>>1072945This "hole in the water you drop money in" thing needs to die.
Everything requires maintenance, everything. Your house, your car, everything. Some thing more than others.
If you are a retard that bought a 10 grand sailboat than needs 30 grand in repairs just because you thought that you can fix it on the cheap then you are just mentally defective.
When you go see a boat, you take a surveyor with you, and he will go over the boat with a checklist, note everything that needs fixing and or replaced, then you can go and cost that list in an afternoon by calling the workshops in your area and getting a budget. Then you use that to negotiate a sale price with the boat owner.
Not the other way round.
Another thing that nobody mentions when buying a boat, what are you going to use it for?
Are you going to liveaboard? Go cruising full time? Use it as a weekend getaway? A daysailer? A mancave away from the wife and kids?
Will you keep it on a pier at the marina with utilities, a swinging mooring, or trailer it home?
Will you keep it on the hard over the winter or in the water?
I have lived aboard sailboats on and off for almost 20 years now, in every continent but Australia and Oceania, and it always turned up to be cheaper than renting ashore.
Just to give you and idea, last year i had a mooring at Beumaris, Wales. 360 GBP. A year.
Conwy is three hours motoring away and it was 400 and change, also yearly, those mooring are run by the council and the allow liveaborads.
In Carthagena (this year and probably next) you can get a slip with electricity, water, wifi and cable for 2950 or so euros a year, that´s under 250 a month for a slip 10 minutes away from the city center. That´s for a boat under 10.5 meters. (35 feet for any stupid yanks reading this).
My entire expenses for insurance, slip fees, maintenance, haul outs and spares for a year is around 7000 euros. Much cheaper than living ashore.
