chris wrote:

Dear Skip:

I have followed your search for the perfect boat intermittently over
the months.
Anyone with such obvious record keeping skills should have also
calculated the following:

Time
1) "literature review" total hours (lost hours sailing).........
2) travel time to view boats (lost hours sailing)…..............

Money
1) transportation costs..........................................
2) professional services costs...................................
3) per diem.............................................. ........
4) marital counseling and divorce................................

So what is the amount that you are going to ADD to the purchase price
of the perfect boat to reveal its Total Purchase Price?

The longer you wait the more it is going to cost.

We did a similar search about a decade ago: Whenever the weather was
less than fun, we went looking at what could be the next boat rather
than getting wet and cold on the water. Trivial actual costs over a
sailing day and it decreased the costs of #4. Only Xan grabbed our
interest. Except for her, we'd have probably have continued with the
boat we had.

The process of finding the next boat can be fun. Thus, many of the costs
you list may be meaningless. Some of the steps can be done when sailing
isn't a meaningful option.

--
Jere Lull
Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html
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