What's up, guys? Welcome back to another video.
And if you're new to our channel, I'm Andrea
I'm Alejo
Today, we're going to be talking about the cost of calling out our boat.
So we have been living in our sailboat.
Hakuna. For the past two years.
And it was long overdue to do the maintenance of this boat.
Yes. When we started living on the boat, we wanted to do everything.
We wanted to polish.
We went in to keep the boat brand new
and we came to see that we were working on the boat.
Most of the time.
So we said like, no, let's stop, let's enjoy the boat.
And then after a year or two years, we just fix everything that's broken.
Then we'll keep going
So just to go back to the actual question, so how much did we spend
at the boat yard this past couple of weeks?
Now we hauled out our boat.
And the answer is about almost ten thousand dollars.
So how on earth do we spend ten thousand dollars
an a boatyard, on our boat just in 10 days?
Let's start with hauling out the boat taking it out of the water
and putting it in the blocks, which is the little wooden things
that to put below the boat and just paying for storage for the boatyard.
That was eight hundred and sixteen dollars.
And we were there for six. I'm sorry. For 10 days.
The boatyard actually gave us one week for free.
They do five days for oh, five days for free.
And then we started paying.
But that includes the haul out, the pressure wash
and the 10 days that we were at the boatyard. Right.
Plus that they charged us two hundred dollars
for doing the holes on the ground for the rudders
or the rudders... That was like a hundred dollars for starboard side.
One hundred dollars for port side.
That's included in the in the 810.
So the second cost is that, as you guys know, we had to bring down
our entire paint down to gelcoat.
So the reason for that is because we had layers of.
So this boat is a the 2008 Lagoon, Right.
So that means that it has been over 13 years since the boat was made or built.
So that means that it had been painted over the gelcoat.
The next 13 years, like every two years, someone had just painted another coat
on top of the primer, so they had never taken it down to the gelcoat.
What happened to us the last two years is that the coats,
the layers of paint were actually coming off all the way, some parts
all the way down to the gelcoat, other parts just down to the primer.
Another part is the first coat of paint
it had a lot of work.
First of all, a lot of work to do on the boat.
Second of all, we did not want to do the sanding by ourselves.
We didn't want to do the painting either.
So we ended up hiring Martin to do the
the removal of the paint and to just do a paint job
And the sanding.
So we hired Martin to do a lot of jobs for us, which was the start.
First, he scraped down all the paint down to a gelcoat.
Then he sanded the holes. He painted
two layers of the epoxy
primer, then did two layers of antifouling.
Yeah. And a third layer on the waterline.
Then he removed the old
waterline strip, which was blue.
They did a new one. Yeah, a gray one.
So up to what Alejo just said
Martin charged us two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
On top of that, we had to pay for the cost of the actual paint,
which was, every little gallon is about 300 ranges from 300 to 400 dollars.
And in total for them, we did five gallons of paint.
That includes the one that was dropped.
Babe, what happened?
We just with three hundred dollars. Why?
One of our paint cans.
I was going up the ladder with the paint can.
And the thing is slip.
And for me to be able to grab from here, I jumped.
They came back. I dropped the paint can.
I jumped
Three hundred dollars right there.
Five paints was a total of two thousand two hundred and ten dollars.
That's including the primer and the antifouling, right? Yes.
So everything in total for what Martin needed to just do the work. Yes. Right.
So then on top of that, we had to do all the engine work,
which included that we had to remove the cone clutch.
Alejo did all of the work himself.
But then he had to take the clutch to someone else to do exactly what?
Yes. To do the lapping.
The lapping means they put like a paste on the cone.
They all do a lap and they change any parts that are wear.
And that's why I didn't have the tools to take that apart.
So we took it somewhere and they did it for us.
And that was five hundred dollars for the two of them
five hundred and forty dollars to be more specific.
So on top of that, we had two unexpected surprises,
and that is very common to happen when you haul out your boat.
You have not seen the bottom.
You have not seen what has really happened.
And the first surprise was that one of our propellers was broken.
Yes, it was broken.
Because here, Miss Captain,
Wait, was it me?
Broke it.
no i didn't
Oh, yes, you did. In the Bahamas.
But oh, what did I do?
You put it in reverse and the dinghy line was in the water.
Oh, why didn't you check the dinghy line?
I don't know. I wasn't driving.
So, yeah.
So things happen.
You know, you learn
the dinghy line got caught up in the propeller
and it was like too much tension and pressure in the propeller.
So the the thing inside the propeller ended up breaking
because we had already spent a lot of money and everything, we try to like ask them to fix it, like.
Believe me, we were trying to do just the bare minimum for the boat
because we didn't want to like
when we first started this project.
Our budget was five thousand dollars
and we obviously went way overboard.
And honestly, we were just trying to keep it to the minimum,
like the basics of what the boat we felt needed.
But nothing like.
No upgrades, it's nothing like out of this world.
Yeah. Well, they couldn't fix the propeller that we had,
because there was like there's not a solution to it.
So we had to buy a new propeller.
Just buying the same one was another.
Five hundred dollars. Horrible.
Yeah, that hurt
Then the other surprise was the rudders,
the bearings on the rudders were loose, they came down. They weren't sticking to the boat.
So we had to drop down the rudders
and Dane did the work.
And he charged a total of another five hundred dollars.
Another 5000
B.O.A.T break out another thousand.
If you leave those things like that, they're going to damage the rudders.
It's going to damage your boat.
It's going to damage more the bearings.
It can damage another part on your boat.
So so before we keep going with the next cost, let's go on to the polishing.
So before ceramic coating, we had to polish the boat?
Because right now the boat is has a lot of oxidation.
Well, not right now, but I had a lot of oxidation.
Why do we have to do polishing?
