing all of this, I hesitate to share a story that paints the community that I love, and am so very fucking proud of, in a negative light.
Still, my story is such an important part of the story of the Luvs Boat.
It’s the reason I moved to upstate New York, bought this boat, and opened it to ABDLs near and far.
The little floating community of littles that’s been built here would not have become what it has become had I not experienced the worst of what “ABDL community” is supposed to be so many years before.
If you are a member of our community and would like to know more about my story, and how my story reflects on everything we’re doing on the Luvs Boat, you may click here.
#BOATLIFE
When I tell people that I live on a boat, I think they sometimes picture a motorboat with a little cuddy cabin.
That's not this boat. This boat is big AF.
The Luvs Boat is a 1970s-era ‘flush deck motoryacht’ - 36’ long with a 13’ beam.
It's sort of like a house that floats. Definitely bigger inside than it looks...
The boat has a lot of the same things your home might have.
It has two bedrooms. (On the boat, we call them staterooms).
It has two heads - landlubber speak for bathrooms. Needless to say, they don’t get a lot of use.
One even has a separate shower - although I use that for diaper storage.
The boat has a full kitchen - we call that a ‘galley’.
Full disclosure: we go out to eat as often as we eat in - who doesn’t love a good diner breakfast?
The galley even has a Keurig. Coffee with a waterfront view every morning? Yes, please. That’s our favorite way to spend crisp fall mornings.
A few years ago I added a grill to the aft deck. While we don’t get to go out onto the lake as often as I’d like, we’ve had a few unforgettable meals grilled out there. Nothing beats cheeseburgers and bratwursts grilled out on the water.
Lastly, there's a full bar... for when actual 'grownups' come aboard. (21+)
Come munch on some snackies, let me fix you a dwink, and lounge in Luvs with me... on the #LuvsBoat.
THE ‘NURSERY’
Layouts on boats are actually configured to match what's underneath them.
The master stateroom in my boat has two twin beds in the aft cabin. That’s because two 80 gallon fuel tanks are placed in the stern of the boat, one on each side. The berths are built on top of those, to maximize space.
If the boat builders had placed the fuel tanks in the center, the bed would be a king size in the middle of the room. That's more desirable for most boat buyers, I think, and it’s actually how many of these boats were designed. The year the 'Luvs Boat' was built, though, the configuration they went with was tanks on the sides, resulting in two twin beds.
Which actually works out well for us...
When my first-ever local ABDL friend visited the boat that first year, there was nothing ‘little’ about it. To be frank, I wasn’t even sure I’d be able to get an ABDL to come visit, much less spend time padded on a boat. And he was definitely hesitant. But when he stepped aboard he confessed that he thought it was going to be a little boat, and was surprised by its size. He also pointed out at the twin bed on the port side of the boat was already enclosed on three sides.
“That’s practically a crib, already,” he told me.
That comment sparked the idea for this room that has provided so much joy for so many littles in the years since.
've set up one of the beds as a 'crib' of sorts - it’s more of a toddler bed, really, complete with a mesh crib bumper, a toddler safety rail, a crib mobile, and lots of little plush friends from the deep blue sea.
This setup is perfect for nights I have little visitors at the boat...
And, for me.
Picture me in my bed, sleeping opposite a ‘little’, snug in their 'crib'...
(That would be kind of hard to accomplish with a queen-sized or king-sized bed).
I've even added a little machine that plays lullaby's and projects a soothing light show onto the ceiling, to sooth littles on those dark and storm nights.
If this room doesn't have the look and feel of a real nursery, I don't know what does.
It’s been described as “magical” more than once…
Some photos…
We try to make nearly everything about this space fit the vibe. That starts with a couple of dozen nautical plushy friends, who often make their way to other rooms of the boat but always find their way back to the nursery.
We’ve got octopuses - or is that octopi? - and whales and sharks and lobsters and fish and crabs and jellyfish and stingrays and dolphins and - well, let’s just say it’s virtually an aquarium. Except that it’s dry.
Usually.
