When I was a teenager, (many moons ago) my parents had a 30 ft cabin cruiser, (power boat) with full kitchen, shower, bathrooms, fridge, etc, that slept 6 kinda comfortably (most of us were kids). We harbored it on the Mississippi and spent many weekends, and sometimes a week or two on the thing, during the summer. It didn't have air conditioning and was very hot inside during the summer and uncomfortable during July/August. Whenever we stopped, (usually at islands), I would take my sunfish out and go exploring, I also had a several hydroplane racers that I would scoot about in pretty much everyplace we camped, (somethin to do), mostly in backwaters.
Now we live in SW Florida, and the keys, where it is ten times hotter year round, I couldn't imagine sleeping on board even a fairly large boat, (unless it has air conditioning). Sure it's fun to go sailing for an afternoon in a big ole sailboat, (we do it often with friends), but I wouldn't want to have to sleep in it, (not in the keys anyway).
What has really worked out well for us is our RV, (camper), towed behind our truck, we can stay pretty much anywhere we like, (usually near water), and typically spend at least a week at any destination. We cartop our TI, and take it down when we arrive, and typically just park it close by or at our campsite for the week. We go out a couple times a day typically and have a blast. The boat is modified just a little, and can haul 4 adults with ease, and with the outboards which are extremely fuel efficient, (around 80 mpg), we can go out all day for about a buck or two in fuel. We fitted the boat with big sail sets so it has some get up and go when the winds are favorable, but even in light winds (5 mph) we easily maintain and average around 10 mph speeds, giving us about a hundred mile day range, (10 hr x 10 mph = 100 miles per day), which is just about right for the huge Florida keys, or any of the giant lakes across the country, (ie.. great lakes, lake mead, Lake Hartwell, Bull shoals, etc), or oceans, (near shore and intercoastal waterways).
Yea it's a bit of a pain getting the boat up and down, (takes a couple hrs), but we always have to setup the camper and everything else as well when we arrive. If I had a choice I would always trailer the TI, but when traveling the hitch is occupied by the camper, so we are kinda screwed. Our trailer can be broken down into two pieces and I can always throw the trailer in the back of the truck, or strap the trailer to the back of the camper, (though we didn't last year because of weight restrictions). Once we are at the campsite, (for a week or two) it would be pretty easy to store the boat on the trailer, then tow (with the truck) to any launch, and go sailing. From the trailer it takes 15 minutes from backing up to the water to launching, which is acceptable for me. Many times I walked the boat thru campgrounds on a scupper cart , or the trailer down to the lakes and rivers.
Last year we were out and about for about 6 months traveling all around the country with our RV, (we visited as many of the 59 US national parks as we could find). Unfortunately one month in we heavily damaged the boat in high winds, so we had to put it in storage for the remainder of the trip, then picked it back up on our way home. We were also concerned about the zebra muscle bans out west, and also climbing the rockies with the boat on the roof, (our rig was near weight limits), we initially were planning to chance it, but after snapping the mast, and heavily damaging the boat, (too damaged to repair on the road), we continued without it, (boy did I kick myself afterward). Missed out on sailing Bull Shoals, Lake mead, Lake powell, Yellowstone lake, and the 2 beautiful lakes at Glacier. Our original plan was to go around the Michigan UP on the way back, and sail in lake michigan, and lake Huron, (another run out to Mackinac Island), and spend a week in Traverse city, but without the boat we cancelled that leg of the trip.
In years past when out and about traveling around the country, nearly half the time we left all the sails, outboards, AMA's, etc back at our campsite and just used the TI as a kayak to explore rivers to their headwaters, and small lakes, (best kayak we ever owned), and on smaller lakes we would just go out with the basic TI, (no massive sailsets, or outboards), and just explored, all the extras we left back at the campsite.
I'm with Stringy, there is no more versatile boat out there than the TI, maintainence is nothing, we store in our garage for free. And is quite capable if you get caught in rough conditions with the right mods, (all simple).
We have owned 3 of them and have been doin this since 2010 with very few issues, (most of our issues were always self induced).
I just wish Hobie would fully understand the true capabilities of this unique to the industry craft, and begin to exploit it's expanded capabilities, for expert sailers that want more than just a basic entry level recreational boat, (gets boring after 5-6 outings, once you learn the ropes, lol). It's a totally unique market that Hobie themselves invented, (the adventure market), yet they haven't done much with it in 12 yrs, (in my opinion), they could have done so much more.....
This was our rig, (pushed all our buttons for everything we ever wanted).