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Default Rainy Day Sail

I have a married friend who always wanted to buy a nice sailboat big enough
for him and his wife and two dogs and go sailing off into the sunset when he
retired. Instead the wife talked him into buying a big bus of a motorhome.

Think the poor fella will be happy motoring around and fighting traffic?
Not to mention buying expensive diesel fuel for the thing that probably
gets four or five mpg? Not to mention those horrible KOA campgrounds.
Not to mention how much he will be contributing to the carbon dioxide
load and global warming...

You are one of the lucky ones to have a wife who has her head screwed on
straight. Poor Doug's wife's neck is cross-threaded. But, I guess it just
goes to show that one pays for one's mistake in a mate one's entire life.
(The woman is probably obese to boot!) Sorry, that wasn't nice.

Paladin



"Capt. Rob" wrote in message ps.com...
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| Actually, a Flying Scot would have been a much better
| choice. Bigger cockpit, no dangerous winches, no
| child-hazardous open transom.
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| Doug King is so smart he thinks a 35s5 has an open transom.
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| All things considered, it beat the alternative.
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| Your wife wanted a Seadoo and you managed to win THAT battle???
| BWAHAHAHA!
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| And I am
| younger than most people who can claim to be born during the
| Eisenhower Administration... last honest Republican to hold
| the job!
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| Nice to know I'll be sailing when you're long gone.
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| Nothing like a good reliable diesel engine when you want to
| GET there.
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| Fortunately some of us prefer sailing over motoring. It's not about
| "getting" anywhere. It's about the sailing yourself. Doug lost sight of
| that...or I bet his wife did. A trawler? Just buy another car and be
| done. That'll really get you there.
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| RB
| 35s5
| NY
|

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