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Your storage situation is great, but your own mooring isn't without expense or maintenance (pic)
In Response To: I get good rates on storage and labor ()
A new mooring/tackle costs a significant amount of money, and you need to hire someone with a pickup truck with lifting gear, and a workboat crane to put it in.
The mooring shackle below failed due to corrosion. Look at the gap around the pin and the inconsistent diameter of the shackle. The boat on it incurred significant damage when it went aground.
A mooring should be pulled for inspection at least every other year, and tackle that shows any significant degradation replaced. (Some people say every third year, but it's better to be confident about what's down there.)
Messages In This Thread
- Annual costs to keep a sailboat
- costs
- 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
- I get good rates on storage and labor
- Your storage situation is great, but your own mooring isn't without expense or maintenance (pic)
- Expenses
- I think you guys are nuts ... Plan to spend 10% of your boats value, excluding
- Boat ownership costs
- Annual boat costs
- 41' Cat
- Cost of ownership...
- 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)
- Sheeit, I paid that much just for slip fee.
- I would rather not give it too much thought
- Of course you need to amortize wear items
- Sorry, the cost of keeping a sailboat is WAY OT for me (nm)
- insurance
- Why does anyone even care?
- The slip fees alone on the west coast are higher than that.