Owning a Boat is EXPENSIVE!

[Arunas]

Sailing it is not a money it live style, if you are thinking about money, depreciation, better not to start sail. I am sailing 32 year. For my friends I suggest better to rent yacht for summer it will cost less. Becouse it like drags.
Arunas

[k1vsk]

this is your brain on drags (sic).

[Yamsailor]

I do not dispute sailing costs a lot of money nor do I dispute that it is worth it if you like or love the sport/lifestyle. For the situation here in the mid-atlantic/north east--The bottom line is the average financial resources available for this lifestyle or for anything requiring disposable income is decreasing. This is a fact on the ground. Furthermore, in my opinion, I believe this will be the situation for the foreseeable future.

[Sailormann]

A charter vessel is a prostitute of the seas - available to anyone with sufficient cash, aging rapidly and of suspect integrity.

My boat is faithful to me, available to no-one else regardless of how much cash they wave about, and I know every inch of her to be strong and unsullied.

[Yamsailor]

I agree...and your point is?

[pjboots]

I personally have my eye on a 30+ CC which is being neglected right now! I hope to get a great price on it.
Let’s face it all activities cost money. Biking, hiking, cars, skiing, golf you name it you’re not going to make money doing any of these things but ultimately it is about gaining experience. People who buy boats because of a dream and then realize the dream is not what they expected are gaining as much experience as the people who fall in love with the sport; it's just a different kind of experience... Maybe it's not them though; may I suggest it might be the wife who won't go sailing... Besides I got my boat for a great price because some one fell out of love with it. The world needs dreamers and realists.


PJ

[sab30]

Originally Posted by Yamsailor

I do not dispute sailing costs a lot of money nor do I dispute that it is worth it if you like or love the sport/lifestyle. For the situation here in the mid-atlantic/north east--The bottom line is the average financial resources available for this lifestyle or for anything requiring disposable income is decreasing. This is a fact on the ground. Furthermore, in my opinion, I believe this will be the situation for the foreseeable future.

If you think owning a boat is expensive wait until you change boats...thats where the real financial hit comes...selling brokerage fees, delivery costs, crystalized depreciation...my lesson was better learn fast what you want cause playing "flip this boat" could send you to the poor house...

[Sailormann]

If everyone could afford to sail then the sea would be completely overrun and we'd have to find some other way of gaining solitude...

[sailingdog]

Nothing a crate of ammo and a Barrett .50 cal couldn't fix... Limpet mines help too.

Originally Posted by Sailormann

If everyone could afford to sail then the sea would be completely overrun and we'd have to find some other way of gaining solitude...

[xhawk101]

um, gen x sailor here, and love taking my technology sailing with me- autopilot, etc.

did fractional sailing for 3 yrs since time does not always allow many days per mo.

I think future (of sailing) is bright since it is "green" and now we know global warming is NOT bull (unless u are under the faux propaganda spell.)