My mate had a 60ft yacht that he used for Tuna fishing in the Caribbean, he reckoned he went through about $40k worth of fuel in a 3 day dash once.....so multiply that by a LOT.

On Average 15% running cost per year of the purchase price for powerboat, sail = 10%
Give you a clue last one I ran burnt through 75 gal per hour running hard, but a lot of time down to 20 pottering. That was twin 700hp and at the time I was buying fuel in the US Virgin Islands at $1.27 a U.S gal.
Another a spend time on did 200 gal per hr running flat twin 2000hp,that was in the Med so expensive.
Dockage is a killer depending on where you go. Crew say 10 on 150ft -170ft. Skippers wages alone will be $1000 / 1000 Euro per ft length of boat. Chef half to three quarters of that and the chief engineer the same.
If the boats charter and have a good season they can claw a good amount back. A week on a 180 ft a have on the books is $265,000 a week to charter.
Shamelss plug http://www.toplineyachtcharters.com/motoryacht.htm

Of course the truly frightening thing about the costs is that the owners more than likely have 'a few' of these.


I am sure someone can give some broadbrush costs.

Didn't it used to be a good benchmark for a new one at £1m per metre ?

Buy a copy of Boat International (if you can afford too ! ) for some frighteners !

I read a an article about one of the Sultan of Brunei's superyachts and how his crew all ended up quitting after 3 or 4 years.

The reason was, that it had never left the dock and he had never visited it!

yes its nice and very big, but why have 2 helicopters and 2 submarine on a yacht

Lone Ranger would take 250,000 US gallons, and burn 24 ton a day if we run her at 16knts.
I run a 87 ft plastic fantastic now, (and go home every evening) with 2 X 2000hp MTU's, she burns about 90 ltrs an hour each at 12-13knts, but at 24 knts she's burning 400 ltrs an hour each.
10,000 ltrs can be gone in 3 days of fast cruising.
Then we have to spend 3 hours filling the thing up.

After a refit in Miami, we filled Lone Ranger up with 24 artic trucks, two at a time, and it took 24 hours.

You don't need a lot of money. You need too much money!

mickrick What plastic fanatastic you on now ?. I took a Ferretti 88 through the Med the other year with 2x2000hp MTU ( Actually the picture is first one on the boat pic thread). Not sure what yours is like but running flat at 35 knots it would 100 gal a side per hr. 9000 lt fill up from memory.

The old Horizon 70 a ran had oversize tanks it took over 3000 gal, but it used sit very low when full, with swim platform slamming in any ripple on anchor.

What boat do you guys work on?

Mike

THAT ^^^^ is Luuuuurvely.

There's one in Southampton at the moment, an absolutely great all rounder yacht with sensational looks - v envious!