Prestige Car Vs Yacht?
Discussion
Been walking around the docks today, and I noticed the huge amount of £150k + yachts moored up. Seeing that many expensive yachts in one place got me thinking, whats the ratio of supercars in this country to the number of yachts.
Surely the majority of people would buy a F430 or the like before blowing that kind of money on a bathtub. Which means there must be a huge number of supercars laid up in garages never getting used.
Surely the majority of people would buy a F430 or the like before blowing that kind of money on a bathtub. Which means there must be a huge number of supercars laid up in garages never getting used.
Done the Yacht thing, in fact lived on one for three years in the Caribbean which was absolutely fantastic. Because we were living aboard and not spending anything else on rubbish like council tax and robbing land taxes, it was not that expensive. However the old adage applies the happiest day of my life was when I bought our Yacht, the next happiest was when we sold it 
cars sell quicker than yachts / boats, but also depreciate faster. Fewer people buy boats because they are more technical and unless you live by the sea are not so often used when compared to a car in the garage.
I would compare boats / yachts to planes.....how many people will spend money learning to fly then buying a single engine plane compared to buying a decent boat.
A new yacht will cost way more than a car...£150 k that's not a yacht!!
I would compare boats / yachts to planes.....how many people will spend money learning to fly then buying a single engine plane compared to buying a decent boat.
A new yacht will cost way more than a car...£150 k that's not a yacht!!
It depends what you mean by yacht.
You can run a boat you could live on and sail around the world with if you're prepared to put in a lot of work yourself. When you aren't prepared to put in the work, then it gets stupidly stupidly expensive.
When you start talking over 60ft or so, that's when you're talking big potatoes IMO.
I have a cousin who runs a 55ft (w/o bowsprit) yawl and he does that without throwing excess cash at it. That'll sleep 8 ok.
Or are we talking ships?
Now, helicopters, talk about owning one of those and paying a man to deal with it.
You can run a boat you could live on and sail around the world with if you're prepared to put in a lot of work yourself. When you aren't prepared to put in the work, then it gets stupidly stupidly expensive.
When you start talking over 60ft or so, that's when you're talking big potatoes IMO.
I have a cousin who runs a 55ft (w/o bowsprit) yawl and he does that without throwing excess cash at it. That'll sleep 8 ok.
Or are we talking ships?
Now, helicopters, talk about owning one of those and paying a man to deal with it.
Question - how do you fix a hole in your boat
Answer - same way you fix anything else on it, keep stuffing $50 notes in the hole until the water stops coming in!
$150k does not get you much by way of a newish yacht / boat. Maybe less than 5 years old and 30 - 35 foot. This is more like a floating caravan.
Move up to an entery level sports car comparison and you need to be spending $350k ++
for supercar comparisons we are talking millions (and lots of them!!!)
Answer - same way you fix anything else on it, keep stuffing $50 notes in the hole until the water stops coming in!
$150k does not get you much by way of a newish yacht / boat. Maybe less than 5 years old and 30 - 35 foot. This is more like a floating caravan.
Move up to an entery level sports car comparison and you need to be spending $350k ++
for supercar comparisons we are talking millions (and lots of them!!!)
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