On 21 Mar 2007 09:56:27 -0700, "Two meter troll"
wrote:

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

I agree with that; however i would wonder how it is with sailboats as
compaired with power boats.
I have owned, leased, or been in charge of, a fishing boat,
exploration boat, research vessel, for a really big part of my adult
life. ya ive learned how to fix almost everything with duct tape and
wire. but then i have abused the boats ive been on to get the job at
hand done. are sail boats really that much more work than an old
30'-50' salmon troller or a 100' king crabber?

Yes Larry, you are right. Boats always need money spending on them.
But then so do cars, houses and lawnmowers, wives, children and
girlfiends. Does anyone record in a profit and loss statement the cost
of a wife? ( Quite possibly they should); or of the money spent on
ones hobby or sport - golf clubs, computer gear, ham rigs and so on.

Though I built my own boat and where possible, repair it myself, when
I have to spend money on it or on things boating related, I don't
begrudge it - I am not a billionaire.


By the way "Two metre troll"
Please enlighten my confusion.
As I am not a native speaker of American English, are the fish your
boats have been used for really 30 to 50 foot long salmon and 100 foot
in span king crabs. Ours don't grow nearly that large.
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cheers
Peter