Well it's that time of year again. We're looking forward to doing our taxes and reviewing our yearly budget for owning a 32' sailboat for weekend get aways. We have been keeping tabs on what we spend in the hopes that it will help us plan for when we live aboard. We have just over 1 year left before we finally leave our slip in Pecan Grove for good and we want to make sure we know how much it's going to cost us to have this adventure.
We were actually pretty close to last year's monthly spending. In 2015 we averaged $2,118.46 a month and $2,144.52 in 2016. We did have a pretty significant refit in 2016 when we hauled out at Sailcraft Service Marina. Along with the myriad of projects completed we had some dingy davits installed for over $6,000.00. If we just remove the davit install we would be close to the $1,600.00 I was hoping to hit for our monthly average. We will be doing more work to Starjewel in 2017 to keep her ship shape for living aboard, but I don't think it will be anywhere near the investment. Hopefully 2017 will be a bit more kind to our finances as we get ready to move aboard.
You can see our 2016 yearly totals here. You can also check out our month to month breakdowns of our cost of sailing for 2015 here.
We were actually pretty close to last year's monthly spending. In 2015 we averaged $2,118.46 a month and $2,144.52 in 2016. We did have a pretty significant refit in 2016 when we hauled out at Sailcraft Service Marina. Along with the myriad of projects completed we had some dingy davits installed for over $6,000.00. If we just remove the davit install we would be close to the $1,600.00 I was hoping to hit for our monthly average. We will be doing more work to Starjewel in 2017 to keep her ship shape for living aboard, but I don't think it will be anywhere near the investment. Hopefully 2017 will be a bit more kind to our finances as we get ready to move aboard.
You can see our 2016 yearly totals here. You can also check out our month to month breakdowns of our cost of sailing for 2015 here.