On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:56:57 -0500, JustWait
wrote:

On 1/10/2012 10:54 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:20:00 -0500, wrote:

That's an interesting thought but I prefer to have my boat available
whenever I need it and I'm lucky enough to live in an area where I can
use it 300+ days a year!

The question is, will you?
I log about 300 hours a year so it is easy to justify owning a boat.
There are other people here who don't use 10% of that a year.

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We've logged about 3,000 hours on the trawler over 7 years, another
200+ on the runabout, and at least another several hundred on the
dinghies.



Whats it cost you a year to live like that? Just wonderin'...

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I honestly don't know and purposely avoid that calculation. The cost
of cruising runs all over the map depending a lot on how much time you
spend in marinas and restaurants. Many of our ownership costs are
fixed regardless of whether we use the boat are not, even some of the
maintenance expenses. Our average fuel burn is about 7 to 8
gallons/hour when underway, about $30 at current prices. Variable
maintenance costs probably add another 50 to 100%.