Month 6 Expenses & Costs of Cruising

[Caliber40]

Originally Posted by sailjumanji

Conch fritters, conch salad, fried snapper, coconut bread, Ricardo rum.

Peas and rice and are you forgetting lobster cooked 10 different ways!!!

[sailjumanji]

Originally Posted by Caliber40

Peas and rice and are you forgetting lobster cooked 10 different ways!!!

Damn, I did forget peas and rice. But when we were there, lobster was closed season.

[SV Bacchus]

Originally Posted by sailjumanji

I also view going ashore and walking the cay, eating out, etc., as part of the cruising experience. You meet the locals this way. Worry about saving money and eating cheaply when you get home.

I'm all about that!

[sailjumanji]

Oh, and so you won't be surprised, "peas" are brown, not green.

[LoudMusic]

In your previous threads it seems you've put each month's entire "boat maintenance and repairs" costs into the singular month. I would be interested to see those costs amortized over the months they were effective, along with some other items in your list. Do you plan to do anything like that when you have more data/time recorded?

[Symphony]

Forget beer and wine until further south. Just drink Ricardo rum. It is a little rough for the first glass only.

Thanks for posting the data!

[Jason Flare]

Beer in a bar in Key West ranges from $3.75 to $4.50. (non Happy Hour prices)

That's $90.00 to $108.00 per 24 bottles.

[brownoarsman]

Dough in the crab, salt beef. Those you usually won't find in the restaurants though, got to go to a festival.

[MarkJ]

Originally Posted by sailjumanji

I also view going ashore and walking the cay, eating out, etc., as part of the cruising experience. You meet the locals this way. Worry about saving money and eating cheaply when you get home.

The moment they drag me off the boat and put me in a nursing home I am gunna save like hell.

Try floating through a French island and not eating in a restaurant...

[chuckr]

Originally Posted by LoudMusic

In your previous threads it seems you've put each month's entire "boat maintenance and repairs" costs into the singular month. I would be interested to see those costs amortized over the months they were effective, along with some other items in your list. Do you plan to do anything like that when you have more data/time recorded?

we do the same - called cash accounting - what comes in what goes out that month -

[carstenb]

3 months in the southern caribbean and averaging about $3000US per month

aside from on Martinique - wine (cheapest chilesan) cost 25/30 ECD per bottle (USD10). Beer is running anywhere from 1USD to 2USD per can in a supermarket.

Lettuces cost bout USD5-6 per head for a miserable head. Gin is $20+USD when you can get it.

Stock up on everything you can on Martinique.

Water cost about 25cents US per liter (a buck a gallon) so a spectra 200 as we have pays for itself pretty quickly

[MamaKube]

Thanks for the post!
We are heading back to the Bahamas this summer with friends. Your breakdown confirms my plan to stock well in Florida, particularly the liquids!

[a64pilot]

At a $1 a gallon, somebody is making good money on water

[carstenb]

Originally Posted by a64pilot

At a $1 a gallon, somebody is making good money on water

Most of these islands down here have no indigenous water - all water is either collected rainfall or in some cases desalinated or shipped in from larger islands with indigenous water

[a64pilot]

Originally Posted by carstenb

Most of these islands down here have no indigenous water - all water is either collected rainfall or in some cases desalinated or shipped in from larger islands with indigenous water

I know, but you can purchase and operate a desalination unit and make a very good profit at $1 a gl. I'd suspect actual cost of "making" water on a decently large scale or be 1/10 or less than that?