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Month 54 Costs of Cruising and Living on the Boat

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#1 ·
Spent the month in the Bahamas. Been a lot of weather holds, some of which result in no way to spend money, and once that resulted in a marina stay in Nassau to wait out. Of course a stay in Nassau works out to a good provision stop compared to lots of the Bahamas. Nassau BTW was a semi ghost town far as tourists go.

General living - Grocery, beer, supply runs, sundries, clothes, “other” etc. for the month was normal. Even though we were stocked up we did more while waiting in Nassau.

Boat costs were small and were just a spare fuel filter and a brush handle.

Dining out and entertainment costs were fairly small considering the cost of eating out here, even if doing “local”.

Fees were credit card cash back and our 2021 Customs tag.

Communication was cell phones, inReach monthly tracking cost, and a month of WIFI service for Bahamas.

Marina cost was 4 days in a slip at Nassau plus a dinghy landing fee when we were on anchor. There was also a small elect charge while in the slip and 4 days of mandatory water charge.

Medical/dental was just monthly ACA plan payment.

Registration was renewal of our Florida registration of boat and dinghy.

The total expenses were $ 2,390.77. Cost breakdown as follows for planners and hecklers:

General Living - Food, soda, alcohol, clothing, sundries, other - $ 1,006.55
Boat costs - upgrades, repairs, maintenance - $ 52.86
Fuel (diesel, gas, propane) - $ 161.02
Dining and drinking out - $ 313.18
Communication, storage, shipping - $ 266.01
Fees – $ -22.84
Marina - $ 377.36
Electric - $ 6.55
Medical - $ 46.99
Water - $ 35.84
Registration - $ 147.25
 
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#2 ·
Spent the month in the Bahamas. Been a lot of weather holds, some of which result in no way to spend money, and once that resulted in a marina stay in Nassau to wait out. Of course a stay in Nassau works out to a good provision stop compared to lots of the Bahamas. Nassau BTW was a semi ghost town far as tourists go.

General living - Grocery, beer, supply runs, sundries, clothes, "other" etc. for the month was normal. Even though we were stocked up we did more while waiting in Nassau.

Boat costs were small and were just a spare fuel filter and a brush handle.

Dining out and entertainment costs were fairly small considering the cost of eating out here, even if doing "local".

Fees were credit card cash back and our 2021 Customs tag.

Communication was cell phones, inReach monthly tracking cost, and a month of WIFI service for Bahamas.

Marina cost was 4 days in a slip at Nassau plus a dinghy landing fee when we were on anchor. There was also a small elect charge while in the slip and 4 days of mandatory water charge.

Medical/dental was just monthly ACA plan payment.

Registration was renewal of our Florida registration of boat and dinghy.

The total expenses were $ 2,390.77. Cost breakdown as follows for planners and hecklers:

General Living - Food, soda, alcohol, clothing, sundries, other - $ 1,006.55
Boat costs - upgrades, repairs, maintenance - $ 52.86
Fuel (diesel, gas, propane) - $ 161.02
Dining and drinking out - $ 313.18
Communication, storage, shipping - $ 266.01
Fees - $ -22.84
Marina - $ 377.36
Electric - $ 6.55
Medical - $ 46.99
Water - $ 35.84
Registration - $ 147.25
Is this a fairly normal monthly expenses in your situation?
 
#3 ·
Svendahl, this is post #54, so the answer to your question would be to check through as many of the previous posts as you wanted and calculate an average. Not trying to be a 'smarty', simply saying the data from Don L is already out there.
 
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