Frogwatch wrote:
At some point, you exceed the optimum number of "toys" so that your
ability to maintain them begins to exceed your time to use them. I
believe this has happed to me. With two small homebuilt sailboats and
a 28' S2 sailboat, a homebuilt dinghy, a 20' Tolman Skiff (homeebuilt)
and a canoe, a 100 yr old log cabin in Wyoming that needs rebuilding,
an old Nissan truck with 309,000 miles on it that I love and a need to
maintain camping and caving equipment (did I mention a 20 yr old Dodge
Ram I inherited), I have no time to use any of it.
Yesterday, we wanted to go sailing but after I had de-fouled the prop
by going overboard in the canal, the engine overheated. Dang, I knew
I shoulda had the bottom painted thsi year (its been 4 years, a long
time in N. FL.). Engine intake was clogged with fouling and I couldnt
find a piece of stiff wire long enough to run through the intake from
inside (I wasnt going back in that nasty water again). So, sometime
this week, I gotta take time offa work and go to the coast and do
this, oughta replace the impeller at same time, scrape barnacles too.
My prop is just about shot from corrosion and dings so I'll haveta
sail her about 40 miles sometime in early Oct to have her hauled, prop
replaced, I will paint the bottom, and replace cutless bearing.
Somehow this week, I gotta set up caving gear for 5 people cuz my 20
yr old daughter has decided she wants to take her new BF on a caving
trip (gotta take the younger kids too).
Somehow, I think that I can do all of this if I optimally use each
evening and weekend to do stuff but something has to give. Money has
not been an issue because I do all the work myself cuz I dont like the
work anybody esle does and I have built 4 of my boats and my truck was
paid off 16 yrs ago. What should I give up to make room for doing
stuff?
OH, I have this notion of building a kayak for my 11 yr old daughter
cuz she likes kayaks............

Aren't you the guy who buries this stuff in the long grass out in the
backyard? I think you'd better get over the fact that others don't do as
good a job as you...that's a moot point at the moment...hire someone to
clean the bottom of your S-2 quarterly..it doesn't cst that much..I
think we paid $50 last time we had it done...time is money and if you
don't have time, then spend the money...

If your daughter likes kayaks, then buy her one...you don't have time to
build one for her...and make sure she takes care of it, because you
don;'t have time to...

Sell whatever is in your backyard that you have not touched in the past
year...it's like old clothes..if you haven't used it, get rid of it...

How often do you use the cabin in Wyoming? If you use it as a base cmp
for your caving, then keep it but maintain it at a minimum..after all it
is camping...take the canoe out there...you ahve a skiff and maybe soon
a kayak in FL so you don;'t need a canoe there...

You're like a person that goes to a banquet after he's already eaten at
McDonald's...