On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:58:23 -0400, John H wrote:

Well, when the other gender gets involved, some of the objective analysis
gets shoved aside by subjective desires. It would be interesting to know
all the criteria you considered and how you weighted them. You undoubtedly
did some mental weighting, but seeing it on paper would be interesting.

When you buy a boat that you expect to live on for months at a time it
is *critical* that the admiral be involved. Whenever she says
anything negative about the boat I can always say to her: "this is the
one you wanted", and that is important. :-)

I never did a rigorous weighted matrix exercise but the priorities
were clear in my mind and we looked at a lot of boats. Given the
subsequent rise in fuel prices I am really glad that we did not get a
sportfish or motoryacht although we did consider it.