How much does it cost to live aboard?
As you might guess, that depends a great deal on your lifestyle. On the one extreme, you could run your Bertram 60 1,800 horsepower twin diesel motor yacht at full speed every day, hire someone to fix it whenever the tiniest thing broke, glide into a commercial slip every night, take a taxi to a recommended five-star restaurant and go back to your boat to make $ 5 per minute phone calls to all your friends. That kind of lifestyle, of course, would cost huge bucks. On the other extreme, if you do all your repairs, prepare all your food, use native foods instead of looking for stuff you’re used to eating, anchor in a deserted cove every night, and replace only the most vital components, you could spend less. A lot less. In fact, it could cost substantially less to live on a boat than it does for you to live at home, what with running your car, keeping your house heated and cooled, and eating out every day because you don’t have time to cook. Latitude 38 magazine did a survey of cruising
