In this video "___" We finally bring you ANOTHER video about the REAL cost of cruising and sailing. We cover what It cost us to sail from Nova Scotia Canada ...

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last time when sailing Bella Chandra we

arrived in the US Virgin Islands which

was a safe location for us during the

corona virus pandemic we stayed in

Charlotte Amalie then sailed to Magens

Bay and then sailed on to Christmas Cove

hi I'm Noel and I'm Dan and we're

sailing Bali Chandra we're from Halifax

Nova Scotia and now we're in the cottage

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press that button in well yeah of all

our videos on YouTube which video that

we posted has the most views currently I

think it is how much it costs to live on

a boat that's right

that video has the most views of all of

our videos and I think what that means

is you guys want to know what things

cost well we know that budget and cost

is a big part of sailing and it was a

surprise to us to realize just how many

people were interested in that so this

week we're gonna cover how much it costs

us to sail from Canada to the Caribbean

so as you can see behind us we're living

in the Caribbean right now and it's

beautiful we did sail here from Canada

there's a lot of different aspects to

our trip and what your trip or a future

trip but we figured that this video will

help give you an outline as to what

those costs may entail for you so

basically this is a video covering the

first two months of our trip which is

very different than what we did living

back in the marina on our last cost

video and we thought because it's so

different this is something we really

need to share with you guys so I hope

you enjoyed this video

pre-departure expenses we have a single

sideband radio and I had to get a ship

stations license here in Canada in order

to legally use the SSB radio so that was

37 dollars we've had boat insurance for

years and back in Nova Scotia I was only

paying about 700 dollars to keep the

boat in a marina but when you travel

south like for us to travel to the

Bahama

there was an add-on cost and so our

insurance to make this trip happen was

$2,100 we thought it'd be a good idea to

get some travel insurance we purchased

six months worth of travel insurance

which came up two thousand three hundred

and five dollars it's always a good idea

to pay for travel insurance especially

when traveling through the state's

ballot chandra has two pretty large fuel

tanks and we have for diesel jerry cans

that we fill up and keep on deck when we

go on trips like this and knowing that

we had such a long distance to go we

wanted to make sure we brought all the

fuel we could we spent $200 on diesel

that was to fill our tank and to fill

all four jerry cans before leaving Nova

Scotia Canada we had spent approximately

$500 worth of food for the passage that

included snacks lots of snacks a lot of

canned goods that you could just crack

up and then heat up over the stove you

know easy grabbing passage food lots of

cookies like your favorite cookies all

those things you want when you're on

passage that you know they're not good

for you but you buy them anyway because

you know that when you're out at sea and

cold you want carbs pop-tarts

and just to get started before we left

Nova Scotia we spent about a hundred and

twenty dollars on boots just a few

things to get us through the first bit

of the trip a couple boxes of wine boxed

wines really big in Canada but we knew

that the alcohol was way cheaper down in

Florida so we saved the big stock up for

later so the grand total for our

pre-departure costs is four thousand two

hundred and sixty two dollars post

departure expenses the fuel that we

bought Nova Scotia got us through the

Gulf of Maine I would say and after that

we had to start buying fuel that we were

purchasing fuel just about every time we

anchored if there was a marina there

altogether between Nova Scotia to

Florida and then across the Gulf Stream

to the Bahamas we spent 902 dollars on

diesel fuel it was a lot of up one

sailing we needed to run the engine or

to point that time of year you know the

weather and sea conditions were totally

against us oh absolutely we were nosed

into the wind like the entire way like

every time you went sailing you were

beating and doing long ridiculous tacks

it was rough and it was cold so we're

moving quickly he ended up not spending

that much time at marinas when we

stopped through places we always tried

to find the best spot to drop an anchor

when that was impossible we would grab a

mooring ball which usually ranged

between 20 and 30 dollars and we've only

actually stayed at a marina and tied up

and plugged in the shore power of once

we spend approximately four days there

we spent three hundred and twenty

dollars on marinas and ninety five

dollars on moorings we made a pact when

we first left Nova Scotia that we try to

do this as cheap as possible and that

meant avoiding marinas unless absolutely

necessary for fuel and water or whatnot

and most of that we stocked up using

jerry cans just to avoid tying up and

incurring any charges as I mentioned we

have to typically stop at marinas or

some dinghy docks in different places

where there's fuel or water available

because we often had to stop and pick up

fuel and water pretty much every town we

went to and yeah there's a bit of a

money grab like just to type your dinghy

and go ashore and get some necessities

they charge you altogether between all

of the times we stopped and had to pay

these dinghy dock fees that added up to

roughly $100 for the entire trip from

Nova Scotia down to the Bahamas the plus

side of paying the dinghy fees is that I

noticed that a lot of the marinas would

allow you to use their facilities for

the day yeah that was so it was really

nice to get a hot shower and even

sometimes they'd allow us to use their

washer and dryer so there was benefits

and

paying that fee for the day yeah if

