Sail yachting can be expensive or economical. You can blow a couple of grand in sails every year, buy the best yacht braid for lines, all the little do dads, like plotters, weather and wind instruments, depth sounders, folding props, all kinds of nice little things can cost 10's of thousands every year. Then a dock side tie up, and couple of grand a year (water front real estate isn't cheap). Winter storage and covering, hauling and painting, engine wear is off the wall with salt water all around.
1. The happiest days in someone's life is said to be when he buys his first yacht. The second happiest day in his life is when he sells it.
2. A yacht is said to be a hole in the water into which one pours money.
Supercharged wrote: I think it is time to go to the coast and take a hard look at a large Yacht, they tell me the prices are way down, it is like RVing in the water. No steep hill to climb, the price of tire mean nothing anymore to you. your brother in law will not pull up next to you and eat drink you beer.
Do a Google search for yachts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, & South Florida....
There's a bunch of yachts begging for new owners that that were owned by the subprime, wheeler-dealers that everyone thought were high-rollers, that are now broke and busted out now. They couldn't make the payments on 'em.....just like their real estate.
Same here, still have the yacht club membership card and year books. Decided I'd rather see the USA rather than up and down, up and down, up and down the same river! Much prefer our land yact, no monthly fees for the "hole in the water" at the dock, no yacht club dues, no worries about having it ice up in the winter and having to chip ice out between the boat and boat well, etc.
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Deen - Vancouver, WA
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I've considered going fulltime in a sailing yacht instead of a camper. I'd do it if I had the know-how... or the time to learn before I was too old. (Oops, too late!) I've known people who did it -- even as far as building their own boat to sail around the world.
A friend once asked me to help him sail his 50-foot boat to Hawaii. I sure wish I'd have taken him up on it. *shakes head* The things we always regret are those which we didn't do.
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