From what I've seen of charter prices and what I paid for my boat,
chartering would be too expensive for more then 2~3 sails per season.

Scotty

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:12:46 -0600, Jim Cate said:

Maybe, but I can charter a number of different boats
of various sizes for a few hundred dollars and see all the moonlit
nights and sunny days and secluded anchorage's I want to.

Having spent a number of years as a boat owner, a number of later years as
a
non-owner, and now having bought again, I can tell you that while
chartering
may seem to make sense in the abstract, in practice you prolly won't do
it.
In the years when I had my previous boat I was on the water nearly every
weekend the weather allowed. During the years as a non-owner I chartered
exactly once and was able to sail 4 days out of a 7 day charter. There's a
big difference between just driving down to the boat on a Friday night,
and
making all the needed arrangements for a charter.


Dave
S/V Good Fortune
CS27