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CHEAP NORTHWEST VACATIONS
by Bob Hale
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November 25, 2008. This note is meant mostly for those who already have a boat in the Northwest. Otherwise, the math doesn’t work as well.
Once you have a suitably-equipped boat, all you really need for a vacation is food and fuel. Every meal you have on board is a meal not paid for in a restaurant. Every night at anchor is a night with no lodging expense. Averaged out this way, dinners in fine restaurants get a lot more affordable. Averaged out, marina moorage can be laughably low-cost.
Compared with a resort hotel, overnight marina moorage is low-cost anyway. A 50-footer would be hard-pressed to spend $100 for moorage and shore power. This can be a cheap vacation.
Once out of town, the people who live along the way are independent and original. The fellow cruisers you meet often are highly accomplished in their fields. Yet everyone is pretty much equal when they’re cruising. The weather and the sea are indifferent to what we did or didn’t do back home.
People who have cruised all around the world insist that nothing surpasses the Inside Passage. The waters are mostly protected and the open sections are short. You have your choice of big, sophisticated cities, small towns, lonely outposts, and raw wilderness. The Inside Passage is a “dream trip” for cruisers everywhere. And it’s right here, in our laps.
Isn’t it nice that owning a boat in the Northwest is so . . . sensible?v
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Comments
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December 2, 2008.
Bob,
That bit about cheap vacations is well done and expresses exactly what we have experienced. I passed the link to your site on to several friends so they can enjoy it. It makes me feel a bit better in these uncertain times.
Bruce Evertz
M/V Tapawingo
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