What's a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

[SeaDave]

What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

Just mulling over retirement plans - long long time away unfortunately!

Let's say the mortgage is paid off - you can take 1 or maybe 2 months a year hols and you want to be able to take at least 4 of you to the Med for a 3-4 week holiday......what would be the minimum size/type of boat you'd need?

Bear in mind these are all hypothetical musings so lets say a budget of somewhere between 100-150k at todays prices. Could you do it for this sort of money?

All thoughts and accompaning pics of suggestions welcome!!

 

[tcm]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

Don't quite understand - you retire but only get 3-4 weeks hol a year in the med? For only 3-4 weeks per year I wd chartr, not buy.

 

[oldgit]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

H,mm doubt that will buy you anything big enough to get four of you onboard for four weeks and still remain friends.Anything largish at the £150k section of the market is going to be fairly old and anything newer its gonna be titchy .When you say go to the Med in,do you mean actually go there by boat.?
TCM has actually done the trip and it will prob take half your holiday just to get there.
Ps.Lots of peeps have got the idea that when you have got rid of the mortgage and other debts,that you will suddenly be rolling innit,er if anything your are more skint and have less time to do stuff than ever. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Whitelighter]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

A cruise liner

 

[SeaDave]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

OK, when I say retired I mean semi-retired!

Own business, hence once the big debts are paid off I'll have a couple of months of playtime a year.

Now that's clarified /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif what size boat would you need for a trip such as that do you think?

 

[oldgit]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

A nice 50 footer of some sort and deep pockets for fuel.

 

[Frontier]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

QE II /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[jfm]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

It's 1500 miles each way to Cote D'Azur, across Biscay etc. Possibly an endurance test not a holiday. 150miles a day would be very hard work and you'd have 10 such days, each way... Fuel bill would be 10% of the budget you quote.

For that sort of money you might buy a 40footer motorboat. But you could charter one in the med for 3 weeks for the same £££spend as 3000miles worth of fuel (charter is say £5k/week, fuel is £15k for 3000miles at 1mpg)

 

[SeaDave]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

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It's 1500 miles each way to Cote D'Azur, across Biscay etc. Possibly an endurance test not a holiday. 150miles a day would be very hard work and you'd have 10 such days, each way... Fuel bill would be 10% of the budget you quote.

For that sort of money you might buy a 40footer motorboat. But you could charter one in the med for 3 weeks for the same £££spend as 3000miles worth of fuel (charter is say £5k/week, fuel is £15k for 3000miles at 1mpg)

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Ah, that's that then!

 

[omega2]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

this?

 

[jfm]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

Sorry SeaDave, didn't deliberately try to p!ss on your strawberries. Your concept is good, just cut out the travelling to/from the med by boat. Get a boat in the med instead (which is what I and many posters on here do) then travel there not by sea but by taking a perfectly good aeroplane. Keep the boat mileage short, or at least broken into daily bite-size chunks. Remember, a lot of the fun you have in a boat is when you're stopped (swimming and lunching at anchor, and suchlike)

 

[Nautorius]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

Hi Dave,

This will not be popular on here....but what you should be looking at is a Barge! Then you can keep her in France on the canals/Seine and spend the 4 weeks tootling down to the South of France and back.

I know of a specialist manufacturer who can build a twin cabin 50ft Barge for under £200k all in. He also has some available for 'timeshare' ownership so instead of paying £200k and £5k a year running costs you buy 4 weeks at £28k total (£7k a week) and pay £1300 a year towards running costs. You get the boat for 10 years use then she is sold and you get the proceeds. You can also split the weeks up. You would travel in style and not fall out!

PM me if you want more info.

Cheers

Paul /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

PS. This is not a commercial post! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[SeaDave]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

JFM - not at all - happy to be corrected!
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nautorious -I'd rather bleach my eyes out than have a barge thanks. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Nautorius]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

Just thinking practical!

I also would not choose to own one but a lot do!

OK, How about looking at a Catamaran. For £150k you should get a 2/3 year old 35ft Catamaran with tons of space, better fuel economy and better entertaining space?

ust a lateral thought!

Cheers

Paul /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[SeaDave]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

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Just thinking practical!

I also would not choose to own one but a lot do!

OK, How about looking at a Catamaran. For £150k you should get a 2/3 year old 35ft Catamaran with tons of space, better fuel economy and better entertaining space?

ust a lateral thought!

Cheers

Paul /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Now you're talking /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif That sounds much better than a barge.

I'm starting to think that JFM's way is a better one - I jsut don't like the idea of not having the boat nearby for unplanned weekends away on it.

Oh well, I've got a fair while to go before I retire so plenty of time to think about it!

 

[Ships_Feline]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

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Barge + tootling = /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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Can I help you to burn your eyes, Sea Dave?

 

[Nautorius]

Re: What\'s a suitable boat to go to the Med in?

Great,

Here is One and another

Or you could wait to see if any new builders enter the market in the next 2/3 years!

Just a thought!

Paul /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif