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How does a Raffles apartment compare to buying our own yacht?
For comfort, convenience, safety and cost, there is no comparison.
The only real advantage of owning your own yacht is that you, and you alone, tell the Captain (probably you) where to go, when to leave. Practically however this will only be to the places that Raffles also reaches and some the yacht probably can’t such as Antarctica.
Cost wise, based on a yacht that provides, with 2 people onboard, approximately the same living space, and amenities as a Raffles standard apartment, you must consider an 84ft trawler hull yacht as the minimum, and it will cost you about € 5 million in a form / outfitted for worldwide cruising.
It will not and cannot provide the same safety, not just physical threats to the boat itself, but personal risks such as your needing emergency medical treatment in the middle of the Atlantic.
Assuming one (1) crewman as a minimum (a Filipino) to give you any freedom when in port, it will cost about €700,000 a year to operate it, also at 8 knots 1 week in 4 at sea.
It will also take a lot of your time even with 1 crew helping, to clean and maintain it, let alone you having to stand watches during transits.
Such a boat can carry up to 10 or 12 people so all costs can of course be reduced per person but for 10 people would still work out at €70,000 each PA and this would compare against a Raffles standard apartment with 2 persons at €52,000 each PA and with 4 @ €25,000 each PA.
A small boat is small and even with only a couple onboard and 1 crew it’s pretty difficult to get away from each other, which on Raffles is easy.
Compared in another way, the Euro 3 million cost difference the 84ft yacht versus Raffles apartment, placed in the stock market would conceivably allow purchase of the Raffles apartment over 6 years, and also cover most of its cost of operation. And the principal would still be intact!!!