On Jan 24, 7:22 pm, k4556 wrote:
On 24 Jan 2007 10:13:44 -0800, "Jay Chan"
wrote:
On Jan 23, 8:12 pm, k4556 wrote:
On 23 Jan 2007 01:31:09 -0800, "
wrote:
Thanks for the replies! Frank, glad to hear from you! (See some of
our recent rambles athttp://terryking.usand
http://terryking.us/photoalbum)
k4556 wrote:
Terry,
I have lived in Asia for the past thirty years and while certainly
both work boats and yachts were built in Hong Kong in the past those
days are long gone ...
Great information.. I've learned more on the groups than with a lot of
Googling... I didn't mean to be too much down the nose at the RHK
club. I just had read an article about all the new Chinese Billionaires
and how they can't get dock space in HK for their new 90 footers...
I'll look for the references you made..
Are there boat 'yards' / builders up the Pearl river a way too?
Thanks!Terry,
I believe that "Seahorse", who builds both in fiberglass and steel,
yards are on the Pearl River a short ferry trip from Hong Kong.
While there probably are Chinese Billionaires at the RHKYC there are
also a lot of ordinary folks there too and probably worth a visit.
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Ordinary folks in Hong Kong don't own a car, and even less likely to
own a boat.
Although people in Hong Kong tend to earn a good income, they spend
most of the money in housing and don't have much disposable income left
-- meaning: no boating.
Jay Chan
I don't want to get into some sort of a flame war here but there are
probably more boats per capita in Hong Kong then anywhere I've
visited. Visit any of the junk anchorages around the island, the
Typhoon Shelter, etc..
While these are hardly "yachts" they are boats and there is an entire
infrastructure to support them.
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No flame war from me either. I am just trying to let the OP knows what
class of people he may deal with if he join a boat club in Hong Kong.
This is like judging the whole US based on the impression of visiting
New York City -- not a correct impression.
There are quite a number of boat people in Hong Kong. But they are
probably not doing this totally by choice. In the old time, they used
to be forced to stay on the boat because of various reasons (lack of
farm land, economic, discrimination, ...etc). Now, no one pushed them
away by force. Nevertheless, they tend to be poor. And with land
price sky high and they are poor, they are forced to stay on the boats.
Theirs are definitely not considered as recreational boating, and are
not the kind of people you may meet in the boating club.
Yes, you will see a lot of boats parked in typhoon shelters from
satellite pictures. But when you look at them from the ground level,
you will see that they are not the kind of boats that you have in mind.
They are pretty much the live-on-board boats for poor boat people.
They are the products of extremely expensive land in Hong Kong.
On the other hand, people in US tend to have a higher income, more
disposable income, and the "relatively" high currency exchange rate.
This makes boating a sport that is open to a lot of people. Even
middle class American can afford boating, and this is a good thing.
In other words, you probably meet a lot of ordinary people in boating
club in US. But the same thing cannot be said about the people in
boating club in Hong Kong.
Jay Chan