Scott here. Looks like I may have some time to put together our Bahamas stats! Either way, it was money and time well spent.
We arrived in the Bahamas on December 4 and left on February 15. A total of 68 nights.
Engine hours total: 183.6
We traveled on 19 days.
Total time traveling was just over 93 hours (93:06) for an average of 4:54 each time.
We traveled a total of 757.5 miles while in the Bahamas.
We stayed 12 nights in 6 anchorages.
We stayed 36 nights in 6 marinas.
We stayed 20 nights on 5 mooring balls.
MARINAS
We spent $5,146.22 at marinas on docking, power, and water. That is a total of $146.95 per night. Way too many nights on a dock in my opinion. That is one thing I would change. But, the boat and lack of equipment (a pump out system) kept us on the dock 10 days longer that we expected at the Marina at Emerald Bay. That problem cost us $1,429.50 of and the weather in Nassau (Nassau Yacht Haven) and not having a good place to anchor in Nassau cost us another $1,322.55. That was over 50% of our marina costs and would have put us in line of where I thought we would be.
FUEL
We bought 23.378 gallons of gas. This was used for our dinghy to get us to shore. Our dinghy is like a car on land. The highest per gallon cost was $6.68 in Staniel Cay. The lowest per gallon cost was $5.00 per gallon in Nassau.
We also bought 490.907 gallons of diesel for $2,801.60 at 5 different occasions, this includes the fuel we put in at Fort Lauderdale, but not the fuel we have yet to put in getting back to the states. So, the stats are not perfect, but close enough.
Fort Lauderdale was 115.04 gallons
Nassau was 118.027 gallons
Moss Town (Marina at Emerald Bay) was 76.83 & 43.31 gallons
Nassau again was 133.7 gallons
Most expensive was Nassau at Bay Street Marina at $6.29 a gallon and the least expensive was $4.799 in Fort Lauderdale, but the cheapest in the Bahamas was also in Nassau at Brown’s Boat Basin at $5.15.
OTHER EXPENSES
Other than some items we needed for the boat, additional expenses would have been food and entertainment. That is so variable by every boater’s individual preferences we will not go into that. I will say everything is more expensive in the Bahamas. If you travel there by boat take as much as you possibly can for food. We pretty much emptied our pantry and had plenty of toilet paper and paper towels. An extra freezer with meat would have been nice and a few more cases of Diet Pepsi too. Just figure everything will cost at least twice as much. A bag of chips was $8-20, hamburger was $10+ a pound and toilet paper would have been $2 a roll.
We provisioned OK. Far from perfect, but OK. I was happy with what little leftovers we had.
