"markvictor" wrote in
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another superior Brunswick product

There was a Brunswick guy in an expensive suit at an in-the-water boat show
I went to. He was watching his dealer hawking the products and answering
questions to anyone walking up.

I told him I owned a Sea Ray, but didn't bother to mention it was the Sea
Rayder..(c;

I asked him, "How come a company that can make a bowling pin you can hit
all night long with a 16 pound ball fired at it by a 270 pound bubba, crash
it into a pit to be scraped up by a pinsetter machine and mauled into a
metal rack to start over again....can't produce a BOAT that is made of the
same kind of non-destructive material that wouldn't be even scratched if it
banged up against THIS dock?", pointing to the dock edge we were standing
on.

The look on his face was PRICELESS....(c;

Well worth the $9.50 admission ticket....

LMAO!...bet the cat took off and ran with his tongue...
regards,
markvictor

"markvictor" wrote in
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LMAO!...bet the cat took off and ran with his tongue...
regards,
markvictor



I mean it just sounds logical to me. We're not making the boats better,
more survivable since 1965, we're making them WORSE!

Won't make any difference. All over the country the waterfront
millionaires, ****ed at seeing the floating trailer parks anchored off
their big tax liabilities, are gonna make anchoring within 500 miles of
shore, illegal. I know someone who got busted at Hilton Head Island, SC.
He anchored the boat in a "no anchor zone" off some developers private
fiefdom. How stupid.

When I took the teens to the beach in my Sea Rayder, some guy on Kiawah
Island came running out of his condo and just blew up at me threating to
call the rent-a-cops the town hires. I tried to remind him that 100'
back from the HIGH water mark on that beach was PUBLIC PROPERTY, not his.
State law. He got awful red and ran off to get his cops. When the cops
arrived, I tried to get them to arrest me for trespassing on MY beach.
Kiawah Island is RICH! Lawyers would drool over suing them...(c; The
cop wouldn't play along, dammit. I wanted a new boat! Nuts.....

Since then, SC has a new law the waterfront politician/lawyers wrote
themselves giving each and every tiny waterfront fiefdom domain over 1
mile to SEA from their little beach so they can write local ordinances to
keep the boats away a mile off the beach, if they want.

That'll make boats disposable....like houses are gonna be. The house
bubbles are bursting here, now. I love the Sunday radio real estate show
where the realtor makes my radio spin on its axis trying to paint a rosy
picture of buyers and sellers....(c;

I hear you, they recently passed noise legislation here, I can see the
sheriff standing on the beach with a sound level meter from radio shack
taking db.readings ,then showing up at the dock with a noise
ticket...sheesh! And the real estate influence...out of control...Our
sleepy little harbor used to be a haven for working stiffs and
fisherman, in fact they built this harbor around fishing, but since
every harbor from Marina-del-Rey to San Diego has waiting lists years
long, they (big money and local government) are swallowing up the 30'
and under slips, and spitting out 50 to 100 footers in their place. I
had to shake my head in disbelief, when I attended a board of
supervisors meeting,as they tried to convince us they wanted the harbor
to be a recreational facility for the entire county, after refusing to
renew the lease of my marina operator(who built it from scratch and
held it for almost 40 years) and instead awarded it to the
operator(corporate type) of one of the other large marinas,and whose
plan calls for the removal of even more smaller slips to make way for a
bigger piece of the tax-base fleet...With the median priced used home
going for near 700k, I must rent a home, but I can afford my little
boat and slip...But for how much longer that will be an option seems
finite....I look forward to that bubble bursting in the RE market with
reckless abandon...The same programs you were talking about on Sun.
mornings are filled with people saying that if you can't afford to live
here then maybe it's time to move....but I don't think they realize
that no one in their right mind is going to commute 100 miles to mow
the greens at their country club or bag their groceries or prepare food
in their favorite eating places...or wash their yachts....