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Subject: Re: [world-cruising] Thank you everyone...
JAXAshby@XXX.XXX
Date: Sat Apr 05 2003 - 19:27:59 EST
In a message dated 4/5/03 2:34:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
capella@XXX.XXX writes:
> > Our budget to purchase the boat will be about 100,000. We will have
> > a monthly budget of 1,500 to live on. Is this feasible?
>
> Short answer is yes.
Shorter answer yet is No. A hundred grand powerboat can _easily_ burn more
than $1,500 a month in fuel, and engine (read "expensive") rebuilds are a
fact of life.
In fact, even a hundred grand sailboat might make it tough on a grand a half
a month budget after you consider the cost of buying the boat, then cost of
maintaining the boat, then the cost of using the boat. All this before such
frivolous items as food and/or clothing, not to mention a cold beer or two,
or maybe a dock at night on occasion.
Many people cruise on $1,500 a month or less, but I've never heard of one
doing it on a powerboat they spent a hundred grand buying. And *very* few
who bought such a priced sailboat. A hundred grand boat brings with it the
lifestyle of a hundred grand boat buyer. A fifty grand boat brings with it
the lifestyle of a fifty grand boat buyer. A twenty grand ...
Most people who start out "to go cruising" quit the game in about 1/3 the
time they expected and they are usually broke.
You have the hundred grand to spend? Consider your options if you only spend
twenty of it on a boat, go cruising for 12 to 15 months and _then_ decide
*if* you want to spend the other eighty grand or not. If so, for sure you'll
spend the money differently then with a year or more's experience than you
will now with zero point zero experience.
btw, yesterday morning I stepped off a used quarter mil boat, having helped
the new owner move his boat several hundred miles. I helped because he
needed crew to move the boat. I've done that a number of times in last two
years and only one of those boats was under 32 feet and only two total were
under 40 feet. Owners of smaller boats voyage unassisted. Owners of larger
boats nearly always are on the lookout for crew. Less than 1/2 day in port
on the last boat I had the owners of two other boats (both boats over 55
feet) ask me if I knew of crew available to help them move their boats.
Good luck to you, but might I suggest you crawl before you walk, and walk
before you run? It's the same view of paradise, the same sunsets.
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