Like, why is that important or essential? On the boat?
Yeah, because the gelcoat will start to go bad
and then all the gelcoat can just fall off the boat
and then you have to repaint the whole boat. So that's sucks.
So that's when we hired Martin and his crew to do the polishing.
Now polishing of the hulls and under the hulls was three hundred dollars.
Three hundred and fifty dollars was three hundred and fifty dollars. It wasn't bad.
It wasn't bad at all. It was actually a lot of work. Yeah.
But then we bought the ceramic coating so that we would do the ceramic coating.
So what is ceramic coating for people that don't know was ceramic coating is?
It's a liquid that you put on
top after you polish and you take out all those stains.
It's like a liquid that you put over and it creates a little layer
of like ceramic and it leaves the boat super shiny.
And that would last around 2 years on your hulls and boat.
And you could do it on the showers.
It's regularly used on cars
and you could see just go online and put ceramic coat on cars.
And it's an incredible product
So for the ceramic coating, we paid nineteen hundred dollars.
Now, the ceramic coating, we did get partially sponsored by Starke Yacht Care.
We are going to blog the entire process eventually.
So now, obviously, whenever you're doing any kind of work, there are some extras,
just like from sanding paper, little brushes things like that.
Right. Tools that you need in order to complete the other big jobs.
And then the last cost, which still is not
part of the actual boat, but we still added to the cost of hauling.
Was the cost of renting
an apartment to stay while we were doing all of the boatyard work?
Why do we do that?
Because Grenada gets about to be like 100 degrees Fahrenheit every single day.
It is miserably hot.
And as you guys know, we care a lot about just our dogs
and we worry about them because they're super hairy
and we don't want them to be like in a boatyard
suffering with the heat.
So obviously, we chose to bring them in this lifestyle.
It's our responsibility
to make sure that we don't make them go through bad situations. Right.
So we try to make it as comfortable as possible.
we paid for each night.
We paid sixty dollars and the total cost of staying goes.
I don't know if it was nine or 10 night was five hundred and seventy dollars
after adding up all the cost of the haul out just to stay, everything.
The work that was done in the boat, it adds up to ten thousand
one hundred and ninety six dollars.
Now, could we have avoided any of the costs that we incurred on?
So I think, yes, there's things that we could have just
skipped, like not like taking down the paint to a gelcoat
or using a different paint , a cheaper paint,
or just not hiring anyone and do the job ourselves.
But in the end, it's a lot of work.
It's very hard work. The painting is toxic.
We would have just done all the work ourselves. We would not have been able
to do this in 10 days because of how much work it was.
So it would have still taken I was like at least double the time, like easily.
So two weeks for sure, at least.
Which means more money for the boatyard, more.
More money in the apartment that we were paying
and more miserable time, because personally, maybe other people like it.
But I did not like being at the boatyard.
It was very hot.
It was a lot of mosquitoes.
It was a lot of work.
Yeah, it was a rough couple of days for sure.
And plus, you know, just by us doing work at the boatyard,
we're stopping the work that earns us more money, which is working
on our business and working on other stuff that actually earns us my money.
So then you like put it in a balance on a scale.
Then you realize, it make sense for us
to hire someone else to do certain jobs.
The other question would be, is it worth it? Is it worth it?
Would you like would you do it again if you could go back in time?
I think it was worth it for us.
Like we did notice that when we went sailing again
and we moved the boat, we gained a knot on speed.
What do you think about that?
Yeah, it's worth it.
And also for like we don't haul out every year
and just the out like eight hundred dollars.
So you don't want to just have to haul out, just to do one simple thing
like just to change the seals on your sail drive, you might as well just when you do the haul out
try to do everything while you're on the hard that you could just do.
And yeah, that's why we decided just to do everything.
the rudders, saildrives, cone clutch, everything at once and now, everything like.
It gives us also a peace of mind that the boat is perfect we could go anywhere
and nothing's going to break.
So even though ten thousand dollars is a lot of money, it is for us at least,
because, you know, everything's relative.
If you have 10 million sitting in the bank, maybe ten thousand dollars is not
a lot for you, but for us, ten thousand dollars is definitely a lot of money.
When we take that into consideration
and we look at the fact that we didn't haul out last year.
The fact that the longer we wait to do the the bottom paint,
we have to be scrubbing a lot more often, then we have to just be underwater
just scrubbing the boat.
So that's why we thought it was best to just kind of like
take a little bit of a proactive approach and do something that is going to
hopefully make the paint last longer and hopefully have maybe
two full years of not hauling out, maybe hopefully a little bit more.
Yeah, we're crossing our fingers maybe a little bit more,
because we really like we said, we don't really enjoy the haul out process.
It is a lot of work.
But the boat did come out beautiful, that is for sure.
Like we did notice a huge change.
The boat, like, you know, you put that money in and the boat
you're going to notice. And I know it is a change. Exactly.
And we saw that with the engines.
We saw that just how the boat looks around.
So the boat is very
grateful and appreciative of us, like putting that money in.
And at the end of the day, it is our home.
So we want to make sure that we are
in a nice space, that it is pretty, that it is comfortable.
And you guys pay taxes for your houses,
which is like 20000 dependent on taxes on your house.
We don't pay taxes every year on the boat,
so we just pay for the haul out and the maintenance. Right.
That's how I see it
That's how you see it?
No, that's not how I see it, I just feel like a lot of money.
Well, hope this video was helpful for you guys,
let us know if you have any questions on the comment section
and let us know if you want us to do a video of our monthly cost
of living on the boat.
So not just the haul out, but the actual monthly cost of,
you know, food insurance and gas and all the other stuff
that that includes this life like cruising full time cruising.
Yeah. We'll see you guys on the next video.