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Location will play huge factor in food provisons and thing may have to be folws into remorte locations.
Crew is one of the largest expenses on a superyacht and critical to the owner’s enjoyment of their vessel. As the largest crew agency in the world, we know crew. Our cost calculator contains customized crew lists for yachts ranging from 80ft to 600ft with salary information based on our reference verified salary data.
Our users also have the ability to completely tailor the crew list to the specific needs, schedule and requirements of their vessel. Each yacht is unique and may have specific owner requests in addition to the yacht’s safe manning requirements.
Management of the supplemental crew costs and strategic budgeting can help avoid significant overspend on categories such as food and uniform. This tool contains default values based on our industry expertise and recommended budget for an efficiently and safely run superyacht.
To learn more about each crew position in detail, including salary ranges, please visit our yacht department directory .
Drag the sliders to modify your results. These are not linear scales and we expect most yachts to operate within the 20-80% window. Above 80% and below 20% costs increase or decrease at exaggerated levels and we only see numbers in these levels in very rare circumstances.
This sunburst diagram is interactive. You can click into each block to see the expense break down and mouse over each block for more details.
Our chart of accounts displays seven major categories, 20 sub-categories plus a further 80 detail categories for a total of 107.
Our yacht operating cost calculator is now on it’s third major revision. We start with actual yacht expense data from our yacht management accountants and then generate formulas to extrapolate out the budget for a wide range of yachts. We have been providing accounting services to large yachts for the past 18 years.
Our operating cost calculator is tuned for yachts from 80 to 600 feet. We find operating variables create the largest variances for yachts smaller than 100 feet and larger than 250 feet. We have tested the numbers the most in the range from 100 to 250 feet.
Our budget calculator factors in the fuel burn for a range of engine sizes typically seen installed on yachts by length. By dragging the green “fuel dockage” slider to the right you will increase the projected fuel burn rate and therefore the budget cost for fuel. Our default position would be for a typical displacement fuel burn. Position the slider in the 60-80% range for fuel projections for planning hulls.
Our default values produce a budget number that we believe is generous to run a yacht to a high standard. Perfect is a very expensive word to use in the yachting industry where standards are already high. Moving the crew and maintenance sliders to 80% will provide an “industry best” quality of crew and give them the maintenance budget to operate to a very high standard. If you need to go over the 80% area then you may have unusually labor intensive equipment on the yacht.
Yes, our yacht operating cost calculator can output a budget suitable for this situation. Adjust the owner use to 2 (minimum value), owner slider to 0, crew slider to 10%, Administration to 10%, Fuel and Dockage to 0, Maintenance to 10% and then Capital Repairs to 0. This will remove all of the large charges associated with owner use and vessel movement but leave the essential base maintenance and insurance in place.
Lift on and float in yacht transport is a popular way to transport yachts across large ocean passage. The yachts that this service certainly applies to are ones that may not have the motoring range or structural integrity for blue ocean cruising. The cost of transporting a yacht twice per year is put into our budget once the “Fuel Dockage” slider hits 75%. If your yacht has the range we recommend self-sufficient ocean passages whenever possible. Whilst the transport companies sell their services based upon reportedly well oiled operated schedules the reality is that your yacht may stay waiting for pickup for a week or more with no compensation due. When factoring in all secondary factors of self-sufficient passages (increased fuel, maintenance, potential storm damage, crew time off, extra delivery crew) compared with transporting your yacht (insurance, potential loading / unloading damage, loss of schedule control, no work whilst underway, crew flights, crew accommodation) we believe that there is a 100% premium associated with float in transport and a 75% premium with lift on transport compared with self-powered.
Abandoned yachts crash in value. We recommend that even if you are trying to sell your yacht that you use the yacht for a minimum of two weeks per year so that systems are tested and working every six months. There is nothing worse for a yacht than not being used. If you truly are not going to use the yacht then you should sell it immediately for the first genuine offer as every dollar you put into maintenance will not be recovered at the time of the sale.
We did not build this version with sailing yachts in mind. Early in our development of this version we decided to exclude sailing yachts as a few of the major cost drivers scale very differently for sailing yachts compared with motor yachts. For example: To calculate paint costs we reviewed the surface area of over 100 large yachts and created a formula for painted surface area to length. Sailing yachts just don’t scale in a consistent way. Similarly crew numbers don’t scale in the same manner that they do for motor yachts. If there is sufficient demand we may build a sailing selector switch into a future version of this tool.
We hate to hear when yacht owners were told by their broker to factor in 10% of the purchase price to operate the yacht. This over used saying is sadly right occasionally (particularly for newer yachts in the $20-30M range)… but just because a broken watch tells the right time twice a day you shouldn’t rely upon it to tell the time. As yachts get older their capital value decreases but their maintenance costs increase. There is no way that a fixed 10% of purchase cost rule can be true… if your broker told you this rule then you need a new yacht broker… we know some good ones. 😊
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How to calculate yacht fuel cost – The boat fuel cost calculator
When you decide to enjoy a yacht charter , there are many things you have to consider, not only when and where and whom you wish to join the party. I’m talking about the costs and expenses you will have during this memorable holiday with your loved ones. Depending on what type of vessel you are about the rent and the destination you will discover (as every place has its prices, pros, and cons), you will have a different bill at the end of your cruise .
