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Category: Finance

Provisioning Cost

  • By Christa Greer
  • February 15, 2019
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In our previous post we looked at all those items we purchased beyond the large systems we had installed at the boat yard. In this post we look at how … Continue Reading

Purchase Price and Admin Costs for Buying our Boat

  • By John Casey
  • February 9, 2019
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In our previous post, we looked at “how” we decided to pay for the boat. In this post we’ll cover “what” we paid, and we’ll try and cover all the … Continue Reading

How To Pay For The Boat

  • By John Casey
  • February 7, 2019
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The decision to buy a suitable boat for living aboard or cruising will be a major financial transaction on the scale of buying a house. Whether we’re talking about a … Continue Reading

The Cost of Buying and Selling our Boat

  • By John Casey
  • February 5, 2019
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As we sit in South Florida cowering from the cold and snow up north, we are fortunate enough to have some friends in the area with boats that are very … Continue Reading

(Additional) Costs of Buying a Boat

  • By Christa Greer
  • July 15, 2017
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When buying a boat, you soon come to realize that the purchase price is only a portion of the actual cost. We also have to budget for the little additional … Continue Reading

Back to Work!

  • By Christa Greer
  • April 1, 2017
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Wow some things happen in a hurry! When we decided that John was definitely going to retire this year, I contacted my employer to tell them we would be returning … Continue Reading

Selling Our Stuff

  • By John Casey
  • January 15, 2017
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Its been almost exactly six months since we posted about our decision to start deliberately unloading our stuff here, with a follow up post here. On top of the money … Continue Reading

What We Spent During Our Charter

  • By Christa Greer
  • December 31, 2016
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Today I sat down to tally our receipts from our charter, which covered everything from provisioning before we left to buying drinks ashore. When all is said and done, it was a bit surprising … Continue Reading

Getting Rid of Our Stuff – Part 2

  • By John Casey
  • August 27, 2016
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Similar to our first post here, we’ve had some pretty good luck selling our stuff since we moved to Colorado Springs. It really is surprising how much money you have locked-up … Continue Reading

Getting Rid of Our Stuff

  • By John Casey
  • July 10, 2016
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Much has been written on other sailing blogs, and those associated with “smaller” living, about getting rid of your unnecessary stuff. Included in this is to first stop buying more … Continue Reading

Cruising Cost(s)

  • By Christa Greer
  • February 4, 2016
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 So we want to retire on a sailboat, a catamaran to be specific, and to be even more precise, likely a Lagoon 440 or 450. We just returned from a Christmas … Continue Reading

Leap Of Faith: Quit Your Job and Live on a Boat

  • By John Casey
  • October 2, 2014
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Ok, so I should have paid more attention to the number of pages in this book before I bought it. It’s just wee. Less than 130 pages. Now, as far … Continue Reading

Live On The Margin

  • By John Casey
  • June 6, 2014
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I just finished another book called Live On The Margin by Patrick Schulte and Nick O’Kelly. Patrick has a blog (and book) called Bumfuzzle, and Nick wrote another book which … Continue Reading

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