Ed asked:
In your yacht club, how much does it cost a year, and how
do you get into it?

You have to have a sponsor to vouch for you. Our initiation fee was $350.00
(they had a sale) and a year's membership is 550.00. Storage and slips are
well below the price of any marina within 150 miles. Most of the membership
sails and there is a huge ASA program for kids...Butterfly fleet, JY16
fleet, Opti fleet, Melges 24's and J 24 fleet. Haven't seen too much of the
"rich" around...mist people are middle class family types...I'm sure there
must be a rich eprson or two, but they hide it well...or maybe they're just
couth. What is your definition of "rich"?
--
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

The man's right. If a $1,000 one time initiation fee and $400 a year is
beyond his means, he'll feel out of place, the members prolly won't want him

Excuse me while I try not to aspirate my puke while I ROTFL. I think rich
people are pathetic. Not people with money--a person can't do much about the
money they either have or don't have--I mean the rich person. That person who
is panicky affraid of losing what he or she knows damn well they will lose in
the end. That person who actually thinks their rotting corpse will be better
off in a tomb--or a yacht club--really needs to look at the realities of life.
If I had millions, which I don't, I would still never belong to the NY yacht
club, because if I have to buy a sponsor, that seems way too much like buying a
friend. Oh, silly me, that's what being rich is all about--buying friends. I
almost forgot. I think that's a very similar notion to buying a wife on an
hourly basis--if you get my drift.

Ed stated:
because if I have to buy a sponsor, that seems way too much like buying a
friend.

Gee...our sponsor owns a very small marina of his own up on White Lake and
drives around in cut-offs in his beat up Ford pick-up...he's just a plain,
old nice guy and he'd probably rearrange the face if someone suggested he
could be "bought"....we were referred to him by a mutual friend, and also
have known the manager of the yacht club for years...since he was a
teenager, in fact....You have a very warped idea of the world, Ed Gordon....
--
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Gee...our sponsor owns a very small marina of his own up on White Lake and
drives around in cut-offs in his beat up Ford pick-up...he's just a plain,
old nice guy and he'd probably rearrange the face if someone suggested he
could be "bought"....

Uh, yeah, sounds like a nice guy. Actually, he sounds like a dangerous guy, but
I'm trying to be agreeable.

On 19 May 2004 01:59:21 GMT, topspam (EdGordonRN)
wrote this crap:

The man's right. If a $1,000 one time initiation fee and $400 a year is
beyond his means, he'll feel out of place, the members prolly won't want him

Excuse me while I try not to aspirate my puke while I ROTFL. I think rich
people are pathetic. Not people with money--a person can't do much about the
money they either have or don't have--I mean the rich person. That person who
is panicky affraid of losing what he or she knows damn well they will lose in
the end. That person who actually thinks their rotting corpse will be better
off in a tomb--or a yacht club--really needs to look at the realities of life.
If I had millions, which I don't, I would still never belong to the NY yacht
club, because if I have to buy a sponsor, that seems way too much like buying a
friend. Oh, silly me, that's what being rich is all about--buying friends. I
almost forgot. I think that's a very similar notion to buying a wife on an
hourly basis--if you get my drift.


You don't have to worry about it. You'll never be rich.





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

You don't have to worry about it. You'll never be rich.

Whew! That's a load off. Thanks.

"Horvath" wrote
. I think that's a very similar notion to buying a wife on an
hourly basis--

I pay monthly.

SV

What is your definition of "rich"?

Thanks for the info. My definition of rich is having what you want--what you
really want, not what others tell you you should want. In my case, my job gets
me closer to God, my wife is from God, I'm sure of it. Sailing gets me closer
to God and I get to do it all the time. And I think God talks to me all the
time. There is absolutely no possession I want that I don't already have or
can't buy. My life is rich, in my opinion. I would consider it a curse if I had
to have a BMW (which I don't want) a huge house (which I don't want) and sweat
the stock market every day (which I don't want to do) and own a 50 ft sailboat
(which I don't want and would never have time to sail) just to prove to others
that I am rich. I am not financially wealthy, but I am truly happy--and things
are poised to get even better. That's being rich, in my opinion, and my opinion
about my state of being rich is all that matters.

Ed, If that's your definition of rich, then that's great...however, there
are those who also consider their Beamer, their 4K sq ft house, and their
accoutrements as being gifts from God. They also consider their lives to be
rich in more than just money. Don't be so hasty to judge others just
because they like their possessions or have more than you. That makes your
definition smack of insincerity.

--
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

however, there
are those who also consider their Beamer, their 4K sq ft house, and their
accoutrements as being gifts from God.


Man, it's easy to see why this country is a conservative pool of filth when
people are thanking invisble "forces" for their own hard work.
Poor Katy was brainwashed. She would not know of "god" unless it had been
taught to her.
Oh, George Carlin, where art thou?

RB