Yesterday I grew up.

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Yesterday I grew up when I realised a few truths about myself and my boat, a Prout 37 snow goose elite. Today I am miserable because I found out that it is better to be ill informed and happy rather than face the awful reality of a delusion.

So what happened? Well I got my calculator out and accidentally did some sums. I calculated that I could haul out, and moor a 45 foot monohull for the same price as my little catamaran.

OK, I love my catamaran so maybe I will feel better tomorrow. I hope so. Just saying.
 
BurnitBlue said:
Yesterday I grew up when I realised a few truths about myself and my boat, a Prout 37 snow goose elite. Today I am miserable because I found out that it is better to be ill informed and happy rather than face the awful reality of a delusion.

So what happened? Well I got my calculator out and accidentally did some sums. I calculated that I could haul out, and moor a 45 foot monohull for the same price as my little catamaran.

OK, I love my catamaran so maybe I will feel better tomorrow. I hope so. Just saying.
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I wouldn’t call a snow goose elite 37 small. Great boat. Possibly better than the larger mono you suggested.

Many people would be envious.

If you can afford it, enjoy it.

If you cannot afford it, scale down as we had to do.

Sailing for most of us is not a way to make money, but costs money, (the joke of a hole in the water into which money is thrown is sort of true).
 
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Poignard said:
I once got a pencil and a bit of paper and worked out that it would be cheaper per mile to travel by Concorde than to sail anywhere.

I threw the bit of paper away in case my wife saw it.
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I’m sure there were some politically Concordian long noses at the time when the project ‘budgets for all that 1960s ‘white heat of technology’overran and overran. Amazing it got into the air really.

Ya can’t put a price on having fun on a good boat.
And afaik boats don’t get pregnant 😂

Feel better now?
 
I think we all know that facts and myths should be kept in their own seperated boxes. They are safe there. It is even OK to open them occasionally but never open more than one at a time. They can be volatile when they mix.

It is already tomorrow and I do feel better.
 
BurnitBlue said:
I think we all know that facts and myths should be kept in their own seperated boxes. They are safe there. It is even OK to open them occasionally but never open more than one at a time. They can be volatile when they mix.

It is already tomorrow and I do feel better.
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I keep all my boat receipts in a boxfile so I can, when the need arises, rummage through to find where I bought what when. One day a new owner might find them helpful.

They are absolutely not there for adding up - that way madness lies.
 
My late brother ruined my day years ago when he came for a sail on our then fairly new boat by pointing out that if this was, say, the tenth day out on the boat, then the day’s sail had cost me £500.
 
excluding weekends and what not, we’re on track to spend 4 weeks aboard this season. That makes the boat cost around £100 a night. That’s cheaper than a premier inn.

I’d argue that’s decent value.

Similarly, I had a wee look at the cost of a day trip for myself, my wife and son to go over to Staffa for the morning from Tobermory - that would be £200!
 
This thread reminds me of a conversation I had with a Broom motorboat owner about 8 years ago. He had just completed a round Britain via the Caledonian Canal. I asked him what he had spent of fuel, he casually replied about £10,000. Yikes, I only spent £60 that year. He then explained that they used the boat for just over 3 months, but compared to many of their friends he said he was quids in. They were all going on cruise ships 4 or 5 times a year at a cost of £10,000 per trip. So everything is always relative.
 
(Possibly because all jobs on the boat take ages) I doubt the £/hr of this passtime is much worse than any other that is actually fun
 
Say you bought an inexpensive small boat and sailed off into the blue, working your way along and not paying posh marina rates as ya go..

Just how much rent/ mortgage, commute, car payment (or set aside for the next car), compensatory cups of coffee and evenings out, and more..Well how much might that save, PER DAY?
 
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