Sailing with George and Vicky
Sunday, April 28, 2024
No Sailing - The Little One Has Arrived
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Moving Aboard for the Start of the Season
Most important to note is the fact that Seas The Day remains up for sale. (Here's the link if it is still for sale.) We just reduced the price to hopefully bring about Mr. & Mrs. Buyer, but in the meantime, well, let's make some lemonade.
With that in mind, I packed up just enough to get the season started. Last year, I removed 4 dock carts worth of stuff, leaving only that equipment we wanted to pass onto new owners. This spring, I moved 2 dock carts worth of items (basic bedding, galley items, etc.) back aboard.
That left a big mess in the salon, and a large list of boat-chores to get through.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Checking in During Winter Storage
Not much to say here.
Throughout the winter, I stopped by Rock Hall to check in on Seas The Day on most weeks. These visits are basically a quick trip down and a brief check on-board to be sure everything is OK. It usually was.
Here are a few of the photos.
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Costs of Owning a Boat - "Seas The Day" (Catalina 425) 5th Season Costs
Photo Credit: Wealth Management |
Second, a citation... we did this experiment with our Catalina 315. Additional links to the costs over our ownership of that vessel are found on that page.
If you click on the 315 link above and go back to the first-year costs, I spoke about how we didn't approach buying a boat lightly and how we carefully researched costs and couldn't find specifics so I decided to share mine so others could understand the total picture about boat ownership. Purchasing the 425 was less researched, but still the total costs figured large in our brief discussions. For that reason, and to be able to project from year to year, we are continuing this tally.
As in the other cost-related posts, we'll group the costs into three categories.
ONE-TIME COSTS - costs of major equipment that we don't expect to have regularly.
RECURRING COSTS - Those costs that we expect to see yearly as owners.
EXCURSION COSTS - We we did more multi-day excursions this year and we'll address those specifically below. The rest were just days sailing on the Chesapeake Bay.
Once again please understand that I'm rounding excessively. If you're a CPA type, you're going to rapidly realize that things don't cross-check, etc. The goal here is to share approximate costs to other potential boat owners, not to give an exact accounting.
ONE-TIME COSTS:
We had two different one-time costs this year.