If one ignores at the high end the super yachts and at the low end the small recreational open
boats (hobie and such) and defined a “normal” yacht as being 2 to 10 sleeper, under $5m (good enough cut-off???) : how many are there globally?
It seems hard to find good data. Playing with registers and making assumptions I think around 3 million if include the inland lake yachts.
Why? Partly for interest but also trying to understand why StarLink is being so short-sighted with their packages for us normal people.
If I use a SL Mini bobbing about in
Indian Ocean I am probably one of 12 vessels that the virtually idle SL
satellite can see and I must pay $250pm for 50Gb not able to pause the subscription, while an RV parked in
New Jersey pays $100 for unlimited.