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Old 08-24-2015, 06:58 PM   #41
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For instance, "we don't spend nearly as much boating as if we owned a 256' Lurssen, yacht name "TV", which charters for $982,000 per week. Oh and it requires a crew of 25.

Why rent when you can own for €130,000,000?
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Old 08-24-2015, 07:33 PM   #42
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Why rent when you can own for €130,000,000?
Just thinking of how many boats we could have for $150 million.
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Just thinking of how many boats we could have for $150 million.

Well, at least one anyway
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Only one part of the world we really want badly to visit that we can't get to by water. Actually can get there by water but distance may prevent us from going that route. That's Australia and New Zealand and the other Pacific Islands.
A poor substitute for a leisurely "pick your own destinations/stay as long as you like" DIY voyage, but you could cover much of that on a cruise ship repositioning voyage. Cruise ships head to Australia in September, often from Seattle or Vancouver after cruising to Alaska, to cruise our summer.
We are considering visiting Canada next year (their $ has tanked as much as ours), and including an Inside Passage cruise in the trip.
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50+ boats on the marina ranging from $1.8m to $30000 some have never moved in 3 years some are polished every month and never taken out .Most are used as somewhere to spend the afternoon on with friends but never go out . Of the 50+boats I see 8 are used as floating weekender's .Is the marina I'm on any different to where you live ? I'm out and about and away from the marina at least once a week am I strange ?
We are somewhere in the middle. When we bought our first boat we said that if we didn't average taking the boat out twice a month, then we'd stop being boat owners. We have always easily taken the boat out 24 times a year ever since. We leave the dock more in the spring and summer, and less in the fall and winter.

However, we do quite a bit of dock-queen trips too. We treat our boat as a second home or a vacation home. So just going down to the boat for an evening or an overnight has now become a common usage, and we have decided that counts as a day...

There aren't many opportunities for oceanfront property in our area for $500/mo or so, and that's how we justify the expense.

YMMV of course.
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A poor substitute for a leisurely "pick your own destinations/stay as long as you like" DIY voyage, but you could cover much of that on a cruise ship repositioning voyage. Cruise ships head to Australia in September, often from Seattle or Vancouver after cruising to Alaska, to cruise our summer.
We are considering visiting Canada next year (their $ has tanked as much as ours), and including an Inside Passage cruise in the trip.
We're not cruise ship fans. If we go there by air...oh that dreaded word...then our plan would be to charter there. While we want to see the land attractions, we want to see and experience them from the water.

There is one other option. Ship a boat there and keep it there a year or so.
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However, we do quite a bit of dock-queen trips too. We treat our boat as a second home or a vacation home. So just going down to the boat for an evening or an overnight has now become a common usage, and we have decided that counts as a day...

There aren't many opportunities for oceanfront property in our area for $500/mo or so, and that's how we justify the expense.

YMMV of course.
I believe that completely counts as using the boat.
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