Q&A - How Much Does it Cost to Sail Around the World?

We want to thank you for all the questions we've received, over 100. It's crazy, you guys are so curious, that's great. I've had a lot of fun answering these questions. She cut my hair. She really forgot. to cut the top off and now it's falling to the side so excuse the hair it's a style it's called a hairstyle we will randomly choose some of the questions the first question today was what is your favorite food besides tuna . I took it out to do it today, really? Yes, we have Annie's. No, I don't have anything. We have not had a decent Panama.

Annie's is like an organic Kraft dinner. Yes, it's really good. Incredible. I think I had a dream about that last time. The night we are actually in Palau and in this back cove we think it was a B-52 bomber accident there we think it is a big plane huge planes there was a big war in Palau like World War II the end of World War II there is like shelves everywhere and at this end of this little bay there's a huge plane that we think is a plane, let's go check it out what's the best part of our day when we're angry, that's a tough question, man like a Sometimes it's morning coffee and other times it's like this, you're in an amazing place, wow, second, our ship is right here and there's no one else around, just the unknowns, the lack of formula, the lack of routine.

I think it's really valuable because it gives you the opportunity to have new experiences and memorable moments, because anything that happens within a routine is its own thing, like when you get on the bus, you go to work, you get into this routine and if you leave , That routine is where all the interesting things happen, so I think that's a big part of it too and then for me, sometimes, a lot of times, the best part of the day is falling asleep before your head hits the pillow , which is a good sign that you have had a good day of your life.

What do we have here? you splashed sure so we're not sure what this is it looks like the wings of an airplane it could be the fuselage it's like a propeller right here Although it's like the propeller of an airplane, it's quite different when it's a ship. Do we ever fight? The highs are high here and the lows are very low. They can't escape from each other. It's more difficult here. Do you think it's more difficult? I don't think it's harder, yes you can close a door but you can't get off the boat, that's a good and bad thing, you'll have to face the problem and solve it, yes, and you need to find tools so I don't know.

We had some tools before we left counseling and then we didn't like the coach and did some life coaching students working with a coach to make our goals a reality. This cave has all these drums and fuel containers. from World War II Anna I'm not crazy, okay, I'm mating in the cave. What is the best part of my day? Do something crazy every day. Something that makes you a little nervous. A little apprehensive. I also enjoy my morning coffee and not dying. by stepping on a mine, so let's go look at this, tons and tons of barrels of fuel.

I'm treading carefully, luckily there are no bats, yes this is a huge cave, although it is absolutely crazy, check it out. There has been at the end. Can you believe it? I'm a little nervous here. I don't know why old war things, unexploded mines on these islands. Yes, I'm going to tread carefully and I think I'll back off. This is great, quite outrageous, like the next question. please Oh, what about drones? What's up with that? Have you lost any drones while recording images for your channel? If so, do you have a backup in case you lose one?

I've lost my drone twice, both times I rolled it back into a cliff, the problem with drones is that you get a little cocky with them outside your wall and then your wife sends you to the bedroom to look for them, what's wrong with the another curious thing? Do we have a backup? It sounds like you're going to like a park. and I go to the beach, do we have a backup? Yeah, so we bought a backup drone, a DJI phantom4, because I looked at all the specs and it was fine for what I do and the Phantom 4 has the legs, for sure.

Are you holding a camera? Yes, man. Phantom 4 has legs so you can capture it better from the boat. The Mavic only has the body without legs. You point the camera that way. I'm here, no, this is better, both. In it, yes, how

much

water

does

a water treatment plant produce? How many liters do we use per day? I use a lot. Our water maker produces between 60 and 70 liters per hour and we probably use around 50 liters and outside of a day some days. You can use a lot less if we don't shower

much

, this broke because of the way everything breaks in the can, if I do a wash it's like a total, I know 50 liters, the wash uses more, even washing clothes by hand is a lot. of water, but generally life without washing clothes is about 50 liters a day and in fact the water purifiers are working right now because we have full sun and the solar panels are generating mega amps right now, so It's good, maybe you're just going to move. anchor right here, but one of the questions was if we like our boat and would we buy a lagoon 410 again.

There are a couple of things, so actually this is the anchor locker up here and then on this side is the

sail

locker and Usually you have a generator here, we don't have a generator and that's the only thing we miss . Did you make hot grannies Ash look amazing? We had a guy on the boat the other day and the trip was going to eat up when I was like Dhoni. what is soil these are not brownies they are soil turns the first time I use these soil turns they are working pretty well one is this is going to be my herb garden it's been almost five days I already have a spray I think it's cilantro, but one of the things we miss the most here are vegetables like kale lettuce.

Sometimes it totally depends on where you are. Sometimes you can't get anything green except a pumpkin. This is my way of getting some herbs in my life I don't like bugs have another question, one of the questions we were asked is if a 50 foot catamaran is too big for the two of us, what is ok with you? I bet I just got this shirt and then he says it's like a Jimmy. Buffett shirt, oh yes, it's my Hawaii print shirt that everyone needs in Hawaii, sir, definitely not, but you don't need it, you don't need 50 feet, but it's certainly not too big.

