>>1581689Let me lay it out for you.
Let's start this based on the assumption you already bought the worst financial decision of your life.
How are you going to move your ship from the purchase point to where you want to keep it?
>I'll drive it thereOkay. Better get her repaired, registered, flagged, inspected, crewed, and fueled. This process of getting it up to snuff will cost north of $1 million even for a small ship. No modern port will let you leave without all that, and none will let you in their territorial waters without it.
>I'll have it towed dead shipCheaper option, but still going to cost you many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Making sure it's seaworthy, hiring the tow boats and crew and pilots and fuel for the weeks (I'm assuming it's across the world) to bring it here you want it.
Speaking of: Where are you putting it?
>I'll pay "rent" to dock it somewhereThousands of dollars a day. If you can even find someone willing to give up their valuable dock space to some eccentric that wants to live on a derelict rustbucket. And that ship better be maintained, the lines kept in good order and skeleton crew on hand, they don't want a disaster on their hands
>I'll tie it up on my own propertyWhere to even start. Say you have oceanfront with deep enough water to bring the ship in. Planning, permitting, environmental assessments, likely voted on, and construction. I'd guess at minimum a five year investment before you can build your dock. And likely be shot down, because newsflash, nobody will willingly invite a looming ecological disaster into their municipality. But they'll take your money and string you through years of red tape.
Say you make it to that point and your ship is alongside.
What are you doing for power? Using a generator? Better know how to maintain it. Using shore power? Better have a hookup. Bill is going to be high just to keep big metal box cooled/heated. Better spend every waking hour chipping and painting to keep the hull in shape.
