Thanks, Chris - very helpful.
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Originally Posted by chris_gee
....So if the boat costs 60k US your total costs may be of the order of 160,000 AUD all up.
But if the boat costs say 120k your total costs may be around 208K AUD.
For that you have a better equipped boat than one you would normally buy locally for coastal cruising. The question is do you need a fully long distance cruising boat.
Note that the extra costs are either much the same ie travelling loss of wages for an expensive boat as a cheap one, but fitting out an older cheaper boat may cost more and be disproportionate to its ultimate value.
This suggests to me either finding an uncommon well fitted out boat which is not worn out and that it is better value to buy a more expensive boat. However you may have to have more cash than you think. You also need to be able to get the use out of it. So a three month delivery doesn't go far in meeting that.
How much you should take into account loss of wages for time spent on what is to some extent a vacation is debatable, however you may still be paying expenses at home, mortgage, insurance, phone etc, as well as extra travel expenses while losing income so it could count for some but not for others.
Trust that helps. Bottom line it depends. |
All as I suspected and it does make a compelling argument for delivery "by others"..
I notice also that there are a couple of firms offering "sail-on sail-off" transport - potentially saving the cost of hoisting out at either end although I'm not sure what else.
Who do others do about berthing? Arrange something well beforehand I suppose?? That means it might be 2 years before we get a bigger boat..