How much cost chartering a yacht?
The most common questions we receive from our customers before they embark aboard the selected yacht they booked with us for their charter are:
- What does the price include?
- What is APA?
- What does APA stand for?
- What are the extras?
- How much is VAT?
- Can I have an estimate of the extra costs and expenses?
- How much will I spend in terms of fuel?
- What does the fuel boat cost?
- How to calculate fuel boat cost ?
- What is the price to dock the yacht at the marina?
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Our expert Charter Managers are glad to assist you with all the questions, clarifications, thoughts, and doubts you may have from the boat’s selection to your charter’s arrangements until the disembark. We always reserve transparent and clear 24/7 assistance to our new and repetitive clients, without surprises.
How do I calculate yacht fuel cost?
When you charter a power yacht , the most critical cost to support is for sure fuel .
When you rent a sailboat or hire a catamaran , don’t forget about the fuel cost for generators , the outboard engine of the dinghy. It would be a different cost at the end (definitively lower than aboard a motor yacht), but pay attention to air conditioning, especially when you spend the night at anchor.
Yacht fuel calculation: how it works
It’s time to take a map and find on it all the spots and destinations you wish to reach! Keep in mind that you can predict the weather conditions only 10 to 7 days before embarking.
Prepare your sailing itinerary .
Your sailing route will depend on many factors, as the engine power and cruising speed of the yacht, the weather conditions, and the nautical miles you intend to navigate. Naturally, you will have to be informed about the actual market price of the fuel in the destination you will sail to have the right or most approximate calculation of the boat fuel cost .
Together with the assistance and suggestions of our sales department, our experienced technicians created an advanced, quick, and efficient tool for the yacht fuel calculation that we call the “ Boat fuel calculator .” This tool allows you to have a concrete and actual analysis of the yacht fuel consumption and price, starting with your itinerary plan on the map to the final result.
Let’s begin: select the point of embarkation of your charter on the map. Now continue pinning all the beautiful spots you want to reach by boat during your yacht charter (as you can see, the calculator automatically updates the number of nautical miles) to disembark. You will obtain the total number of miles.
Calculate the nautical miles
Naturally, you can choose the unit of measures (nautical miles, miles, km): in this case, it would be the nautical miles and, every time you pin a new destination on your map, from the embark to the disembark, the tool updates the total number of miles cruised.
Now that we have the total number of miles, mandatory to calculate the boat fuel cost of our cruise. We need to know the yacht’s cruising speed, the engine consumption, and the market price of diesel in our next sailing destination.
Engine power and consumption
Now that we have the nautical miles, we need to know the engines’ power (the hp) and the real engine consumption of the boat we rent to have the actual yacht fuel calculation .
The last essential element we need to obtain the yacht fuel cost of our charter is the market price of gas in the destination we will sail. To have the diesel’s actual merits, you can consult many updated webpages of marinas and fuel bunkers, which continuously report the existing fuel prices day by day. (You can also check at https://www.marineyellowpages.com/ )
The fuel consumption formula
What we are looking for is the expense of fuel we will have during our cruise.
Now that we have all the information we need for the yacht fuel calculation, and so:
- Total nautical miles;
- Engine consumption;
- Cruising speed;
- The market price of gas;
We can proceed with the real boat fuel calculator using our formula.
Firstly, we need to know our charter’s travel time; I’m referring to the cruise duration. The formula to obtain the cruise duration is determined by dividing the number of nautical miles by the number of knots (the boat’s cruising speed).
For example, if the nautical miles we are planning to navigate are 150 nm and the cruising speed of our yacht is 18 knots:
150 nm / 18 kn = 8,333 hr
So if we want to cruise in a total of 150 nautical miles with a cruising speed of 18 knots, we will take about 8,333 hours. You will always have to consider the sea and weather conditions, which will influence the engines’ consumption.
And now that we have the “time,” the “duration” of our charter? How to calculate the yacht fuel cost?
If the engine of our boat consumes 250 lt/hr, we have to multiply the time of our cruise, so in this case, 8,333 hr by the boat fuel consumption, so by 250 lt/hr:
8,333 hr / 250 lt/hr = 2.082,50 lt
2.082,50 are the liters we consume cruising for 8,333 hr with engine consumption of 250 lt/hr. Now we have to multiply the number of liters just obtained by the market price of fuel, that we can suppose at 1,50 Euro/lt :
2.082,50 lt x 1,50 Euro = 3.123,75 Euro
Let’s resume the “magic formula” for yacht fuel calculation. If your sailing itinerary contemplates 150 nautical miles at a constant cruising speed of 18 knots, 250 lt/hr consumption, and marine diesel cost of 1,50 Euro/lt, at the end of our yacht charter, we will have a bill of 3.123,75 Euro.
The calculations of boat fuel cost are always approximate and depend on sea and weather conditions and atmospheric and natural events.
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Our team is always pleased to assist you, providing free 24/7 professional support for your charter arrangements and customizing your charter and journey. Feel free to contact us and get our advanced sailing tips and recommendations about your next charter: sailing itinerary, best bases, and marinas, where to spend the night at anchor, fuel bunkers, ATM and exchange, transfers from/to airport, groceries, and markets, restaurants and excursions, activities for kids and family, private celebrations, wedding, and corporate events, and much more.
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