Traveller Annual maintenance is just the cost of the equipment and two weeks of shipyard drydock and labour to the maintenance.

It doesn't account for the crew salaries, or lifesupport, or fuel, or berthing costs ...

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From: xxxxxx@simplelists.com <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> On Behalf Of Rupert Boleyn
Sent: 09 January 2021 01:49
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Subject: Re: [TML] You call that ayacht?

On 09Jan2021 1349, Kurt Feltenberger wrote:
> Someone mentioned yearly maintenance costs being rather low. eSysman
> discusses yearly total cost of operations in this video and that a
> good yardstick is ~10% of the original purchase cost.  This is an
> average, and includes crew salaries, maintenance, provisioning, fuel,
> berthing fees, etc., everything that it takes to keep the yacht
> operation and in top condition for 1 year.
>
> https://youtu.be/H9Fs6O6nehY
>
I just saw a costing for a Nimitz-class carrier, and they run at about that too, including the purchase price, refit costs, and disposal costs (including of the reactor fuel). Of course, they're looking at a 40-50 year or more service life, which spreads the fixed costs a lot. Also, that didn't include the air wing, and aircraft cost a *lot* to run (on the other hand they're also very pricey, so it may still work out for them).

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