Thomas Wentworth wrote:
ON LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE - Rising gas prices are not just hitting car drivers,
who are bemoaning paying $3 a gallon to go to work. They're hitting people
at play, especially boaters, who now can pay around $4 a gallon.

I'd say boating is in for a hit. Many folks don't have the time /
patience to sail. Like another poster here said, I couldn't make it
from Palm to the islands for a weekend on my 42 foot cutter, but the
powerboats could.

I think that with sailing too tedious for many and power boating too
expensive, the entire industry will take a dive.

My friend is shopping for a power boat now. The prices are WAY WAY down.
I suppose it's the fuel.

-paul

Paul Cassel wrote in
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My friend is shopping for a power boat now. The prices are WAY WAY down.
I suppose it's the fuel.


Ah, the beat of the cadence drum synchronizing the oars, intermixed with
the occasional crack of the first mate's whip to encourage them pulling
harder to increase speed.....

We have many strong illegals that won't be missed, you know.....as they
row, quietly, out of the harbor past Ft Sumter.....

All one has to do is collect them, before the Lawn-O-Green or construction
slavers show up at 5AM....

How many oarlocks can be installed into the Hatteras 60 hulls, after the
now useless engines have been removed?

It's always been about the money, you know......