On the shelf we have a selection of vintage Pampers products and advertising - I’m a sucker for nostalgia. There’s also a small library of books and resources for ABDLs, for those who prefer to curl up with a good book.
Littles have told me that they feel like they get ‘lost’ in the headspace here.
That, my little padded friends, is the goal…
THE ‘STASH’
Diapers, of course, are a big part of what we do.
Anyone who's spent any time at all on a boat knows space is at a premium. Even on a liveaboard-size boat like mine, bags of disposable diapers are tough to store, let alone hide.
‘Hanging lockers - aka boat closets - exist on most boats, including mine, but there aren't very many, and they're typically only good for... hanging stuff.
You can't really hang diapers, right?
Or... can you?
For the first season, my solution to the diaper dilemma was keeping bags of diapers stowed away in the trunk of my car, carrying a few down the dock every couple of days where I'd stack them into hanging lockers, hoping they didn't tumble out every time I opened a door.
Blah.
Any self-respecting ABDL knows that we thrive on having a nice collection of ABDL diapers on display - the 'stash', if you will. Keeping them in the trunk of my car, or piled up in a closet, didn't feel quite right.
After a ton of online searching, I finally found a solution, and bought some hanging closet storage racks. They’re perfect for what I need! These fit the hanging locker in the master stateroom three across, and they can swivel around to hide the contents. Originally I stuffed them with Peekabu’s and powder and all sorts of little things, and just turned them around so visitors poking through on a vanilla tour of the boat saw only a cloth hanging contraption...
Eventually I just added a lock to the hanging locker doors.
I absolutely love the look on the little’s face when I open these doors and they see all the choices we’ve got to offer on display in this little locker of magic…
D I A P E R S D O N A T E D B Y :
Thank you to Kiddo Diapers US for helping keep the stash stocked up!
LITTLESWEAR TO SHARE?!
Diapers, of course, aren’t all we wear.
Over the years I’ve also amassed a collection of littleswear that littles have termed the loaner bin, the borrow bucket, and the like.
It’s a big (but never quite big enough) storage container that contains all kinds of adorable gear in all different sizes - S to 4X - mostly donated by visitors to the boat - and, occasionally, a non-visitor.
It has onesies and rompers and footed pajamas. It’s got ABU special-edition t’s and PeekAbu hats and Northshore t’s and more. There’s a Little Keeper Sleeper, a couple of bibs, and a ton of pacifier clips. Cloth diapers, plastic pants, and more - you get the idea.
These are intended for use by those who don’t have much of a wardrobe of their own to bring with them. The Luvs Boat has been the first place a number of ABDLs met another ABDL - me - and it’s been the place even more had their first ABDL ‘event’. As you can imagine, some of our visitors don’t have much in the way of little ‘gear’ yet. Others may be visiting from other states or countries, and are just traveling light. This collection of clothing provides the ageplay accessorizing needed to make a visit more of an authentic littlespace experience.
One of my proudest moments on the boat was when a diaperfur who’d first visited the boat as a college freshman, and who’d been so excited to try his first onesie here, brought a few onesies from his own now-growing collection to donate to the borrow bucket so other ABDLs could enjoy them like he had. Loved that! (The onesie he’d worn that first day had been the first onesie of another ABDL who’d decided to donate it the year before… and it has since been the ‘first’ onesie for at least two other ABDLs. Recycling at its best!)
Want to make a donation to the loaner bin? Just email me! Or check out the Amazon Wishlist!
(We’d love booties, mitts, locking plastic pants, and similar!)
ABDL Companies - Sponsor the Luvs Boat!
Calling any ABDL companies interested in supplying diapers, onesies, or other merch!
Want to make a donation for our 2025 adventures and beyond?
Help stock the ‘borrow bin’ or the stash!
Your support is appreciated, both by me and our visitors!
Email me: abysitter@gmail.com!
PLAYTIME FUN!
When it comes to playtime, things are all wet on the Luvs Boat, as well...
We've got nautical books and nautical puzzles and nautical coloring books with crayons, markers, colored pencils, and more!
You can be artistic and oceanic on the boat!
