Let me take you back to august 2010 - This was when we started planning our initial maintenance budget. and well...hummm at that time your guess was as good as mine ;)
When we were looking to buy our yacht and prepare for blue water cruising we struggled to find resources on how much money would be required to prepare her, and what would need to done and ,based on that, we are hoping that this may be a help to someone else in the same situation.
To help give you an idea of what work we are capable of and what we needed a professional to do below is a overview of my maintenance abilities:-
- Comfortable with wiring and fair understanding of electronics
- Basic to intermediate mechanical abilities (mostly from fixing my super budget old cars)
- Good woodworking and general maintenance
After doing some research, which involved mainly picking our favourites numbers, reading some tea leaves and consulting our crystal ball, we come up with a budget of £5000 to be our total to make Croc Bones sea worthy.
At the first stage we had our shinny new (old) yacht... and ok she was not yet shiny, but very soon to be. The initial maintenance fund we set out was to include:-
- New Dingy and outboard
- Biminy
- Allowance to replace a electronic navigational devices if found to be faulty
- Replacement of several ropes, such as the main halyard, main and Genoa sheets
- Replace/Recover upholstery and mattresses
- Upgrading charging systems
- General engine maintenance and small repairs
- Minor sail repairs
- General Maintenance
This was the starting point but looking back it seems that the crystal ball betrayed us as we went a little over our initial guestimation....
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