Yeah, Delos are pretty open about there being a lot of maintenance, and video editing (~80 hours work total per episode), they just don't show that most of the

Yeah, Delos are pretty open about there being a lot of maintenance, and video editing (~80 hours work total per episode), they just don't show that most of the time because people (like me) want to see the other stuff. As a boat owner, a lot of this is true. My boat is on the hard right now and the yard will handle some of the stuff that needs fixing, but I'm doing a lot myself for two reasons: 1. It costs me less real money 2. I enjoy it. I'm a CTO, I spend my life in meetings, spreadsheets, documents, and sometimes a text editor, terminal or database console. On Friday I am heading to the boat with a friend. We will drink some beer, then on Saturday we will break out the spanners and service the seacocks, replace some interior trim we took out last time, fix the cockpit manual bilge pump and a few other things. Honestly, this is the stuff I've been looking forward to more than anything in the last two weeks since I was last there. If you want relaxing, charter a boat, pay a skipper, or get a hotel, no judgement :) I've never really been able to relax for more than a few hours without wanting to do something though, and sailing, or the inevitable maintenance, is a really happy thing for me to do. Of course another advantage of doing this stuff yourself is that you can afford to hang around the Bahamas, or sail around the world, something that you can't do so well if you aren't willing to do maintenance yourself.