We've also got boat legos, and sea creature activities, and all kinds of toys (most courtesy of Aboimikey - thanks, Mikey!) that keep the fun going…
A few pictures from recent #SundayFunday visits on the boat. There’s nothing like a #LittlesLockin on the waves to bring out the little squirt in all of us!
Got a water-related toy you'd like to bring (or send) to the boat? Contact me! Email abysitter@gmail.com.
CREATURES OF THE DEEP…
Spending time on the ‘Luvs Boat’ is like being in a virtual aquarium.
We’ve got three octopi, a fever of rays, consortiums of crabs, and schools of fish,
We have a shiver of sharks, a battery of barracuda, and a herd of seahorses.
Some of the creatures of the deep came from the Amazon (.com, hehe)…
Others were left behind by visitors to the boat, donated for the enjoyment of future visitors. I love that! (I love the feeling of watching a little clutching Jersey the Shark, seeing the joy in their face while I’m remembering how much fun I had with the group who brought Jersey the year before).
Check out the photos below for just some of our creatures from the deep…
Jules Verne, eat your heart out…
THE ‘CUDDLE CABIN’
For those who want to sleep side-by-side - as well as for any snoofing or scrumping that might happen on the boat - we have the second bedroom, which we’ve long-ago nicknamed the ‘cuddle cabin’.
The forward cabin, as it would be known on any other boat, is a small space with enough room to stand or climb into the bed.
The bed is a full berth that stretches from one side of the boat to the other, and gets narrower at the bow. It’s comprised of boat cushions - one on each side, and a ‘filler’ cushion in the middle, that separates two twin-sized beds and, when added, turns it into a bed that three can share comfortably.
For the first few years this room was furnished with the kitschy nautical decor it came with - pretty cliche on a boat, if you ask me. Last year I changed everything over to a primary colors motif. Littles who have spent the night here since have described it as having a ‘middles’ vibe…
Over the years the ‘cuddle cabin’ has been the spot where couples come to spend the night together.
And, where singles (and sometimes triples and quadruples) have come and coupled up.
When I get close enough with someone that snoofing is a possibility - I never initiate, but occasionally indulge - it happens there.
And I’m sure things even beyond snoofing have probably happened with some of my visitors.
I don’t ask questions.
As we say, “what happens in the cuddle cabin stays in the cuddle cabin.”
And I’ll add…
“But it has to happen in the cuddle cabin.”
There are a few rules surrounding consent and quietness - you can read those in the Luvs Boat rules doc.
But, otherwise, nearly anything goes…
Mostly, though, it is used for sleeping.
Sometimes, for cuddling.
We’ve squeezed six in for a movie night. And we’ve done some stargazing through the forward hatch from there, as well.
I’ve thought of downsizing this boat to something a little more manageable for just me.
But being able to accommodate 6-8 people - if some are willing to cuddle - is a nice draw.
As you can see, often, they are…
ON FLAKES AND SETTING UP EVENTS
The story of how Luvs Boat weekends began is a frustrating one.
In the summer and fall of 2017 I did not have both weekend days off. In order to set up any weekend event, I had to take off a Saturday, which used some of the precious little vacation time the company I was working for provided.
But, I was sure a padded weekend on the boat would be worth whatever sacrifices I needed to make, so I took a whole bunch of Saturdays off (I had Sundays and Mondays off already) and sent out the invitations spammer-style across the various ABDL platforms.
Twitter and Instagram are awash with photos and videos from the ‘Luvs Boat’ now, but when it was new I didn’t really have many pictures to share. Convincing people to come hang out in diapers on a boat wasn’t an easy task. For a little while I wasn’t sure if I’d get anyone to come at all.
But over time, a number of locals, and some ABDLs from across the upstate New York region, decided that they were interested. They’d respond to my messages, or post something in a forum, and I was sure they’d be coming.
For my first weekend event I had a solid four invitees supposedly planning to attend. Oh boy! I was excited. I stocked the refrigerator and the cooler, set out some diapers, and sat up on the deck, eagerly watching the marina parking lot.
