I guess you were going to be eating anyway - unless you have taken to fasting at the weekends. That's $540 you could take off the total.

My record year was 14 regattas (including two week long events) and about 12,000 miles. I never put a pencil to the costs - figuring out I was still better off than if I had taken up motorsport as a hobby.

If you start factoring in things like spinnakers (an annual expense at least if you race and practice a lot) and amortize your main over 3 years it really starts to add up.

Then again there are no pockets in shrouds and I don't regret a cent of it.

Chris.