"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
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The standard, well-known, and universally accepted definition of cruising
is to fix your boat in exotic locations.

Eh, to OWN a boat is to be fixing it, location doesn't make a difference.



True, but cruising is fixing it in places other than the home port.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Capt. JG" wrote in
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"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
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The standard, well-known, and universally accepted definition of
cruising is to fix your boat in exotic locations.

Eh, to OWN a boat is to be fixing it, location doesn't make a
difference.

True, but cruising is fixing it in places other than the home port.

And probably one of the items that I left out of my list is paying
outrageous sums of money to have parts shipped into your exotic location.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org

"Geoff Schultz" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
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"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
...
The standard, well-known, and universally accepted definition of
cruising is to fix your boat in exotic locations.

Eh, to OWN a boat is to be fixing it, location doesn't make a
difference.

True, but cruising is fixing it in places other than the home port.

And probably one of the items that I left out of my list is paying
outrageous sums of money to have parts shipped into your exotic location.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org


Heh... I watched that happen in the Med., which wasn't really *that* exotic.
Fortunately, I wasn't the one paying.


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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Capt. JG" wrote in
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"Geoff Schultz" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
:

"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
...
The standard, well-known, and universally accepted definition of
cruising is to fix your boat in exotic locations.

Eh, to OWN a boat is to be fixing it, location doesn't make a
difference.

True, but cruising is fixing it in places other than the home port.

And probably one of the items that I left out of my list is paying
outrageous sums of money to have parts shipped into your exotic
location.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org

Heh... I watched that happen in the Med., which wasn't really *that*
exotic. Fortunately, I wasn't the one paying.

The degree of exoticness is directly proportional to the amount that the
shipping company charges to get a package there! :-) I unfortunately have
several stories where the cost of the shipping/duty/taxi exceeds the cost
of the item by several multiples.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org

"Geoff Schultz" wrote in message
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The degree of exoticness is directly proportional to the amount that the
shipping company charges to get a package there! :-) I unfortunately
have
several stories where the cost of the shipping/duty/taxi exceeds the cost
of the item by several multiples.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org

And then, there's just plain stingy... had an owner (a very rich one) insist
on bringing every frikin' sail he owned on a delivery when it wouldn't have
cost him that much to ship them in a container. As a result, we were
walking, slipping, falling on sails for 2 weeks. I think we had near 2 dozen
sails on that boat. Fortunately, the weather was mild, so it wasn't truly
dangerous.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

Geoff Schultz wrote in
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And probably one of the items that I left out of my list is paying
outrageous sums of money to have parts shipped into your exotic
location.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org

Heh... I watched that happen in the Med., which wasn't really *that*
exotic. Fortunately, I wasn't the one paying.

The degree of exoticness is directly proportional to the amount that
the shipping company charges to get a package there! :-) I
unfortunately have several stories where the cost of the
shipping/duty/taxi exceeds the cost of the item by several multiples.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org



Don't forget to include the bribe money you had to give the local custom's
thieves to let the toilet seal off the airplane....