mattiedread
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Has anyone seriously looked into the overhead of buying/running a liveaboard?
Overhead on a liveaboard?
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Yes I did along time ago. It can be a nightmare, also what kinda boat,location,food availability & type,permits,payoffs,marketing,wheather patterns,help,how do I geat a $20 part from here to GOD only knows where I am at!!!!!!!!!!!! And he does not care about your problem to keep your guests happy.But these folks will KILL you online when you do not have a $2.00 fuse which destroys their 1 week in heaven and it is and always will be your fault.You should have had spare fuse and yes a new hull sitting on the island just in case, and yes it is your fault when it rains or the wheather turns to sh//t why did you not tell them a year ago when they booked in the worst part of the year ??? Because you lost 1 mil over the last three years and you got educated and where in dry dock fixing that $2.00 fuse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
Spray25
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think domino is against the idea.
We ran our own sail/dive charter from our 43' Hunter sailboat in the Bahamas for approx 2 years.
Unforunately, a lot of domino says it true. But there are always plusses like:
- anchoring in a quiet isolated spot far away from it all. Listening to the gentle lap of the waves against the hull while you sit in the cockpit sipping a cuppa. The light from the night sky is so bright you can read.
- pristine dive sites where no one goes. And the 'cudas follow you around like inquisitive puppies with far too many teeth.
- water so many shades of blue that you cannot name them all. Cottony soft white sand you sink up to your ankles in.
But then...
- the refrigeration goes out while the guests are on board, even though it was thoroghly checked out the prior week.
- the guests have a tiff & don't want to talk to each other. At all.
- someone's housing floods, trashing their $3K video camera. And it's EVERYONE'S fault.
Good & bad.
We'll go back to the sailboat, but NOT as a charter!
~SubMariner~
Unforunately, a lot of domino says it true. But there are always plusses like:
- anchoring in a quiet isolated spot far away from it all. Listening to the gentle lap of the waves against the hull while you sit in the cockpit sipping a cuppa. The light from the night sky is so bright you can read.
- pristine dive sites where no one goes. And the 'cudas follow you around like inquisitive puppies with far too many teeth.
- water so many shades of blue that you cannot name them all. Cottony soft white sand you sink up to your ankles in.
But then...
- the refrigeration goes out while the guests are on board, even though it was thoroghly checked out the prior week.
- the guests have a tiff & don't want to talk to each other. At all.
- someone's housing floods, trashing their $3K video camera. And it's EVERYONE'S fault.
Good & bad.
We'll go back to the sailboat, but NOT as a charter!
~SubMariner~
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mattiedread
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Yeah, I had a feeling I'd get a few nightmare stories. My brother in law ran a charter fishing boat out of Montauk for quite a few years (close to 30, I think). His trips generally weren't longer than 3 or 4 days and he retired at 55 from the money he saved. But, he told me that running a boat now is so difficult to be profitable because of lack of big$ fish, insurance costs etc. I was wondering if the same were true of diving ops.
Many years ago a family friend bought (and has subsequently sold) a liveaboard and he made a ton of $. If memory serves me right I believe it was an Agressor franchise. Although, he did not operate the boat, he lived in New Jersey.
Many years ago a family friend bought (and has subsequently sold) a liveaboard and he made a ton of $. If memory serves me right I believe it was an Agressor franchise. Although, he did not operate the boat, he lived in New Jersey.
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