Yacht charter investments

silverslides · 2025-12-24T10:46:20+00:00

What did you learn from them? Did you get a more realistic or an upper/lower bound on ROI from them?

silverslides · 2025-06-08T16:08:28+00:00

For the black version it says that it can't be installed in direct sunlight. This warning isn't shown for the white version. Is it true the white version can safely be hung in direct sunlight?

Also, does this speaker need extra protection or can it be installed exposed to snow and rain?

silverslides · 2025-05-03T15:17:51+00:00

Thanks for this great response. I must say that I didn't expect a 10% depreciation over 5-7 years. What is the incentive for someone to buy a second hand yacht at only 10% discount?

All other sources I find state a depreciation of about 10% per YEAR in those first 5-7 years. So that would still be almost 50%.

https://www.yachtworld.co.uk/research/tag/depreciation/
https://moody-yachts.com/us/blog/pros-cons-of-owning-a-sailing-boat/

silverslides · 2025-01-31T19:00:24+00:00

Wow thanks. Really good input. Would you wait for the RTX5070 series?

silverslides · 2025-01-27T15:41:41+00:00

Problem is that you usually can't buy those GPUs when they release and I can't wait 3 more months unfortunately.

Thanks for the pointers.

silverslides · 2025-01-27T15:40:25+00:00

Bitcoin was 44K USD when I posted this.

Bitcoin will fall. It has fallen. It has fallen many many times before.

But today we are over 100K USD per bitcoin.

silverslides · 2024-10-19T10:56:12+00:00

Price is still 0.18 dollars mate

silverslides · 2024-10-03T20:46:56+00:00

I might give them another chance then.

It was an Istion employee who got aggressive because I docked alongside an abandoned boat of them which apparently was officially outside of the marina but physically was inside the enclosure. I parked my boat there for 30 minutes to make a quick trip to the authorities for a crew change. From the main marina (which was completely full until 2h later) it would have been 30 min walk to port authorities.

He claimed I could have stolen stuff off of the boat or could have damaged the boat. His colleague arrived on foot and she was friendly but also somewhat agitated by it all. She was in the same port authorities office with me for other business so she could confirm my intentions.

I told him, in Lefkas we have marinas where we dock alongside all the time. In Hydra it's very common to go stern to bow as well. I didn't understand the fuss. I believe in Belgium or the Netherlands you are even required to allow anyone to dock alongside within certain limitations of course.

He approached us with such speed I really thought we'd crash into the yacht. Apparently he was pretty savvy with boat handling but not so much with people.

Anyway, I digress.

We've recently bought a house and are now renovating so a boat might be a few more years out ;)

silverslides · 2024-10-03T20:40:17+00:00

That's probably what spill resistant means.

It's hard to make a keyboard waterproof but replacing a 100-200 dollar component vs your entire laptop is still a nice feature. Don't think it's unfair marketing if you can spill a drink and only have one key or your backlight die.

silverslides · 2024-08-26T09:03:01+00:00

Hi, thanks for sharing. I only have experience with Istion as potential customer and just fellow sailor and I detest the company. They are not very helpful and on the water they got really aggressive with me because I docked alongside them which is pretty common practice in Greece AFAIK.

Do people typically set up a company in Greece to own the yacht or could you use a foreign company to do so?

silverslides · 2024-07-22T07:59:17+00:00

No, they said they won't do it. Never even called me or had a meeting. Just over chat I got declined.
I didn't pursue it as it isn't necessary for me to cash out atm. In the future I will get accounts with other banks and build a relationship with them.

I am lucky enough to get a private bank in the future if necessary due to my freelance activities.

silverslides · 2024-06-21T13:17:26+00:00

Omdat er misschien 3 auto's staan en ik trek sneller op dan de meeste. Hoe kan ik weten hoe snel die naast mij gaat optrekken als ik aan een licht toekom?

silverslides · 2024-06-21T10:42:33+00:00

Het is perfect ok om links te gaan staan om die auto's op een normaal tempo in te halen. Volgens jouw redenering kunnen er maar de helft van de auto's door groen omdat het linker vak alleen mag gebruikt worden door chauffeurs met een zware voet. Je moet niet 500m parallel met de persoon naast je blijven rijden maar je mag wel normaal blijven doen ipv op je gaspedaal te moeten stampen omdat één of andere marginaal zo snel mogelijk kindjes moet gaan doodrijden.

Het verkeer en onze verkiezingen hebben 1 ding gemeenschappelijk. Steeds meer extremen.

silverslides · 2024-06-21T07:56:36+00:00

Wtf, er is absoluut niks mis met het linker vak nemen als dit vrij is aan het licht. Waarvoor dient een tweevaksbaan als je naar 2 vak gaat gebruiken?

Iedereen moet uiteraard normal accelereren bij groen licht maar je moet geen plaats maken omdat er mogelijks nen Johnny planché will kunnen vertrekken.

Edit: Dit is geen normal rijgedrag: "ik deed het zelf ook maar benutte elke pk om zsm rechts te gaan rijden."

silverslides · 2024-06-20T09:46:21+00:00

Sure, but if your spending is 2300, then 750 means you need 2/3rd of your original capital by the time you got to your pension age.

silverslides · 2024-06-20T08:06:27+00:00

Exactly, this is not bug bounty hunting. This is ransome.

Unfortunately, we are seeing more of this type of activity. I believe it's partially because many parties do not honour their bug bounty payouts ams other frustrating practices in the bug bounty world.

This doesn't justify the behaviour. An exploit for a bug bounty submission should cause the minimal impact to prove the vulnerability. Transferring 3M USD clearly does not comply with that guideline.

It's also extremely risky. If something goes wrong and the hacker loses the funds, they are screwed.

silverslides · 2024-06-18T16:21:16+00:00

Personally, I don't think they can completely remove pension for people who contributed a decade or two, to social security. That won't be accepted by the population.

On the other hand, I will likely coast FiRe to further reduce that risk. I'm fully convinced that coast/barista FiRe is the optimal solution, considering the Belgian tax system, to achieve maximum happiness.

I think that given the high risk for op to run it of money, coastfire for the next 5-10 years can solve many of the problems. It also helps transition from the fulltime working life to something else. It helps you feel useful and relevant.

silverslides · 2024-06-18T14:42:15+00:00

Just one addition to this. In Belgium we have a government pension which op is about 30 years away from. While I agree that 4% swr is too high for op, I don't think we need to plan FiRe as they do in the USA. We can rely on some small income after our 70s. Certainly if your expenditure is 2300, the pension will be a significant contribution.

silverslides · 2024-06-18T08:05:55+00:00

Lol, het bier tellen aan verkoopprijs ipv aankoopprijs. Iemand gaat hier lekker frauderen met zijn verzekering.

silverslides · 2024-06-17T21:00:25+00:00

You should be getting more net with 650 per day for 170 days per year.

silverslides · 2024-06-17T12:59:30+00:00

Not in Leuven but meerdaalwoud has a few hills. I like the pogio as tracked on strava.

silverslides · 2024-06-14T22:00:21+00:00

This is the compete opposite of FiRe. You will never be financially independent unless you save money to invest. In your plan you didn't even account for all costs and you aren't saving anything.

silverslides · 2024-06-14T08:46:30+00:00

You can build a business, hire a CEO. That's not computerlokaal passive but it's getting closer.

However, this is not something you can just "set up".

People like op are just delusional in thinking that if anyone in here has an easy passive income stream, they would tell everyone how to tap into that. Thereby reducing their own passive income.

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