"Peter Aitken" wrote in message
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"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:24:14 GMT, "Peter Aitken"
wrote:

I had to laugh at this. We have narrowed our boat choices to two, Pursuit
and Grady White. I am arranging sea trials so we can decide which one we
want. The Grady White salesman tells me:

"Please try the Pursuit first. Then when you try the Grady White it will
be
clear how much better it is. I guarantee you'll end up a Grady White
owner"

Then I call the Pursuit salesman to arrange the trial.. He tells me:

"Please try the Grady White first. Then when you try the Pursuit it will
be
clear how much better it is. I guarantee you'll end up a Pursuit owner"

What's a buyer to think g?

Don't forget that, "after the sale" thing..... You are not only
buying a boat, but you are partnering with the service department of
your chosen dealership...

I know, but how to judge them ahead of time? One possible factor is that
we will be keeping the boat at the marina that is also the Pursuit dealer.


That's not always a good thing. The last two marinas that I stored my boat
at consistently overcharged me(sometimes 3 to 4 times the estimate). I had
very little recourse, because if I made a stink, they'd toss me out of the
storage...knowing there was a 6 month wait to get into another one.

Sorry, you didn't get the joke. I quoted the text off the website and it has
a typo...'gallery' instead of 'galley' hence my remark about art...oh well
;-/

--Mike

P.S. I *do* think it's a fine boat however.


"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 03:54:11 GMT, "mgg" wrote:

Hey Tom,

From the site you posted below:

stand up head and complete gallery

Exactly what type of gallery comes with the contender. I'm a fan of the
neo-impressionists, but if it's a really good boat, I'm flexible.... ;-)

It's a really good boat and the galley/head is pretty standard for
this type of boat. Small range and refrigerator - you could do a
whole meal on one as long as you didn't need to bake anything. There
is an available microwave. The head is a good size - I can get in it
and I'm 6'3", 250.

Look at it this way. If there are two of you, it's great - nicely
appointed cabin space with berth, smallish setee, etc. If there are
more than two of you, this isn't the boat.

Later,

Tom

Peter Aitken wrote in message
. com...
I had to laugh at this. We have narrowed our boat choices to two, Pursuit
and Grady White. I am arranging sea trials so we can decide which one we
want. The Grady White salesman tells me:

"Please try the Pursuit first. Then when you try the Grady White it will
be
clear how much better it is. I guarantee you'll end up a Grady White
owner"

Then I call the Pursuit salesman to arrange the trial.. He tells me:

"Please try the Grady White first. Then when you try the Pursuit it will
be
clear how much better it is. I guarantee you'll end up a Pursuit owner"

What's a buyer to think g?

--
Peter Aitken
Visit my recipe and kitchen myths page at www.pgacon.com/cooking.htm



The difference won't be the boat ... it will be the sea conditions at the
time of the trial.

Unless you can try both boats on the same day, in the same area... it ain't
a fair comparison.

Pick a rotten, windy, choppy day for both and buy the one you feel more
comfortable in.

Eisboch

On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 01:17:37 GMT, "Eisboch"
wrote:


Peter Aitken wrote in message
.com...
I had to laugh at this. We have narrowed our boat choices to two, Pursuit
and Grady White. I am arranging sea trials so we can decide which one we
want. The Grady White salesman tells me:

"Please try the Pursuit first. Then when you try the Grady White it will
be
clear how much better it is. I guarantee you'll end up a Grady White
owner"

Then I call the Pursuit salesman to arrange the trial.. He tells me:

"Please try the Grady White first. Then when you try the Pursuit it will
be
clear how much better it is. I guarantee you'll end up a Pursuit owner"

What's a buyer to think g?

--
Peter Aitken
Visit my recipe and kitchen myths page at www.pgacon.com/cooking.htm



The difference won't be the boat ... it will be the sea conditions at the
time of the trial.

Unless you can try both boats on the same day, in the same area... it ain't
a fair comparison.

Pick a rotten, windy, choppy day for both and buy the one you feel more
comfortable in.

Dude!! The barbarians are at the gate!!

Glad you are back. :)

Later,

Tom

On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 22:35:06 GMT, Gene Kearns wrote:

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:35:20 -0400, "NOYB" wrote:


"Peter Aitken" wrote in message
r.com...
"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:24:14 GMT, "Peter Aitken"
wrote:

I had to laugh at this. We have narrowed our boat choices to two, Pursuit
and Grady White. I am arranging sea trials so we can decide which one we
want. The Grady White salesman tells me:

"Please try the Pursuit first. Then when you try the Grady White it will
be
clear how much better it is. I guarantee you'll end up a Grady White
owner"

Then I call the Pursuit salesman to arrange the trial.. He tells me:

"Please try the Grady White first. Then when you try the Pursuit it will
be
clear how much better it is. I guarantee you'll end up a Pursuit owner"

What's a buyer to think g?

Don't forget that, "after the sale" thing..... You are not only
buying a boat, but you are partnering with the service department of
your chosen dealership...

I know, but how to judge them ahead of time? One possible factor is that
we will be keeping the boat at the marina that is also the Pursuit dealer.


That's not always a good thing. The last two marinas that I stored my boat
at consistently overcharged me(sometimes 3 to 4 times the estimate). I had
very little recourse, because if I made a stink, they'd toss me out of the
storage...knowing there was a 6 month wait to get into another one.



This *is* a cunundrum.. akin to Pavlog's dogs... are *they* captive
because you are giving them *extra* business by storing your boat
there or are *you* captive because they consider maintenance a given,
since you are storing your boat there....?

As NOYB implicitly suggests.... I'd consider storage separate from
maintenance...

in fact... as I consider this... perhaps preventive maintenance should
be kept separate from non-scheduled maintenance......

certainly not a binary decision since there are so many variables
specific to your situation.... I suggest including this into the
equations provided by Tom.....

The final decision *will* be the result of binary thinking!

--
John H
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes (A true binary thinker!)

On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 14:25:55 GMT, Gene Kearns wrote:

On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 07:26:13 -0400, John H
wrote:


The final decision *will* be the result of binary thinking!

Unlikely, unless, of course, you and R2D2 share the same genetic
map....

....perhaps you have mastered the binary encoding of emotion and
passion.... all of which muddy the transitorized concept of making a
major purchase.....

....not the least of your problems, on this one, is the insurmountable
complexities and technological absurdities of digitizing the first
mate's cognitive matricies and writing a satisfactory interface such
that you get *any* kind of binary output.

Come to think of it, any sort of binary information output by the
captain for processing by the first mate is likely to result in an
unrecoverable system crash and any further input is unlikely to take
place before significant repair and code overhaul.

He will end up with a choice between two boats. He may consider a bunch of
alternatives and have to weigh the merits of each. That is the analysis process.
The decision is made after the analysis (I hope).

--
John H
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes (A true binary thinker!)

On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 14:25:55 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 07:26:13 -0400, John H
wrote:


The final decision *will* be the result of binary thinking!

Unlikely, unless, of course, you and R2D2 share the same genetic
map....

....perhaps you have mastered the binary encoding of emotion and
passion.... all of which muddy the transitorized concept of making a
major purchase.....

....not the least of your problems, on this one, is the insurmountable
complexities and technological absurdities of digitizing the first
mate's cognitive matricies and writing a satisfactory interface such
that you get *any* kind of binary output.

Come to think of it, any sort of binary information output by the
captain for processing by the first mate is likely to result in an
unrecoverable system crash and any further input is unlikely to take
place before significant repair and code overhaul.

~~snerk~~