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From: Mike Batchelor (no email)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 21:21:33 EDT
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 00:35:41 -0000, squidsrus85 <> wrote:
> I'd appreciate some guide to basic costs of crusing locally and the
> world. I can figure out the easy stuff like mooring and insurance etc
> etc and possibly food to large degree.
Local cruising is the most expensive, if local means US coastal
cruising. You are after all paying for things at prices needed to
support the merchant who expects to have an American lifestyle. :)
Mexico is generally a lot cheaper, but Cabo San Lucas has one of the
most expensive marinas in the world. But you didn't want to sail to
Mexico to sit in a marina, did you? :) The rest of Central America
is even cheaper than Mexico. I have no idea what East Asia will be
like, but I imagine it's similar to Thailand, which I have visited
before: cheap by US standards. But Korea is as expensive as any
developed Western country. Africa is probably the cheapest place of
all to cruise, and there are lots of people with much experience
repairing old boats - the only kind they can afford. I hear the Med is
quite expensive, but who wants to marina-hop?
Some people cruise on as little as $5000 per year, including a spouse
and a kid or two. I remember reading a letter to Latitude38 magazine
by a guy who had a small catamaran and cruised the west coast of
Mexico with his wife and two daughters. They had no water tank, the
only water on board was dinghied over in jerry-cans. They had no
reefer or refrigeration. The auxilliary was an old Evinrude outboard.
The only power source was a single solar panel, which charged the
batteries to run the sewing machine the wife used to make their
clothing, and the VHF radio. The guy's comment that stuck with me was
something like "I may have to dinghy ashore to find ice for my rum,
but if that's the biggest hardship I have to face, I'm not
complaining."
I'm figuring $10,000 per year, for fuel, food, clothing, amusement
(that's about $27/day); and a $50,000 emergency cache. Any crew I
meet and pick up will be expected to pay for their share of those
expenses, so taking on crew can help extend my cruise, as well as let
me make new friends.
When I look to buy something, I now think in terms of how many months
or years of cruising will this cost me, and make my decision
accordingly.
> What other things should I factor in??
A vacation from the boat. I own a timeshare in Cabo (all weeks are
prime season - red on RCI network) with floating weeks and accelerated
use (more than one week per year can be used) that can be traded on
RCI and some other timeshare networks. I can tie up at some
destination, go ashore and find an internet cafe, login to my
timeshare account and deposit a week into one of the networks, and
then use that week to get a condo apartment at a local resort for just
the maintenance fee (about $200-300 for the week is typical). That's
one of the ways I will take a vacation from the boat.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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