"Capt. Rob" wrote in message oups.com...
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| I've made money on every yacht I've owned...except Etchells.
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| I also made money on each boat. The C&C 32 doubled our money back.

Liar! You and other's who are locked into the American way of
consumerism (slavery to the government) always forget to add in
the costs. You buy a boat for fifty grand and you sell it for a hundred
grand a couple of three years later and you say you doubled your money.

But, you forgot to subtract the money you spent on upgrades, repair,
maintenance, dockage, haulouts, storing, insurance, taxes, fuel,
etc. etc. etc. Very easy to ignore all this stuff and claim large profits.

Same goes for houses these days. People are always claiming absurd things
like they doubled their money. BWahahahhahahahahah! They forget all
about the fact that the mortgage, for example, where they borrowed
a hundred grand amounted to about three hundred grand over a fifteen
year period. They forget all about insurance, taxes, maintenance, utility
bills, transportation to work because the live so many miles away, labor
spent on cleaning, mowing grass, upgrading constantly rotting wood, etc.
etc. etc.

The only sensible thing to do with a boat is to live aboard and sail from
a mooring, or to constantly cruise from one place to another. This way
you eliminate most of the bills including the cost of living ashore and
paying for dockage. Instead of a boat being a hole in the water into
which one pours money it becomes a hole in the water out of which one
can draw money because it saves all the typical expenses of living ashore.

But, you lubbers are too stupid to even realize this and too chicken
to live a real sailor's life. But, that's fine with me because I wouldn't
want you out here with me in the first place. You're not good enough.

CN