From Penny to Many

Another monthly expense overview from the water. In this blog, we will cover the expenses we had during the month of February 2021. It covers how much we spend on groceries, eating out, maintenance on the boat, and all other costs associated with our sailing lifestyle. If you are curious about what this lifestyle costs us, you will like this monthly expense overview. About tracking our expenses Ever since we started our new lifestyle, sailing full-time with our Lagoon 42 catamaran, we have kept an overview of our monthly expenses. There are two main reasons why we do this and […]

First monthly expense overview of the new year! Welcome to 2021 and to our monthly expenses for January. The new year is always a bit special, like a blanc piece of paper that has all these stories to be written, while you have no idea what they will be. Well, at least you can be assured that we will blog about the cost of sailing our Lagoon 42 catamaran.  We decided to keep track of our expenses because we get such positive feedback on our monthly expense overviews. A lot of you really like reading them and we like writing […]

The last month of 2020! Time to wrap up this crazy year and share our monthly expenses sailing our Lagoon 42! With all the changes going on in the world, it definitely has been a challenging year. Especially because 2020 was also the year we started our full-time sailing adventure on our new catamaran.  In December 2020, we stayed at the Marina of Almerimar in the south of Spain. We are living here until the end of March 2021 when the spring weather will hopefully bring us towards the islands of Ibiza, Mallorca, Corsica, and Sardinia. The video below gives […]

Our fifth monthly expenses blog is here! We’re happy to share our expenses again, this time covering the monthly expense overview November. We are pretty content that our expenses have been back to normal in November, after a very expensive month in October. In this blog, we will breakdown the expenses we made so you might get an idea of what life costs you when you decide to change your lifestyle to traveling on a boat or catamaran as well. Currently, we are living full-time on our Lagoon 42 catamaran in the marina of Almerimar in the south of Spain. […]

It’s about time we show you our monthly expense overview October 2020. This is the fourth month we are sailing and living full-time on our new Lagoon 42 catamaran. October has proven to be a quite different month for us and that shows directly in our expense overview: it’s our most expensive month on the boat so far! In this blog, we will show you all the expenses we made, break the costs down into more details and show you our average costs of living a sailing life after four months. We share these monthly expense overviews because we believe […]

Welcome to our third monthly expense overview. After cruising for two months with our new Lagoon 42 sailing catamaran we are definitely starting to get into the vibe of full-time sailing. In this blog, we will take you through our expenses in September while living on the boat. We started these blogs to give more insight into the actual costs of living this alternative lifestyle for those who are considering a switch from the 9-5 office life. About tracking our expenses As we also explained in our first monthly expense overview, we gave an overview of almost all expenses we […]

Time flies when you’re having fun! Well, that definitely has been the case for August. Time to share our monthly sailing expenses living full-time on a 42-foot catamaran. We ourselves were definitely curious to see how our expenses would evolve in our second month of full-time living on the water. Tracking our expenses We started these monthly expense blogs to show you how much a different lifestyle actually may cost. We think this is interesting information for those of you that are working towards a different lifestyle. Whether this is on the water (as we do) in a camper van, […]

Living full-time aboard our Lagoon 42 catamaran has been such a big change for us! A new lifestyle living (and working) on floating home! If you are interested in the monthly expenses of full-time sailing, this blog is for you. We left the Netherlands exactly on the 1st of July 2020 to sail south towards the Mediterranean. On the day of our departure, we started tracking our expenses with the help of the app 1Money. A super simple way of knowing how much you have spent and in what category. We keep track of our expenses for ourselves. Since this […]