On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:28:30 -0500, RCE wrote:


Guess you don't have a daughter, thunder. :-)

Nope, but don't you think Eddie's post is just a little one sided? We're
talking about a plumber with $200k to spend on a boat. I'm guessing he
has a degree of competence. I've known several people who have plopped
down there money, turned the key, and gotten into trouble in local waters,
but I don't know anyone who has attempted a cross-ocean sail, without a
good degree of planning. Do you? Sailboats cross oceans all the time,
and with very few mishaps. If the son-in-law is expecting to sail to
Hawaii without any planning or sailing experience, he is being quite
foolish, but I suspect, with a statement like "Maybe by then he'll get a
little sense in his head and flys there instead", Eddie thinks anyone who
sails to Hawaii is a "nutcase".

I stand by my statement. If an in-law interfered in my marriage, as this
man is attempting to do, my wife would have a hard choice to make. I
married my wife, not her parents.