you're getting a dinghy dock always ask

what you can get for that money because

sometimes it's not just tying up you may

be able to have a shower it's not always

the case but sometimes we spent six

hundred and twenty dollars on groceries

for the two months of us traveling down

the coast and that's mostly you know

perishables milk eggs bread fruits

vegetables and yeah it added up quickly

and I couldn't believe how quickly we

have been going through our snack

covered as well like you eat a lot when

you're on passage all together for

laundry we spent about forty five

dollars we were trying to be

conservative but you do have to stop and

you do have to do laundry when it's

available if you stop somewhere and

you're gonna be there long enough you

know the weather's bad and you see that

they have laundry available it's

probably a good idea to go and get at

least a couple loads done while you're

there we only ever really had one load

maybe two we were really careful we had

started our travels late October last

fall every time we'd have a three-day

weather window it would be always

followed by a massive cold front that

would come in and we'd have like a 50

knot wind storm come through and we had

to really move quickly from area to area

we didn't have a lot of time to stop and

smell the flowers like when we came

through the Long Island Sound or when we

sailed into Manhattan we didn't have

much time to enjoy the scenery or see

anything on shore it was cold and it was

just getting colder and we were in such

a hurry that we wanted to get out of the

cold into Florida as quickly as possible

we only stopped for like a day or two

we're just waiting for sea conditions

and weather to clear up yeah it was

creepy like we'd pull into marinas that

were pretty much shut down and there's

no boats around there's the staff had

all gone for the season and we had this

sense of being incredibly late like most

so late yeah so late we kept looking for

boats with other jerrycans on their

decks and there is like no one to be

found so in total we had spent $200 in

entertainment I'm sure you guys would

like to put a little bit more in your

budget yeah there's definitely cruisers

who took their time coming down the

coast and did all kinds of fun things

well that wasn't us we literally just

put it all off until we were in the

Bahamas right yeah States alcohol was so

cheap so we held off to do a good

provision for alcohol we spent about 190

Emeka a ton for $190 like a lot of beer

cheap beer mind you but we got a lot of

beer it lasts us all throughout the

Bahamas which is where you need it is in

the Bahamas alcohol prices are

redonkulous does that include all that

beer we bought in Florida that includes

the beer that we bought in Florida Wow

that just goes to show how cheap beer is

in Florida 24 cans of beer for $12

Americans I'm pretty sure the boats

waterline changed when we brought beer

fun we at least lost a knot or two and I

speed know for sure if you go back and

watch our videos we had a crew member

with us

that crossed the Gulf of Maine with us

from Nova Scotia over to Portland that's

where he flew out and we had to cover

his flight home so the flight came to

420 dollars he was really looking

forward for doing the crossing from

Halifax straight to Bermuda but our

weather window did not show up the way

we had expected it to yeah and you know

a lot of people take crew members with

them and sometimes they're paid crew and

sometimes they're flying them home from

pretty exotic places and those costs can

get pretty high so I think we got off

pretty good with with that one flight

our jib sail got kind of beat up along

the way and we got a tear as we arrived

into the Bahamas but you know what it

wasn't that bad we went right into

Georgetown

and we found a gentleman he's working in

his garage behind his house we just

showed up with the jib sail and right on

the spot he patched it up and only

charged us 80 dollars American yeah I

did a great job and he used professional

Dacron to do the patch and I was really

impressed that sail is working for us

now and continues to work it was a great

patch yeah our post departure grand

total cost is two thousand nine hundred

and seventy two dollars a rival cough

when you get to the Bahamas you need to

buy a cruising permit when we arrived

for a vessel of our length the cruising

permit cost us $300 American as of now

it's increased I was told it's now

double and if we were to go back to the

momma's it would now cost us $600 so

keep that in mind if you're headed that

way in the Bahamas we felt that it'd be

our best option to go with my island

Wi-Fi it's a really neat device it just

works as though it's a Wi-Fi router in

your home but you can take your router

with you it's on a battery and go to the

beach go anywhere with your my Island

Wi-Fi router and you have Wi-Fi wherever

you go

yeah and it's full unlimited data

unbelievable it costs us $75 a month and

$50 deposit and so our total arrival

costs having arrived in the Bahamas were

three hundred and seventy-five dollars

our overall cost from Canada to the

Bahamas is seven thousand six hundred

and nine dollars that's a lot of money

it didn't look like we were spending

that much money when we were doing it

but when you put it down on paper like

this and you see that number it's kind

of a surprise I'm really shocked and

that's not even including the money I

had spent on like my provisioning for

the trip entire yea provisioning is a

whole other thing and I'm not even going

to tell you my number because every time

I do tell people my number

they're just like okay girl you went a

little crazy but I'm glad I did it

because the coronavirus kicked us in the

butt and I'm not regretting my decisions

though so that's it guys

now you know what it costs to sail from

Canada to the Caribbean so I hope this

information that we just share with you

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