In the end, zero ABDL’s would show up - and I’d be left with a used-up vacation day, and one of the most beautiful weekends of the summer so far wasted.
“Looks like your friends aren’t going to make it,” my neighbor said to me at one point, probably wondering what kind of loser spends the weekend on a boat without a single friend wanting to come by to enjoy it.
Of course, I had plenty of vanilla friends clamoring to come out… but ABDLs and vanillas don’t mix, and I was sure I had some ABDLs on the way, so I’d told the vanillas “not this weekend”…
…in the end, I’d wished I’d skipped the ABDL invitees for some vanillas.
Or just gone to work, and saved one of my vacation days…
The second weekend I set aside for ABDLs would be as successful as the first: zero people would show up, again.
This time it would sting a little less… but it still sucked.
A second vacation day wasted.
A second beautiful weekend spent by myself on the boat.
I was starting to think setting up events wasn’t going to be worth it.
The third weekend was almost a bust as well - but then, suddenly, two new friends would show up on Sunday night.
They’d come bearing gifts of wine - “a boatwarming gift” - and we’d spend a few hours just sitting on the bow watching the sunset and talking about the community. It felt amazing.
More importantly, they pledged to come to the next one. And to bring friends.
With several now committed, and several others suggesting they might come as well, I decided to give it one more try.
The next event would be full, with seven of us on the boat.
Crazy, right?
I was excited - my perseverance had paid off!
I’d spent years living just miles from ABDL events I’d been excluded from, and here I was, more than a decade into this community, at my first one! I mean, I had to host it, but still… if you’ve never been around seven ABDLs at once, it feels amazing!!
Still, the whole ordeal made me understand why there are so few events in our community in the first place.
I’d talked to people who’d experienced what I had before, including my friend, Carl, who had set up an entire house party, spending a lot of money on food and decorations only to find not a single person who’d RSVP’d would come through.
It’s so frustrating.
If you are fortunate enough to be invited to an ABDL event, do what you need to do to show up if you say you’re going to. I know it’s scary if you’ve never been to one… but face your fears, or don’t RSVP to begin with.
Our community has so much flake, and it sucks so much.
Fast foward to 2024. These days I get far more inquiries about visiting the boat than I could ever hope to accommodate, and we’ve had visitors from as far away as Canada and Mexico.
The idea of throwing a boat bash no-show almost seems silly now.
Sometimes I feel guilty because I can’t fit in everyone who’d like to come on any given weekend. (There’s only so much room on a boat).
But I still remember exactly how I felt, sitting on the boat those first few weekends, just hoping each car that pulled up to the dock was carrying a new friend.
And how disappointed I was, at the end of the day, when none of them had.
Please. Don’t. Flake.
LUVS BOAT WEEKENDS
In the early years of the Luvs Boat, I tried to do one “ABDL boat weekend” a month.
Between work, other commitments, vanilla friends, and family, that was all the time I could really afford.
Remember that, when I first moved back to New York and bought the boat, I had zero local ABDL friends.
In fact, in the nine years I’d lived in my former city, I’d had zero local ABDL friends, as well.
But as these padded weekends took off, and my circle of community friends continued to expand, I realized that one weekend a month just wasn’t enough. I started trying to invite ABDL friends every other weekend, alternating those weekends with invitations to my vanilla friends.
Eventually, I just went all in on ABDL. Weekends for local friends would be interspersed with invitations to ABDLs from afar, and every once in a while something vanilla would enter the schedule. I was enjoying hosting community events so much, bringing people together from all across upstate New York and beyond.
My ABDL friends loved coming to the boat in any kind of weather - contrast that to vanillas who canceled at the first sign of a rain cloud in the sky.
My ABDL friends were perfectly content to remain in the marina on rough-water days - contrast that to vanillas who complained about not being out on the lake the entire time.
I could go on and on. In a nutshell: occasional ABDL boat weekends turned into a series of ABDL boat weekends and - more recently - what I’d describe as an ABDL boat where my life happened, friends visited on weekends, and vanillas occasionally stopped by.
