I will instead include only the cost of living expenses incurred while cruising. Our cruising plans have always included extended stays in areas where we can find work. Dimmer likes to say that we are able to live in the most beautiful harbors in the world, then he adds that we are also able to find profitable work in these locations. We have never ever paid this much for docking. We are very diligent about shopping around and often get a yard deal because Dmitri becomes an employee.
Salt River does include power and briny well water, which is wreaking havoc on our plumbing.
We feel that we are paying a lot for very little, but we as are both working and AnnaRuth is in school, being on the hook the first month here was just too much work. The next cost is food. This cost does seem to average out to be the same no matter where we are and no matter how hard we try to cut it back. We are 3, with a dog, a fish, and a crab, so I guess we just eat a lot. We are covered for loss of vessel and liability and our cruising plans take us from eastern US, to the Virgin Islands and then to Europe.