Our good friend had his Moorings boat in charter for 5 years and then took delivery when it came out of the program. Now he wishes he would have just bought another boat and put the NEW boat in the Moorings program because he liked traveling anywhere he wanted a boat, instead of now owning the boat and just sailing the Caribbean. Hmmm.
We will soon be facing the same dilemma. If you think about what you spend on the boat in the scheme as defraying your costs against multiple charter holidays over the next 5 years, and you can actually use more than two weeks of owners time a year, then this is a great way to see the world and while not 'bargain prices' a lot cheaper than what you would have spent chartering the same amount of weeks as a paying customer. We go at least 6 weeks a year, instead of chartering only two weeks a year prior to joining the scheme. I have loved it.