I have a theory that it's too big when it needs to be. extra crew to

sail

it, but if you don't need an extra cruise and it's not too big and 50', we know people who sail with two kids on a 50' boat to our 52' ​​lagoon and a 50' lagoon as well Yes, no problem, but we also have friends in a lagoon 45 with two children and they have guests and it is also perfectly fine. It's a good size, 50 feet, you would still fit in there. It's definitely not too big. Today we are going for a walk and we are searching. a new Anchorage and we're just checking out some interesting places because this is what the Rocky Islands are all about, it's all these little bits of Rylands and then tiny little passages as we go, we look at this, it looks pretty cool, hey.

I have a knot right there that you want to go through, which could be an amazing Anchorage there. I'm not sure we'll fit together. I have to get this drone down, but what I think I mention here, as well as the larger one. the higher the maintenance

cost

of the boat, that's why they say the maintenance

cost

of a boat is about 15 to 20 percent of the value of the boat each year, so if you buy 50 foot boats, let's say for a million dollars or whatever. It cost you a hell of a lot more than, say, FF 45 at half a million or forty-one feet at I don't know a few hundred thousand or a hundred and fifty thousand, so yeah, you have to think about the actual maintenance of these. boats, that's probably your biggest expense in the future.

Okay, under this drone. There are birds swarming there. What type of courses do you need to start sailing? Don't do this at home. The best teacher has experience, so Ben and I. We were both failed instructors so we knew how to sail and we had licenses to teach sailing, which is great, so we were really amazing at teaching how to attack and tack in terms of courses that you might want to take, maybe they're big boat courses, yeah. take a course if you've never sailed the day before in your life take a course do it on a lake take it wherever you are learn to talk and drive and what the difference is and where the winds come from and how to set your We'll teach you sails for points appropriate wind speeds, but you know, of course, two could be great.

I think they will help you calm your nerves, so when you get to a place like this and want to pass. You don't have to think about where to do it, what is sailing, do I have up and where am I going to go in terms of other courses. Ben took a diesel mechanics course and that's it, we didn't take any sailing course so we took a whaling course, that's a lie, we took a course on weather and between the weather they're sucking us in from all around the edges, like this that if the diesel mechanics who sail totally think our value is enormous, those are the ones we did and others, I would do our medical exam, perhaps sailing. maybe, and if you've never driven a boat in your life, you might want to give it a try.

Well, I mean, there are a lot of questions. The largest group of these revolve around peer relationships, safety, and medications. The funny thing about fear is that once you've done it. once is easier the second time the second time you are in a big storm or big seas you always compare it to the last time you were in that big storm big season you always say it wasn't as bad as the last time Another funny thing about fear is that if you don't understand something, it's often scarier than you think, so if you don't know how to navigate but your partner

does

, you'll probably be more afraid than your partner because he understands. the limitations more than you if there are two people in a relationship both people know how to steer the boat know both people know how to sail the boat both people know how to fix things more or less at least if necessary now that doesn't It doesn't mean I'm responsible of the engine and that Ben will never be in charge of the refrigerator, but it does mean that we both understand how you know the refrigerator works to cool the beer and the engine works to check the oil ice.

You give a couple of nudes just starting out with only two summers of experience sailing in a 25-foot hand and five years away from leaving it all behind sailing away. Jesco will still enjoy your summer boating, have fun doing it, enjoy that 25 -foot mono it's fun, it's easy, it's like camping, it's beautiful if you don't need to do anything, just get a little experience, research what systems you want to install when you finally get your big boat and yes, getting out, the biggest problem. what your systems are on the boat, you won't learn them by sitting on a dock, you need to use your watermaker, you need to use a reef, you need to calculate your solar and power consumption, you need to calculate the toilets of your Septic engines, there are so many things, yeah, figure it out, just get out, could you postpone night sailing to stay longer in one place before doing it or maybe do it to avoid an approaching storm system that would set you back in an area longer than you can? stay Petra, I love the night roof, you can put on like a movie and relax and look at the stars, yeah, and you know, if you're really uncomfortable with that, hire a crew member for the first one, don't stress about it . eventually you have to do them if you want to go long distances, we're driving into a rock so we just have to back up, you know, night shifts are amazing, they give you an experience that you wouldn't get otherwise, which is watching. up to the stars and just watching the Milky Way explode from one horizon to the other and then seeing shooting stars literally every five or ten seconds like kaboom kaboom kaboom it's crazy, it's amazing.

