Cost To Operate

[Thornton69]

Since they say beauty is in the eye of beholder, I will include our 42 year old girl. We are in the 8-10k range annually. That is all in including the trailer, towing, fuel, fishing gear and maintenance. It used to be a fair bit more, but a second smaller boat has knocked down our annual use from over 70 days, down to around 30.
We do harvest a lot of fresh seafood with it, so with that being over $70/kg, it quickly turns into a wash. The fishing/trapping is probably only on half of our outings. The rest are a bonus.

 

[Pirate Lady]

The phrase with boat ownership is you can buy it, sure, but can you afford it.

OH, I am using that line.

 

[mrsrobinson]

When people ask me I reply with what it costs me to do nothing, not use it, just to keep the boat. To me that is the slip and Insurance, which is about $8000 a year for me. To use it (fuel and transient slip fees only) I am guessing $12K to $15K a year. Repairs? Who knows. Regular maintenance like bottom paining, about $4k every 2 years. I try to do most of my own, so it's mostly parts. Upgrading something "because I can, not because I have to", who knows.

I do keep a spreadsheet of all of the costs; more for me to know what's been done, part #'s, costs, etc. and perhaps for a future owner. I have no interest in seeing the total.

 

[Stray Current]

I dumped almost 50k into mine after buying it in 2019, and that was before I put one of the 500 some hours on it and all the other maintenance and repairs along the way.

I really don’t want to know. I know my cost of operation is through the roof here in Cape Coral since you can’t do shit to your own boat on your own property as far as service work. I had to have a bottom job done and it was almost 8k!

I think it’s about 1k/month just to sit in the water before operating though, barring any repairs that pop up.

 

[ZZ13]

I’m at $15,000 a year just to look at my boat (slip fees, insurance, personal property tax, bottom paint) sitting in salt water 24/7. I do save a few pennies doing the in water bottom cleaning myself. Now to actually keep it working and use it, we’ll I don’t want to know that (although I have a detailed record of every maintenance and repair cost since ownership - just never have added it up).