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• Annual costs to keep a sailboat
  • costs
    • My Expenses
  • Your cost is very low
    • I think you guys are nuts ... Plan to spend 10% of your boats value, excluding
      • I've never unstood basing cost on the price
        • It's not related to price, except insurance
      • I get good rates on storage and labor
        • Your storage situation is great, but your own mooring isn't without expense or maintenance (pic)
          • I included annual fees, inspection and amortized replacement of mooring parts...
            • Hey, Todd --what's the cost up there to sink a mooring? And a few other mooring qn's for you.
              • Jud - my mooring cost $1,400...
                • Was just now quoted $6K - $9K !!!
                  • 60' is pretty deep..depth really increases the cost....
                    • Todd...thanks a ton for the info. Anyone have any experience or info about all-rope moorings?
                      • I'm suspicious of those rope moorings -- because any hard marine growth will cause chafe (pic)
          • Trust me Larry
            • The mooring service people here run barges...
              • I could stand corrected, then
                • It's all local. Ours are inspected by diving or lifting. Once a year, and gets a town inspection tag. (nm)
        • Expenses
  • Boat ownership costs
    • We keep our 28-ft Shearwater Yawl beside our garage under a tarp
  • Annual boat costs
    • 35' Coast Sailboat
  • 41' Cat
  • Cost of ownership...
    • Beautiful, Peter... hmmm, that spot sure looks familiar (grin) (nm)
  • I'm lucky, most of my expenses come from USING my boat, as opposed to simply owning her... (grin)
  • Your low costs to keep your boat just prove what a great deal Maine is for public access to the water. (pic)
    • Actually my costs have nothing to do with public access in Maine...
      • I'm surprised. I would think you could rent mooring space from the town up there.
        • I do pay a mooring fee to the town, but...
          • That the town allows you setting a mooring and has shoreland for you to get there, is public access.
    • If you divide the $/month, it's not quite so inexpensive ;^) (nm)
      • Very clever Steve. :) (nm)
  • Sheeit, I paid that much just for slip fee.
  • I would rather not give it too much thought
    • Same here
      • We can always count on another $500 to $1000
      • Yes we have it pretty good here. I kept a boat in Falmouth Foreside for a season.
        • Oh yeah, it's dirt cheap compared to a lot of places
        • Actually
          • Southwest Harbor has three town docks...
            • Little Harbor in Portsmouth has no town dock
  • Of course you need to amortize wear items
    • NYC 35' on a mooring
    • I didn't include amortized costs of replacement of things like sails becasue...
      • If you skimp on those things you pay at resale time. If you've used it up or replaced with crap, it's crap.
        • Another thing to consider: You don't know your total cost of ownership until after you sell.
        • You didn't get my point did you...
  • Sorry, the cost of keeping a sailboat is WAY OT for me (nm)
  • insurance
  • Why does anyone even care?
    • Finally -- the voice of sanity!
    • that's the truth
      • It's a familiar story (pic)
        • Sure is, we're in the same boat... there's good reason why boats are feminine...
          • Well Jon, you know what they say....
    • Why does anyone even care? Read the question in Todd's post, Dan.
      • Exactly
      • A boat is no different than anything else.
        • I wonder if Todd has in mind this new book, "Saving Sailing", or if it's just idle speculation on his part
          • You could always trade the tender for a sailing dingy.
            • That's almost what I did...
  • The slip fees alone on the west coast are higher than that.
    • sli[p fees in so cali
      • Thanks for making my point. (nm)
      • LA & San Diego Dockage very easy to find
        • Had no problem in San Diego either.
        • That price still tops what I was quoting...
      • SoCal slip fees have dropped significantly
        • Not in Alameda
          • Same increases at Marina Village BUT