It is very seldom that we see our boat from this perspective nowadays, we price conscious sailors wish to keep our precious dimes for other things in life than expensive marinas and when there are as many good anchorages around here in the Caribbean as there are, we rather spend our time with the hook firmly dug into the ground. But sometimes, like this week when there has been absolutely zero wind for the past five, six days, we take the opportunity to get to the dock to top up our batteries. For you non sailors reading, it is the sunshine/solar panel and wind/wind-generator that keeps our refrigerator, lamps, laptop batteries, water heaters, water pressure and other electric things going and without either sun or wind or sometimes both, it becomes quite hard to live a "normal" life. Since we almost never use our engine to charge our batteries and we hate the sound of the generator, we try to limit our electricity use as much as possible to not have to dock the boat too often. In the Mediterranean while we still had regular incomes, we used to spend maybe 80% of our cruising nights in marinas, nowadays I would say that we spend not more than one night per month, sometimes only once per two months. Lots to learn from this liveaboard life, to save money wherever we can is definitely one of the most important things to get used to.