That, my friends, is the way that I like it…
An earlier version of this website had boat weekends listed in order, from the first in 2017 to the most recent.
That was easy when it was one weekend a month.
Now there are just too many to organize it that way.
Instead I’ve redesigned this site to put photos of so many of the weekends side by side on each section of the page.
After a while there are so many photos that it gets hard to keep them organized.
But every single weekend was special to me.
And, from the feedback I’ve gotten, I know that being included in these weekends was special to many of those who were invited.
I’ve been told that they were “life-changing” by more than one ABDL. And I believe it.
Because they were life-changing for me.
Some were truly special. I can’t wait to tell the stories. They include - but are by no means limited to - those I’ve included in short snippets below. (Adding more as we go…)
Meeting my first-ever ABDL boat visitor, RyRy. He first came as a freshman at an area college, then took a few years off - “I was purging hard,” he admits now. Our friendship continued throughout that absence, and he’d eventually return to the community, and become a regular on the boat. He also visits me year-round and has become one of my closest friends.
The first boat event that I’d call a success, where seven of us gathered at one time. It ended in calamity - that’s a story I can only share on the boat - but 99% of the weekend was amazing, and it’s the first time I ever experienced feeling included in the ABDL community. (Even if it’s a community I created out of thin air).
A subsequent boat weekend I’d call a failure - a friendship ended over a series of misunderstandings. But, that same weekend I found myself smack-dab in the middle of my first true big/little relationship - situationship? - and the beginnings of what would be one of the most amazing experiences of my ABDL life…
Meeting Lakhota and his partner, people who would become two of my closest friends. Lakhota had been an ‘internet famous’ ABDL when I first joined the community years before, so I was fanboying out a bit; he’d been enjoying my blog for years, and was doing the same. The moment we both realized we were absolutely thrilled to be in each other’s company was pretty dope.
A ‘best friends boat ride’ with Lakhota and Rob. The two were working together at a campground less than 20 minutes from the boat, and for two years I had local friends just a short car ride away - I loved that, and miss it so much! Rob had the idea of a photo shoot on the water, and the three of us took the boat out and spent the better part of the day floating around on what I’ll always remember as one of the most beautiful days I’ve experienced on the lake. Some of the photos and GIFs here are from that boat ride.
The weekend that LittleBroTyTy drove from Iowa to New York, non-stop, to spend time with me on the boat. He must have driven for 16 hours, and he was so tired when he arrived that he wasn’t making sense - we literally held on to him to make sure he made it down the dock and on to the boat. Only a true friend would drive that far just to spend time with you. (He’s since visited three other times, driving once - with an overnight in Chicago - and flying the rest of the times).
The biggest event we’ve had so far, which actually took place at the cottage: me, Tyson, Mikey, Tommy, Matt, David, and Adam spending an amazing padded weekend grilling, chilling, and stargazing on the deck and on the dock. (It’s harder to do that now, with summer rentals and ring cams, but that year we had this side of the lake all to ourselves, and it was a blast). This was the day that one of the boys told me that I was the ‘community organizer’ for upstate New York - I somehow hadn’t seen myself as that until he said it, and it was a proud moment for me.
Meeting two guys whose lives would be changed, in different ways, by their inclusion in our little community. I met them both on the same day. One lived far away but would begin creating his own little community based on the confidence he got from being invited to visit ours; the other would become one of my best friends and something of a ‘first mate’ on the boat, enabling many of our boat rides which otherwise wouldn’t have occurred without his dock handling skills.
My cancer diagnosis in the spring of 2020, which hit about the same time as the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing resulted in a much smaller circle that year, but it included a few of those mentioned above, who kept coming to visit me on the boat - albeit six feet apart - and who were named as part of the ‘designated retrieval team’ during my surgery, in case I didn’t make it; their job was to come to the boat and remove all traces of ABDL if they got bad news after my surgery. (Obviously, I’m still here…)
A boat ride we called the ‘last boat ride’ - because it occurred just two days before I went in for surgery, and I was feeling anxious and truly believed it might be my last boat ride. I told three of my ABDL friends that I wanted to take the boat out one more time, and they all took the day off from work and joined me. It was an epic day out on the water - and it turned into an epic night, since an engine refused to re-start and we wound up floating around the lake for dinner and a sunset photoshoot, and then enjoying a fireworks show, even, before motoring in slowly around 1 a.m. - with the engine re-starting as we neared the dock. I’ll never forget that night, and the fact that it only happened because of my connections in this community underscores how important this boat has become to me.
