Stats

Sailing Statistics    

Description	First Year  Long Beach to Mexico  SV Déjàlà	Second Year (short 26 days) Mexico SV Déjàlà	Pacific Puddle Jump  + 3 Marquesan Islands  (4 weeks) SV Music
# nautical miles sailed	3,419 nm	2,380 nm	3,042.8 nm
# different anchorages	39	31	3
# of marinas	13	6	1
% of motoring time	1.7% or 58 miles	1.6% or 38 miles	Not recorded since not our vessel
# of hours sailed	985 hours	637 hours	519 hours
Longest time in Marina	54 days Marina La Cruz	26 days Marina La Cruz	n/a
Longest time at anchor in one spot	25 days Banderas Bay	36 days Barra de Navidad	6 days Hiva Oa
Longest time between marinas	46 days	70 days	n/a
# of NEW places visited	70-75  (shore and inland)	37	3
# days not able to get out of boat due to inclement weather	2 Hurricane Paul	2 Elephantes	0
Highest # of nautical miles in 24 hr	134 nm	121 nm	168 nm (42' boat instead of 35')
Highest speed under sail – surfing wave	8.6 knots	9.0 knots	12.7 knots
Slowest sail	0.2 mile/hour (37 hrs/8 miles)	1.3 miles/hour	Captain wouldn’t let boat go below 3 knots without starting motor
Highest wind under sail	31 knots	28 knots	35 knots – ITCZ storm cell
Highest wind at anchor	46 knots	40 knots	23 knots
# of days at anchor	164 or 45 %	247 or 73%	10 or 32%
# of days at dock	142 or 39%	59 or 17%	0
# of days at mooring	11 or 3%	10 or 3%	0
# of days in yard (dry dock)	16 or 4%	1 or 0%	0
# of night sails	32 or 9%	22 or 6%	20 or 68%
# of gallons fresh water daily use	5.3 gal (2 adults and 1 dog)	4.8 gal (2 adults and 1 dog)	Don’t know
# of gas for outboard and generator	20 gal (1.67 gal/month)	5 gal (less than ½ gal/month)	Don’t know

• The only meaningful years are the first two columns.  The last column is used only to record sailing mileage since it wasn't on our boat.
• Went from 142 to 59 nights in marinas (about a 1/3 of first year).
• Ran motor about same amount percentage-wise both years.
• Sailed a little less but visited inland a little more.
• Since selling dinghy and motor and using only kayaks, usage of fuel went down 75% - only used for the generator to top off batteries when solar panels don't get enough sun.

Blog Statistics

          

Description	First Year  (Nov 2011 - Nov 2012)	Second Year  (Nov 2012 - Oct 2013)	Years  (Nov 2013-2015 ytd)
# of page hits to our blog	7,730 or 21/day	7,625 or 22.5/day (339 of 365)	17,358 or 31.4/day (19 months)
Most read posts: ‘The dead and fantastical’	143 views	2,018 views	1,605 views
'Altavista Petroglyphs'	72 views	1,482 views	2,172 views
Traffic sources	US (80%) Mexico (7%) Russia (5%) Australia (2%)  Canada (2%)  Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Trinidad/Tobago, UK (together 4%)	US (66%) Mexico (12%)  Canada (5%) UK (4%) Russia (4%)  Germany (3%)  France (2%)   Ukraine, Poland, Australia (together 4%)	US (53%) Mexico (7%) Canada (4%) France (4%) Germany (3%) Ukraine (3%) Russia (3%) UK (2%) Poland, Turkey (2%) Misc (19%)
Word search	Day of the Dead	Red Neck	Day Bread
Referring URLs	www.vampirestats.com	www.google.com	www.google.fr

                                                                                         

• Since traveling to French Polynesia, traffic source has moved much more from Europe and many smaller countries.  
• If you don't believe in the power of advertising, just look at the referring URLs.  When I wrote about Day of the Dead, the most URL referrals came from vampirestats!  When I wrote about Red Neck Island (a type of reality TV show we saw being filmed in Barra de Navidad), it became the most common URL referral.  Finally visiting a French area, brought the referrals from Google.france.  
• I cannot explain why so much traffic is being led to the Altavista Petroglyphs post.

Money Statistics

Description	First Year	Second Year	PPJ (17 weeks)
General groceries (food, alcohol, dog food, hygiene products)	36.5%	33.4%	8.8%
Marina fees	24.6%	12.7%	0.3%
Transportation – trips other than boat	14.6%	16.8%	37.1%
Small repairs	9.6%	9.8%	0.1%
Entertainment – meals, tours, visits, hotels	5.8%	14.0%	48.3%
Clothing, shoes	2.7%	0.7%	1.0%
Pharma, Dental, Medical	1.6%	1.6%	0.3%
Fuel – gas/propane	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%
Information – books, maps	0.7%	1.9%	1.1%
Laundry	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%
Communication – phone, Skype, internet, radio (SSB)	0.5%	3.7%	2.1%
Boat Insurance	0.1% (some paid prior to departure)	1.5%	0.8%

Lowest expense month	$210.48	$216.90	$1807.77
Highest expense month	$3,125.84	$3,254.98	$8,804.26
Average per month	$1,161.58	$1,063.05	$5,963.04

Main differences:

• Year one - since we were new at sailing, we ended up spending more time in marinas due to lack of knowledge, a little fear/apprehension, but mostly for repairs.  We didn't have to spend that much on repairs during second year (1/2 amount of first year).
• Year two - we spent less time in marinas and moved the money saved to enjoy more  in-land visits 
• Year tree - visiting without a boat is much more expensive.  Had we been able to visit French Polynesia aboard Déjàlà, our monthly costs would've been around $1,800/month rather than nearly $6,000 (1/3).  Nearly 70% of the cost of being in FP came from hotels/pensions and airfare. 
• The most difficult thing about not sailing is that it makes it more difficult to share with the people you visit with.  We don't have tools to help them fix things nor kitchen and food to offer them meals, etc. We also didn't have our diving gears or kayaks so we had to rent these when needed.  We are therefore much more dependent on the locals...