Our expenditure on hotel food and gas(oh, and beer) was 2K, but remeber 2 dry suits, 2 epirbs, VHF, GPS(2), Flares, horns, safety lanyards, throwable, extra parts, new sails, spare sails, spare spin pole, spare dagger board, spare rudder, spare rudder castings, spare tiller arms, spare tiller, extra rigging, extra blocks, ropes, shackles....
You get the point, the cost are not just calculated on the hotel food and gas cost, somebody has to have the boat and spares. We also had to replace a tire or 2 on the RV, so figure it all up. Dont try to skimp, it will bite you. If you pay a $500 entry fee only to break something the first day and be out because you dont have a spare, then you youve lost the whole race and your 500$.

David Mosley
NACRA F18
TEAM SEACATS