I'm going to ask and answer the obvious first question: What if we had
known?

We would have probably bought a $7500 boat to fit our budget and then
ended up with a boat too small to get used much in our circumstances.
In that way, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I also love the
boat. Naive optimism can be a wonderful thing.

What if we had bought a $30,000 boat of the same size? I did some
consulting straightening out a $3,000,000 yacht that had some sillier
things on it than this boat. We probably would have ended up spending
another $30,000 of time and money. I think there is an immutable law
of the universe, like conservation of energy, at work here and you try
to dodge around it at your peril.

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Roger Long