No doubt the cost to
cruise rests with how you want to live. A wonderful lady cruiser here in
Australia lives on a shoestring of about $17,000 per year, while retired friends of hers " exist on about $11,000 & $5,000 each! My plan is to return to
living aboard in
retirement on approx $25,000
income which seems to equate well especially having the experience of sailing around the world in early ninties spending no more than $10,000 per yr over the 6 years we were away!
Society today it seems to me is in a steep decline regarding quality of life living for low
income people with pensioners here in WA unable to afford their basic staples of
heating and
power bills and general expenses. Not for me, I'll go sailing and be self contained as far as possible in preparation for the finacial mayhem to come. See you out there!