I listen to a lot of podcasts on the night shift. I don't know what you do, you sleep, no podcasts, they're great, movies, TV shows, yeah, just relax, sometimes I bake, it doesn't really matter, sometimes I do yoga if you're a little scared at night and I try to do a complete passage. moon because it's like it's completely lit just make sure the weather is good and the full moon is good and maybe make a shorter one to start with and you'll do amazing and then you'll love how when it's really dark the waves look bigger the wind seems stronger everything seems stronger so the boat creaks I thought hmmm I think the question is if it's hard to stay motivated no, that's happening there okay, is it hard to stay motivated during the trip doing shift work?

We do six-hour shifts, which is totally strange. I think here most people do three to four hours, not all, yes, no, but we like a full half night to sleep better. No, it's not hard to stay motivated, one of the things we do. To keep ourselves motivated we write in our log book, well some of us do it directly in ourrecords to always write in the log book, but now we've gotten a little complacent, but the log book is a great way to keep it when you're starting out. it gives you something to do every 15 minutes or every half hour whenever you want you decide to do it you check all the weather systems all the traffic creates a routine where you haven't had one before and that way it takes away the fear factor and gives you something to do so you don't get bored and then when you're okay, you can put on your podcast and your movies and look at the stars and ignore the rest of the

world

like you do.

Come, no, I actually exercise a lot in the passage. I love it, it's how I keep from falling asleep, whether it's crunches, push-ups, lunges, or something new from TRX. Oh yeah, I have a tiara system that's really simple, it's basically tied up. you have six hours to yourself, when do you normally have six hours to yourself without your wife interrupting you or your kids interrupting you? your boss or the television or some kind of schedule like it's amazing. I love my shift. It's almost night. It's afternoon time here. We want to answer one last question: how much does it cost to sail around the

world

?

Basically, it will cost what you can afford. It all comes down to the standard of living you have now and what you want to maintain while you're here. What we spend may not be what you would spend and it's certainly not what our neighbor now spends and he absolutely doesn't want our other neighbors to go so it's totally subjective but let's talk about what we spend but yeah it's a good beginning. We may be frugal but not too frugal. We experience the places and Ben is right about that. So you're sailing around the world. You are on the trip of your life.

What are you going to do? Are you going to live on pasta? and not experience anything or you're really going to be in the Galapagos and visit the gauntlet. I assume you are browsing right next to it. Are you going to stop there? It's hard to stop there. That's a good point and then once you stop. there, what are you going to do to sit on a mooring? No, you're going to want to see the giant tortoises, you're going to want to see the blue-footed booby and all those things that cost money, it costs money to do these tours, so yes, you're going to take the trip of your life.

You could also make a budget. You already know the extras that are going to come up. How much does it cost to maintain the boat?, Maintain our boat and how much does it cost to maintain most boats. The industry standard is 10 to 20% of the boat's value each year. That's a lot. If you do all the work yourself, you'll save a little. If you do all the work, you might spend a little more. that's an average of three years and that's probably what you'll spend, especially if you're selling it, maybe not, if all you do is sit in a harbor and your boat never leaves the dog, however, if you're sailing oceans and you wear jeans put in systems and have a lot of things like we have, unfortunately, if you move your boat, yeah, a lot like we do, then it's going to cost you more, so yeah, that's a pretty good number and in terms of living expenses, how much does it cost?

It costs between thirty and forty thousand dollars a year again for us, but it depends on where you sail, so if some places are more expensive than others, for example Tonga, a pretty cheap place to sail when we get to Southeast Asia, I think that too it's going to be pretty cheap right now in Palau it's a little bit more expensive, it's just that there are things that are affordable, the food is pretty expensive here, and the West Marine boats here and by the way, the defender is usually a lot cheaper than West Marine SOI West Marine, but we don't.

I have one of those fancy accounts like West Marine that's like a corporate account, the only other thing I would add in terms of living expenses is that you should probably go by the number you're spending right now and understand the gist of it. The issue is The food is a little more expensive or a little less expensive here, but in some ways it is average and if you buy some imported things, which is practically necessary if you want to eat moderately like you do at home, then you are going to spend. pretty much the same as you do at home, we don't buy as much meat here as we used to buy some meats at home, no we didn't eat a lot of meat, but we don't buy meat here anymore, I usually eat fish, that cuts some costs , but it's not the most important part, most of it is vegetables, it's like crazy.

I paid $2 and for apples in Papua New Guinea, two dollars per apple. I thought, oh, okay. I'm only buying 20, so I guess what I'm really saying is that you won't stop eating fruits and vegetables once you're here, just because you're on a boat, you'll still have the same diet. I'm not going to be able to just eat, I don't know that people eat fish and pasta, so you can live on a lot less if that's what you really decide you want to do and if that's all you have clothes on, I think you can get it.

Don't spend less on clothes, but buy more swimsuits. What is your other biggest offense? It's the food. I would say the food. And what is the second. A beer. A beer. Thank you to all our customers for sending us almost a hundred questions. It was incredibly amazing. I had a lot of fun answering them. I wrote down all the answers and sent them to you and any other users who can see them on the website. Great, see you next week. Another thing he does when he cuts his hair is he says oh oops oh, it's not good for you to comb your hair.

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