"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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On May 16, 2:06 pm, "JimH" wrote:


There are going to be a lot of large boats sitting mainly idle this
summer.

Depends how you define "large", I think.

Large is anything bigger than my boat. ;-)


The guys with the low HP cartoppers won't care what happens to fuel
prices as they can use a boat a lot and not burn more than 40-50
gallons in a season.

The guys with $xxx,xxx or $x,xxx,xxx invested in a boat are
probably running somewhat more efficient diesels....

Not necessarily on the lower to lower-mid range of 6 figures, especially
with new boats.

..... and can more often afford the fuel.

Again, not necessarily. Some are probably in debt to their ears and the
additional fuel costs will break them. We don't typically have the mega
million dollar boats on Lake Erie and the largest are generally in the 50 to
70 foot range.