Let's get real and break it down. We've been livng aboard Balachandra for 1 full year here in the North Atlantic and we're ready to share what it actually co...

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probably THE most common question that

we've had since we started all this is

what does it cost to live on a boat. I

get asked that at least once a day

numbers! budgets! numbers! charts! graphs! ..

math! let's crunch some of these and

answer some of your questions. Yeah you

might save all this money to go buy a

boat and then find out that you don't

have enough or 'you didn't expect this!'

and 'didn't expect that'! There's all

these other expenses involved with

buying a boat people don't realize right

away so we're gonna share all that

with you guys as well as give you a

rough estimate as to how much it'll cost

you to live on a boat full-time for one

year. Pre boat buying expenses... before I

bought the boat I needed a few things so

that I could bring the boat home so I

took a VHF course. There's a boating card that I had to get here in Canada and so

that was the first thing.

So all that came to about $140. So

let's talk about buying the boat and

bringing the boat home. When I bought the

boat I had to rent a crane which was

expensive! Where I bought the boat they

didn't have a travel lift and they were

getting repairs done to their railway

launch so we had to get a crane.. and I

had to raise the mast and I paid for my

marine survey. We had to get a mechanical

inspection done on the engine and I had to

pay to have the cradle brought home to

Nova Scotia on a flatbed truck. When I

got here I realized I had skids to put

on the cradle because of the way they

launched boats at our marina so I had to

pay for that... So are skids like a

form of sliding the boat? If the marina

you want to join has cradles that get

pushed around by a tractor like ours

then you might need skids. We've got

boat insurance... and I hired a captain to

bring the boat home so all told it cost

me five thousand six hundred and eighty

three dollars to bring the boat home. That

really sucks.. when you purchased the boat

it wasn't already in the water. like you

had all these additional fees.. All

these costs are factors if a boat's not

in the water you might have to pay for

that. If you want a sea trial, you

know, you might have to get the mast put up and

there's a cost of that. All right next

topic: Extras for trip home; so when I

bought the boat it didn't have all the

things I needed to get it home. Tt had no

actual chartplotter or navigation system

so I wanted to do it the cheap route and

I knew that I could use a tablet so we

picked up a tablet that I could put

Navionics on and I wanted Navionics HD. it's

it's a better vesion of navionics I also

bought Navionics from my phone because I

wanted a backup.. The Android tablet

pretty much takes a half hour to

actually boot up! Well not anymore..no you

always say you think we fixed it but

it's not fixed folks it's not! The mobile

came in handy like it was handy to have

the mobile I strongly suggest you get it

you should always have backups for

backups especially with your charts you

should have paper charts as well but

yeah the more options the better

obviously. So we had to buy a mount for

the tablet so I could put it on my

binnacle and and I had to pick up all

new foul weather gear because guess what? ..

I didn't have any. ..and it's essential

crossing the Atlantic. We were going 300

nautical miles and crossing the Bay of

Fundy on the way home the weather didn't

look great so the foul weather gear

actually came in handy. The total for

extras for the trip home is $747

so let's

talk about what it costs to live on a

boat full-time obviously there's going

to be Club fees you might even have to

pay a club membership depending on where

you go but usually if you want to live

on a boat in the winter in Canada

there's no way you're gonna be able to

do it unless you're at a marina that has

a bubbler or a bubble maker or some kind

of de-icer.. otherwise.. I feel much safer.

Yeah but you're like 'safety Dan' right?

You really are though.. you're always on

top of things.

Hey that's not a bad thing! No it's Not.

Winter Power Bill? Marinas still

charge for power. Yeah we thought we

were gonna get away with it last year

but no we got a bill we ran the

furnace for seven months off and on.

Yeah that's where diesel comes in. Yep so

I would run down to the gas station and

fill up diesel maybe every week or two. I

think on average when I worked it out is

about $20 a week. So Dan and I like to

splurge on our groceries I know that I'm

a foodie and Dan enjoys the fact that

I'm a foodie so typically at we are

spending $40 a week. I think what you're

saying is we eat more in the winter. I mean

you're like in hibernation mode you live

on a boat.. drink wine.. laundry well hey

free laundry baby! so Dan and I we're

both born and raised here and our

parents are close by so.. Thank you

mom! I go to the laundromat sometimes.

sometimes.. my parents aren't that close I

have to drive a few hours.

we wanted to

haul out in the spring

and we're going to haul out again next spring just to clean the bottom

I mean there's only a lot of sludge there it's voting for

independence. I don't want to haul it but

he's insisting that we do yeah but we

just hauled out. Yeah check out this

episode. Click here! so the full cost

of living on the boat for a full winter

full time is $4030 there's seven months now do the

math in your head.

It's beats rent. It totally beats right oh

absolutely and I'm sure that you guys

could probably find a way to do this

even cheaper if you don't mind you know

substituting heat for blankets

we didn't include much for summer but

the cost of a summer mooring here is

about 600 bucks we paid it last year

they didn't put us on a mooring so

altogether if you want to live on a boat

like live on a boat and travel in it and

just like be detached just get away from

it all is eleven thousand and two

hundred dollars to start up to buy a

boat and live on it for one year and

you're going to buy the boat it's it's

not just what's on the price tag keep

that in mind before you before you jump

at a boat that you like just kind of the

price. So that's it! there you have it !if

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