"Roger Long" wrote in message
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I just drove by a Jet Ski on someone's lawn for $18,500.00 or BO. Do
people really pay more for one of these obnoxious things *used* than I
did for a boat that I could live on and go around the world in if I was
inclined?

I guess it shouldn't be a surprise considering the cost of motorcycles
and outboard motors but it just points out what a bargain used
fiberglass boats are. Looks like someone on Ebay is going to get a 41
foot ketch for not much more than I paid for my 32 footer.

There is no financial excuse not to be out there cruising under sail
if that's what you want to do.


I wish you wouldn't encourage them, Roger. I think there are too many
people on the water already who are good only at signing their name on
the line at the bottom of the loan papers.

It takes more than the financial means to buy a sailboat in order to
sail it safely and sanely. In this very group there's that fool Skip
Grundick and now somebody named Grandma Beasley both of whom think it is
an accomplishment to write long posts about how badly they screwed up on
their most recent sail. They call a comedy of errors sailing. They
obviously can afford boats but they can't handle them because they're
stupid and they act like they're PROUD of being stupid. Sooner or later
they're going to get hurt themselves or get some innocent bystander hurt
or worse. You can only blunder your way though anything for so long
before it catches up on you.

Some wise advice for you. If you know of a great deal on a boat, keep it
to yourself. Same thing goes if you know of a great anchorage. As soon
as you spread the word you have every other idiot in the world buying
the boat and becoming a hazard to serious sailors and also blundering
into your great anchorage and anchoring right on top of you and dragging
around, making generator noises 24/7, racing around in their inflatables
at all hours of the day and night and generally being a big nuisance at
best and a hazard to life and limb at worse. Let's not encourage these
idiots, please.

Wilbur Hubbard