A visit from my ‘ABDL little bwo’, ABenjaminButton, during the later part of COVID in 2021. We’d take a padded road trip together - an amazing experience I’ll treasure forever - followed by a week on the boat. Ben would roll up his sleeves and get to work ripping out the carpet and helping me refresh the boat’s interior. Ben would go on to get his captain’s license, and currently works on a boat in Europe. #superproudbigbro
Visits from David from Mexico and his partner, Jason. David had entered my photo contest, and he’d made a sign for my blog, before I finally met him at CAPCON. His annual boat visits have become amongst my favorite weeks of the summer, and he’s met many of my area ABDL friends, as well.
Visits from LittlePuppyJacey and a group I took to calling “the New Jersey boys”… TeaJayBoy, CyGuy, and CrinkleKitty. They came for a weekend that Jacey planned down to the last detail, and it was such a stress-free weekend for me - I wish they could all be like that. The time out on the water was amazing, and the pictures are adorable… and seeing Jacey continue to ‘community build’ with outings in the tri-state area, and his nods to the first-ever weekend planned on the Luvs Boat, feels pretty good, too.
A visit from Dumpling, hailing from Canada. Every time Dumpling comes he brings gifts from Canada, including candies, coffee, and other things we don’t have here. It feels like I gained a friend and some international culture at the same time!
That time Dumpling and I went to a nearby city to ‘vet’ a college student who reached out to me about coming to the boat. Pup Pickles had researched ABDL events, and was trying to decide between CAPCON, Indy Dreamworld, and the Luvs Boat, when he realized that the Luvs Boat was just an hour from where he went to school. He told me later that he was trying so hard to make a good impression when we met him for pizza, because he didn’t want to “blow the chance to come to such a great event for the community!” It was adorable. I had to explain that it was really just an old boat that I lived on… the website might make it look a little more amazing than it really was… but he still wanted to come, and he joined us a few weeks later and loved every second of it.
MORE TO COME… and stories to follow as I write them. Until then, enjoy the photos below…
OUT ON THE WATER…
I like to say that, with more than 60 square miles of water out on the lake, we can motor out to a quiet spot, free from prying eyes - for the most part - and be just as little as we want to be.
First, though, we have to get out there…
The Luvs Boat is what’s considered a ‘late classic’ - it’s old.
With old engines. And parts that, nearly 50 years later, can be hard to come by.
My starboard engine is a temperamental little bitch. It likes to start up flawlessly - vroooom! - and run perfectly almost every time.
And once you shut her down for a day out on the water, she’ll fire right back up.
But that’s where the fun sometimes ends.
Putting her into gear can lead to a sputter, followed by a stall.
And the ‘re-start process’ - basically me riding around on the port engine attempting to re-start the problematic one every few minutes until she decides to cooperate - well, that can take a while.
Sometimes she resumes normal operation on the first or second try.
Other times it can be a few hours.
I have some stories about this I’ll be sharing down below. [Coming soon!] They involve almost finding a new dock, a surprise fireworks show, and lots of peekage.
For now, all you need to know is that the Luvs Boat only goes out when conditions are perfect.
Calm water.
No current.
No waves, or at least whitecaps.
No wind.
And it helps to have crew with some docking experience. That’s way harder to come by than you would think - most people, I’ve found, have never had to help with the process of getting a boat like this back into its slip.
So most days, we - and, truthfully, many other boats of her size - remain at the dock.
I’ve had regular visitors who have yet to come on a ‘perfect day’, who have yet to get out onto the water.
But every once in a while we do get to go out.
And those days are amazing.
