I had a sailboat many years ago. The costs for the year or so I owned it were more than $1000 for each time I took it out to sea. I lost a lot of enthusiasm for boat ownership.
I’ve got a brother in
Canada who’s a retired lifeguard. He owned a yacht but found it similarly too expensive to keep and ended up
selling it. Three of my coins incidentally are shipwreck coins. Two are a gold Brazilian and British sovereign coin salvaged from the RMS Douro which sunk in a collision in 1882. I managed to acquire the old Douro Cargo
auction catalogue redolent of smoke-filled
auction houses of the 90s. The other coin is not a shipwreck coin as such but a quarter ounce silver
Britannia coin struck in 2014 from a silver ingot salvaged from the SS Gairsoppa which was torpedoed by a
German U-Boat in 1941.