Yikes!!! You should rename the boat AWKWARD!
All the best,
Edd
Edd M. Schillay
Starship Enterprise
C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B
City Island, NY
Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log Website
On Feb 21, 2013, at 10:10 AM, "Gary Nylander" <gnylan...@atlanticbb.net> wrote:
> We (my ex-admiral and boat partner (and her new hubby)) spent about 4 grand
> on Penniless last year - haul out and in, bottom paint, slip fees,
> shrinkwrap, dry storage, diver, etc. - no capital improvements of any
> significance - I do 90% of the labor (I'm handy and retired, he's a doctor),
> and we used her about 50-60 days - Wednesday night racing, Sunday racing,
> Frostbites, cruising, daysails...so that's about 80 bucks per usage. There
> are not a lot of things you and your friends can do for 80 bucks, good deal???
>
> Gary
> Penniless 30-1
> St. Michaels, MD
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Della Barba, Joe
> To: Dennis C. ; cnc-list@cnc-list.com
> Subject: Re: Stus-List Economic justification for owning a boat
>
> You wake up, quietly get in the dinghy with the dogs, push off and drift 50
> feet away before starting the outboard, and head to shore. The dogs pee while
> you get the morning paper and some coffee from the coffee shop. Heading back
> out to the mooring field with the morning sun flooding the anchorage with an
> orange glow you gently climb back aboard to surprise your still sleeping wife
> with the treats from shore and think you wouldn’t be anywhere else for ANY
> amount of money. Or the sane people realize they could go on a cruise ship or
> other expensive vacation two or three times a year for what it costs to run
> the boat. So we the not-quite-right sail on and the sheeple get herded here
> and there on the latest discount tour to some tourist hell.
>
> Joe Della Barba
> Coquina
> C&C 35 MK I
>
>
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