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"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
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Maxipad has it right. Why have one boat that is 80% racer
and 80% cruiser?
The fun fullfillment factor is only .8 x .8 = .64 or 64%
overall happiness.
Two boats at 100% racer and cruiser each means 100% fun
all the time!

Two boats are twice the fun!

Only a person of means, a true man of leisure, could
possibly enjoy such a
situation. Real racing for racing's sake and real cruising
for cruisings
sake.

In a world of compromise, some men don't. Maxipad is
obviously one such
person.

Let us pause to reflect upon those less fortunate. Think
of the person who
wants one boat to do everything but winds up with one
doing nothing well.
How sad is it to see sails flapping on a tricked out
"racer-cruiser" knowing
it is lugging along marble counters, microwaves,
generators, extra
staterooms, and all that associated bilge. It's like
putting fins on a horse
so it can be called an aquatic animal. Even the blundering
hippopotamus is
more adept in the water than a horse with fins.

In the merry go round of life, one must reach for the gold
ring, not the
pole that holds it. Unfortunately, the merry go round of
life only goes
round but once and those who hesitate at the ring spend
the final turn
knowing they cheated themselves.

Oz knows this all too well. Why have a souped up compact
consumer car when
you can have a real race car? Maxipad knows this too, why
have a
racer-cruiser when you can have a real racer and cruiser.
Others know this
well too, why pretend to live in the country under the
smog blanket of a
major city when one can live in the real country and own
another home really
in the city?

Unfortunately RB thinks his Swiss Army Knife style of life
is a full set of
Snap-On tools. There is only one best, there is no
substitute. As the Queen
was told at the first America's Cup Race, "Your majesty,
there is no second
place". And so it is in life. Compromise is compromise and
it will always be
the best that gets compromised.

Amen!