liveaboard the actual cost?

[ribrage]

Sorry, but I think your figures are a little awry: 200 a month for food/beer = 2400 a year, taking your total nearer to 6200 per annum. You haven't mentioned fuel for bike or car either or is that included in the 400 per year? Still very cheap though!

You are absolutely correct i didnt spot the obvious mistake and i have corrected it and included breakdown of costs re bike, the van was a little more costly.

i think the corrections are accurate, i have paid less on occasions for a week ashore but 800 for a week is inc leccy and all the usual chargeable bits from a marina.

necesity is the mother of all invention, we all live on what we can afford or in some cases what we choose to spend.

 

[ukmctc]

absolutely brilliant, thanks and hope there's more to come.
I sat down and worked out what we expected to spend and what we did spend and my figures were right we spent less than expected each year. So that's the 5k difference, it wasn't used or we didn't have it and adjusted accordingly.
Its really good to read the different costs, I'm sure that'll help people who are looking at starting out as liveaboards, it really does help just to see the figures.

 

[NornaBiron]

I agree. If someone had told us that we could live comfortably on my pension when we left the UK four years ago I would seriously doubted their sanity (we still left though, knowing that was all we had!). Necessity is the mother of all invention.

 

[damsis44]

It is interesting to read how this cost varies AND how people's lifestyle and expectations whilst living aboard vary too. I have to admit to being alarmed when I read some of the higher figures, as we won't have anything like that to live on, but as has been said, you live on what you have, and that's what we shall be doing. I like the idea of taking out a month's money at a time and making it last, it avoids the temptation of just nipping to the ATM!