Peter Hendra wrote in
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Personally, what I like
most about owning my own boat is the wonderful sense of freedom it
affords me. I can go where I want to, when I want to; dollars and
weather and the the bloody pirates and such scum aside.


I'm not quite so optimistic about it. Boating on a sailboat over 10'
long is very burdensome. There's always something wrong with them,
something that needs immediate attention...and immediate money. BOAT =
Bring Out Another Thousand (pounds, dollars, rupees, etc.). Those that
can afford them that I know, are all saddled with chasing the dollars to
keep them. Oh, there are a few true hermits who don't seem to need
money. Their boats look it. More power to them.

A boat is a LOT of WORK!...especially YOUR boat, the one with the clogged
injector, stopped up head, leaky (pick anything that can leak here),
broken (pick anything that can break here). I don't think it's a lot of
freedom, at all.

Doing it my way has a great advantage, the freedom to walk away without
worry. Some times I don't go to the docks for weeks, sometimes months.
I don't HAVE to check on boats I don't own. THAT's freedom!

Larry
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