Month 68 Expenses of Cruising and Living on the Boat

[sailorboy1]

For planners, budgeters, wannabes, and hecklers below is real amount spent in month 68 of living and cruising on my boat. Included in this month is a haul out and bottom painting and a week condo stay vacation.

•General Living - Food, soda, alcohol, clothing, sundries, other - $ 965.50
•Boat costs - upgrades, repairs, maintenance - $ 2,369.73 Haul out/launch, power wash, blocking, environmental fee $561.97. Sanding and bottom paint not including paint $850.50. Yard labor to remove and install cutlass bearing $295.63. Three nights in motel because of heat and paint fumes $277.52. Shaft coupling that I didn’t use and will return $143
•Fuel (diesel, gas, propane) - $ 9.81
•Dining and drinking out - $ 1,196.06. Week vacation plus more eating out while boat hauled out
•Entertainment - $ 256.70
•Communication, storage, shipping - $ 97.50
•Fees - $ (70.28) money back on credit card
•Marina - $ 357.51
•Electric - $ 31.19
•Medical - $ 31.19
•Transportation and travel - $ 587.98. Gas to go on vacation and 2 tires for car
•Boat Insurance - $ 83.08

Total for the month $6,104.95

This is how I spent MY money. Feel free to change numbers etc. as you desire to get an answer you like

[bensolomon]

Thanks for this! Extremely helpful to get real world longitudinal data about the actual costs of cruising.

[Time Theory]

Thanks for sharing the very detailed breakdown of costs? Seems like you got a good deal on the cutlass bearing labor. I always thought the labor charges for something like that would be much higher.

[Bill O]

I see I wasn't close with my wild (hopeful) guess!

[sailorboy1]

Originally Posted by Bill O

I see I wasn't close with my wild (hopeful) guess!

It would have been close without the haulout etc

[Celestialsailor]

Yup...a haul out will do it every time. I was lucky that in cruising Mexico for 3 years never did a haul out, other than storing the boat and sold the vessel before I had to do a major bottom job. I'm not a drinker or entertainment hound...(ya I know, boring). I did spend money on a slip at $525@month as I recall because I thought I would splurge on something and not have to haul water. My average per month was around $900@month while the cruising season was open. Then there was off season when I hauled out for $140@month. But then you have haul out fees for storage, boat upgrades and of course Busing into Mananaland twice during the off season. Average monthly then was around $400@month. This was 2014-2016 inclusive.

[JC Reefer]

As always, thank you for putting this effort together. I have used your template to begin my budget/forecasting. I’m sure others, many others have gained from your openness.

Thank you sailorboy.