What follows are some photos from the days we’ve been lucky enough to enjoy out on the water…
When most people who inquire about visiting think about coming to the Luvs Boat, I feel like they’re envisioning the photos above: a day padded up floating around out on the water.
Not being able to promise that has lead me to try to dissuade people from coming from longer distances.
I’ve had ABDLs from all over the world contact me in the hopes of being a guest on the boat. Littles from Amsterdam and Sweden, a middle from France, a babyfur from South America, and a DL from Japan - and that’s just the ones outside of the US and Canada…
Most - just about all, really - tell me that they don’t even care if we leave the dock. And I believe them.
But knowing that there’s a chance that we might not - and that bad weather can even make conditions at the dock rough, sometimes - makes me far less likely to encourage a visitor from lands far away than one who lives right up the street.
I had visitors from New York City and New Jersey who drove 5-6 hours in 2023. I’d been watching the forecast for the weekend and knew that the best chance of a guaranteed boat ride would be right as they arrived, so I had the boat ready to go out - let’s get out there while the getting-out-there is good! Instead the told me that they wanted to take me to dinner, and asked if we could go out the next day instead. “We don’t even need to go out,” one told me; “we came to spend time with you, a boat ride would just be a bonus.” I agreed, and as luck would have it were were able to spend the next day out on the water. Still, I feel like they had as much fun at dinner, and during our game night down below the following day. I absolutely fucking love those kinds of guests…
Still, whether you’ve driven five hours, or flown here, if I can take you for a boat ride, I want to take you for a boat ride.
I just can’t ever promise one.
Sorry.
And please, keep that in mind before you come…
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Coming soon: the thoughts of some of our visitors to the Luvs Boat…
ADVENTURES ON LAND!
‘Boat weekends’ are often just that - weekends spent exclusively on the boat.
But the boat is situated in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, one of the most beautiful regions in the world. Sometimes visitors want to do a little… exploring. (Or is that little exploring?)
Either way, on days the lake is too rough to take the boat out, you’ll sometimes find us piling into the car for a road trip through the Finger Lakes.
Whether that means zipping over to the cottage and spending the day lounging on the dock, or going on a tour of waterfalls - we have some of the highest around - we always try to have a good time.
Food options here are limited, but there are a few favorite places: a 1950-s drive-in restaurant, a diner that’s even older, and a fried chicken farm stand with outdoor seating. There’s also a ton of ice cream options in the summer, including a place that was voted #1 in the nation. We fit that into the rotation quite a bit.
Most of our trips are padded but vanilla - although you can see from the photos below we try to dress as ‘little’ as we can get away with, and we drop our pants whenever we get the chance. (We’re careful to blend in with our surroundings and keep the diapers out of the public eye, of course. But where we can find a little isolation and solitude, almost anything goes).
At some point in the future I’ll tell the stories from some of the pics below, and some ‘field trips’ that don’t appear in the photo albums.
In the meantime, enjoy…
VISITORS GALORE!
Over nine years of boating, the Luvs Boat has seen more than 60 visitors.
Some have been one-time, ‘bucket list’ visitors from outside of the area. Others have become ‘regulars’ - almost like a second, ‘chosen’ family for me.
I’ll share some of their stories here in the future.
For now, what you’ll find below are photos from the LuvsBoat.com archives, placed on this website as I put the stories that go with them together.
Come back for more… coming soon.
Local Friends…
After nine years of zero local friends in my former city, my first Luvs Boat get-together was, in a word, overwhelming. STORY COMING SOON…
“Little Z”…
The story of my first little - and how his however-brief entrance into my life came at the perfect time. STORY COMING SOON…
“Tyson”…
Tyson has been my CAPCON roommate eight events in a row, and has visited the boat a number of times, as well. I’ll share the story of our friendship here… STORY COMING SOON…
Out-of-State Visitors…
We’ve had visitors from Connecticut, New Jersey, the DC area, Florida, Iowa, and Texas. I’ll share some of their stories here… STORY COMING SOON…
Out-of-Country Visitors…
We’ve had visitors from Mexico, Canada, and even overseas. I’ll share the stories of David, Dumpling, and others soon.
