The escalating cost of berthing.

Poor Puffin is in a perilous state. I haven't posted for some years now, but after sailing around the Broads for a couple of years, along came COVID and a lack of interest to boot. I got fed up with trailing Puffin to a slip, upping the mast and rigging etc, just to take it all down several hours later and trail her home. So I looked to moor her permanently at Martham. Then of course, I got fed up with sailing on Hickling Broad and Horsey Mere, but could not pass under Potter Higham bridge without more mast lowering. So I moved to Brundall Gardens Marina, where the minimum length payment was 28 feet!
It became obvious that the cost of mooring way exceeded the enjoyment of sailing once a fortnight, which was only occasionally the best I could achieve, so the result has been a jammed keel, and a rather unfortunate accident where my 4 hp mariner outboard decided to jam in max revs, no response from the gear lever, whereupon I smacked into the end of a pontoon and punched a hole through the hull on a metal I-beam sticking out from the end! Luckily it was above the waterline! So after cancelling my expensive stay, I brought Puffin back home and it has languished here ever since. Yes, I probably could have moored it much much cheaper up at North end of Hickling, but it was so far away.
I suppose what I'm really moaning about is the ridiculous charges being made for small boats these days. It is no longer viable in my view. I also have a 30 foot motor sailor currently in refit, but dread berthing it for I know I'll be in for at least £1500 a year minimum. It's an expensive pastime.
So what am I going to do with Puffin? Seal up the keel, get rid of the mast, sails and outboard and convert it to an electric runabout with a sola panel over the cockpit. Unless I get an offer over £100.
Anyone like to comment?

Certainly, owning a boat is only economic if you succeed in using it more often than the cost of hiring one, from time to time (and accept that hiring comes with the problems of a suitable boat not being available at the time you want to use it).

Tolls, insurance, berthing, and maintenance all have to be factored into the equation.

Owning two boats, probably means that you will only have time left for eating and sleeping - and that's not good for your relationship with wives, husbands, family, employers, customers, etc.

I'd post an advert for the SeaHawk on the "For Sale" section of the forum and seriously consider whether hiring would be a better bet for you than keeping your other boat.