nom=de=plume wrote:
"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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I once met a couple who had bought a boat on Lake Michigan, sailed
down the Miss. R and then across the gulf and then all over th
Bahamas. They were on their way back aqnd had stopped in
Apalachicola, FL and I asked how they had liked it. She had hated
it. He had liked it but her dislike was enough.
Another couple I know spent years re-building a boat to get ready to
go cruising and then finally after 10 years of planning, set off. For
some reason I still do not know, it din't work out and hey came back
within 4 months.
Another couple I know is working on their boat talking constantly
about how they will take off as soon as they retire. What if it
dosn't work out for them and they do not like it? That's a lot of
wasted effort and years.
Doesn't it make more sense to have a smaller boat you can afford with
far fewer things to go wrong so you can afford to go NOW? A smaller
boat you can afford allows you to arrange your work to allow more time
for shorter coat hopping trips until you finally get some real time.
I see too many big boats that sit at the dock rarely being sailed and
we all know the saying that the amount of use a sailboat gets is
inversely proportional to its size.


I wonder how many stories there are of people who actually enjoyed it. There
must be a few.

I think you're right. It does make sense to have a boat you can afford.
We're not looking at a megayacht, which I suppose if we went into hock, we
could "afford" (the very broadest sense of the word). As I said, two of us
are not really too concerned about "jobs" at this point. The other two are,
and we're trying to accomodate everyone.


Not worried about "jobs," eh?
Canuck57 has you libs pegged pretty well.
There's the welfare crowd, then the limo libs who don't have any work to
do except keep an eye on their investment portfolios, and cry about
unemployment and the homeless.
When they're not figuring out what yacht to lay a cool quarter million
on, that is.
You got bpuharic crying about his 401k dropping down to what - half a
mil? - while claiming he's "middle class," then you worrying about what
yacht to buy for a quarter mil.
And "letting it slip" that you could "afford" a megayacht.
All the while it's the "little guy" paying for it all.
Oh wait. You deserve what you have. That's right.
But then you claim that dog eat dog is the other side's philosophy.
You're just another braggart like Harry telling us how conspicuous
consumption works, and tooting your horn.
It's no wonder that Bill, who has patents and worked with Habitat, or
Richard and Frogwatch, whose initiative provided jobs for many and made
the world a better place, have more cred here than any limo lib.

Jim - Disgusted by rampant lib hypocrisy. No wonder there's a Tea Party.