How much does a week`s cruising cost?

[chubby]

I had a week away last week with elder daughter, went to Poole and paid for everything by card which made the cost quite transparent when I checked my internet banking on return! I am too embarrassed to reveal the sum but several hundreds!

Now a pre season week in Paris with Mrs Chubby and lots of eating out and museum visits was even more so all in perspective.

If alone I am perfectly happy anchoring in quiet spots and eating aboard and even in the Solent area there are loads of free anchorages or where harbour fees are £5 or below or not always collected, from say Pilsey island in Chi to Lulworth cove and all stops in between, so especially if you liberate some supplies from home, only to stop them going past the best by date you understand, a week could be virtually free.

However once the family are aboard the rot sets in: easier to walk ashore than row so more marinas, it seems a shame not to try the local hostelries and eateries, if it is pouring with rain all day, a day alongside in Poole boat haven with electricity, WiFi, showers and pubs seems better than anchoring round the back of Brownsea in the fog and rain with a pork pie! £37 odd mooring fees and a meal out for two and suddenly you can loose £100 a day oops!!!!

Suddenly I wish I had a bilge keeler and like some forumites park for free, what fun to go aground at the end of someone's private jetty.......

Perhaps just enjoy and don`t count the cost!

 

[sailorman]

we cook double potions @ home & freeze the extra. then take frozen tubs with us, it starts the fridge off to cool beer & better food than ashore

 

[Skylark]

Perhaps just enjoy and don`t count the cost!

I certainly didn't buy mine with any consideration of value for money.

As UK working / recreational sailors, we get so few memorable weekends, be them single handed, with partner or rdv with friends for a secluded beach bbq. On those rather occasions, it's simply priceless.

 

[Slow_boat]

If you will go into marinas and eat ashore, what do you expect?

Ashore we eat out once in a blue moon, usually birthdays, and go out to the pub once a fortnight. No reason to be different on the boat.

 

[dylanwinter]

I kept careful tabs while I was on the Humber

the mooring was £300 for the year - the only fixed cost

variable costs, counting petrol for the car, supermarket hit - booze n pasties , petrol for the outboard I reckoned I averaged £100 for three days

since I was last in Scotland in feb things have got way out of hand

ISAs are falling like nine pins

D

 

[ronmarson]

I was speaking with a man that lorried his Nic31 from Portsmouth to Galway and he said it cost him €2000.
I sailed my Macwester 27 from Southampton to Galway, and I think it probably cost about €3000, but it took from April to September, and I had a great summer.
Don't know what that proves.
Say 28 weeks at €107/week, lots of anchoring, lots of simple eating aboard, lots of charity shop books, a bottle or two of Lidle wine.
Eating out and Marinas are the problem.
Capt. RoN

 

[James_Calvert]

My theory, whilst with youngish children, is that it cost half as much as a land-based holiday.

Our routine was to sail all one day and then rest/ enjoy the beaches etc on the next. Saved a fortune on the sailing days, no icecream/ crepes etc whilst at sea!

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Try booking a week in the Med on a 32ft for 3people. Puts these costs into perspective!

 

[freddy the frog]

Try booking a week in the Med on a 32ft for 3people. Puts these costs into perspective!

have a couple of nights in yarmouth and eat out you will need to see a financial adviser afterwards to see where it all went wrong

 

[DJE]

How much does a daughter cost?

 

[Tranona]

Based on my experience with 2 of them - have them when you are young and penniless, educate them well and they look after themselves from about 18 onwards when they have learned to spend money. However by then it is theirs' or their partners' and not yours except through choice.

 

[Searush]

You answered your own question. It costs as much or as little as you wish.
I can anchor up creek and eat last year's cans out of the bilges or stay in marinas and buy meals in restaurants. But I don't do either, I take fresh foods and anchor off to get the best boat time I can at a manageable cost.

 

[chubby]

View attachment 42236As an antidote to some expensive but very enjoyable nights alongside in Yarmouth and Poole quay boat haven, went back to my roots for the bank holiday and anchored somewhere I had only ever sailed past on passage to somewhere else: Totland bay, lovely spot with great views across to the Isle of Purbeck and back to Hurst so felt like out of the Solent, flat calm at night, liberated some supplies from home, a bottle of red, my sea shanty CDs and I even or the first time ever tried the fray bentos pie I had in the bilges for emergencies, not bad all! Eight other boats to share the bay, but plenty of room to put out the required scope and not worry about swinging in the night as in Newtown, great place in the right conditions and free!