The two best days in a boaters life:
The day they buy their boat; and the day they sell their boat.
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My uncle used to own a fairly large shrimp/crabbing boat, and he ran a fishing crew for nearly 20 years. He said "They say the best days in a boat owners life are the day you buy, and the day you sell. There is a Third option, the day you realize you can rent you boat to a crew, and not have to deal with most of the issues, and still make money." Yeah, he eventually was in too bad of shape to continue, so he started renting his boat out to crews, they covered fuel, and short term maintenance, while he was responsible for the big stuff. Made a nice side income from it, and started a plumbing business.
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This guy boats. Here's another classic:
BOAT: Bust out another thousand.
A friend of mine used to work in a yacht club, albeit a very small one on a river, not the sea. He was firmly convinced that at least half of the boats belonged to the owners of craft businesses. He was of the opinion that the boats were bought with black money, either to be able to do something with the money or to sell the boats again later and launder the money that way. I don't know if that's true.
Who owns the lake?
Have a friend who would go north in the summer to work on forest fires and would come back to his sailboat at the end of the season to spend winter at the marina, he doesn't even know how to sail...
I suspect technically insurance companies own most of the boats, they just don't know it yet
It's usually a divorced guy
I live somewhere poor but by the ocean. Boats everywhere. Everyone has one. They're all poor as shit yet they still have boats. How is this possible?
In the 40s, the Soviets tried to use Grapes of Wrath as anti American propaganda on their people. It failed because their citizens were impressed that even the poor abused people could afford a car.
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Yeah. With 10 billion people in the world, only 0.0001% of people need to be boat owners for there to be a million boat owners... And I'd be willing to be the actual % is higher than that
The amount of people in a populated area is beyond comprehension. You can look at the numbers, but being aware of how many people there actually are is a rare epiphany. I was driving in rush hour traffic a few days ago and had a touch of it - I could see the line of lights both ways stretching out for a few miles and realized that I was but one in this sea of people, and it was but an instant of an hours-long flow of cars.
A marina full of boats isn't that many compared to lanes of stopped cars for miles.
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Considering older boats can to be cheaper than used cars. My friend bought a 27 ft sail boat for $3000.
Yeah but that's a deceptive number. You can park a car in your driveway, put gas in it, and spend a few hundred bucks on maintenance every year. Keeping a 27' boat in the water, and functioning, is far more expensive. Trailers, dock fees, cleaning, wintering, replacing broken things, engine work, it all adds up. The longer it goes without maintenance, the more expensive it becomes. You can't sail a boat until it sinks into the water the way you might drive a car until it dies. The end of a boat's life is often the most expensive part.
They say a boat is a hole in the water you throw money into.
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Sea people
In ur marina collapsin ur bronze age
This is a different kind of boat, but I met someone recently who lives in a houseboat like this and apparently it works out cheaper than buying a house near where they work. It's moored on the Thames, some way upriver from London.
The funniest part was how relatively normal this person was. They work as a lawyer.
Narrowboats are expensive tho.
They're the vw campers of the waterway.
Expensive and usually very old and very rotten.
plus you can only really do inland waterways with them. i much prefer sailboats
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