Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:20:00 -0500, wrote:

That's an interesting thought but I prefer to have my boat available
whenever I need it and I'm lucky enough to live in an area where I can
use it 300+ days a year!
The question is, will you?
I log about 300 hours a year so it is easy to justify owning a boat.
There are other people here who don't use 10% of that a year.
===

We've logged about 3,000 hours on the trawler over 7 years, another
200+ on the runabout, and at least another several hundred on the
dinghies.

Someday I will have the time for that!

On Jan 11, 8:32*pm, wrote:
Wayne sails all over the western Atlantic and
Caribbean.
I envy that a bit myself but I don't have the "budget" *;-)


neither does he. He just doesn't know it...

?;^ )

On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:09:04 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:30:06 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

http://www.metro.us/newyork/life/art...ing-affordable

“Boats are a great investment for a family because it’s a way to
socialize and spend time together,” says Ellen Hopkins, a spokes*woman
for Discover Boating. “A lot of my friends who grew up boating said
that one of their best memories was going out with their dads on
Sundays and fishing — it’s a unique way to bond. It’s like a
minivacation, even just being on a kayak on the water.”

Yeah, beats driving 120 miles to 6 flags and paying $50 bucks each to
get in then end up standing on hot asphalt waiting an hr to ride some
whirlie-gig and eat $5.00 hotdogs....

The cheapest way to own a boat is to use it a lot. Then your per hour
cost drops to a very low number.

So does the marginal cost per pound of the fish you catch.

On 05/01/2012 5:36 AM, Happy John wrote:
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:09:04 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:30:06 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

http://www.metro.us/newyork/life/art...ing-affordable

“Boats are a great investment for a family because it’s a way to
socialize and spend time together,” says Ellen Hopkins, a spokes*woman
for Discover Boating. “A lot of my friends who grew up boating said
that one of their best memories was going out with their dads on
Sundays and fishing — it’s a unique way to bond. It’s like a
minivacation, even just being on a kayak on the water.”

Yeah, beats driving 120 miles to 6 flags and paying $50 bucks each to
get in then end up standing on hot asphalt waiting an hr to ride some
whirlie-gig and eat $5.00 hotdogs....

The cheapest way to own a boat is to use it a lot. Then your per hour
cost drops to a very low number.

So does the marginal cost per pound of the fish you catch.

Who cares?

Bad day fishing beats a good day at work.

Hearing the loons at sunset priceless peace and nature.
--
No mater how liberally you try to ignore rationality and reality,
reality always wins in the end.

On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:29:09 -0700, Canuck57 wrote:

On 05/01/2012 5:36 AM, Happy John wrote:
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:09:04 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:30:06 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

http://www.metro.us/newyork/life/art...ing-affordable

“Boats are a great investment for a family because it’s a way to
socialize and spend time together,” says Ellen Hopkins, a spokes*woman
for Discover Boating. “A lot of my friends who grew up boating said
that one of their best memories was going out with their dads on
Sundays and fishing — it’s a unique way to bond. It’s like a
minivacation, even just being on a kayak on the water.”

Yeah, beats driving 120 miles to 6 flags and paying $50 bucks each to
get in then end up standing on hot asphalt waiting an hr to ride some
whirlie-gig and eat $5.00 hotdogs....

The cheapest way to own a boat is to use it a lot. Then your per hour
cost drops to a very low number.

So does the marginal cost per pound of the fish you catch.

Who cares?

Bad day fishing beats a good day at work.

Hearing the loons at sunset priceless peace and nature.

Well, obviously the owners of boats who are recreational fishermen are like the honey badger - they
don't give a **** how much it costs!

I can't argue with your last two lines at all. I've got to learn how to fish Lake Anna down here in
Virginia. People are catching the hell out of rockfish (striped bass, stripers, etc.). The hard part
is the drive down and back - 162 miles round trip.

On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:36:19 -0500, Happy John
wrote:

The cheapest way to own a boat is to use it a lot. Then your per hour
cost drops to a very low number.

So does the marginal cost per pound of the fish you catch.

===

Yes but I don't measure fish caught "by the pound" although it might
be an interesting number. I've finally gotten my cost "per fish"
down close to the 4 digit range.

On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:07:01 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:

On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:36:19 -0500, Happy John
wrote:

The cheapest way to own a boat is to use it a lot. Then your per hour
cost drops to a very low number.

So does the marginal cost per pound of the fish you catch.

===

Yes but I don't measure fish caught "by the pound" although it might
be an interesting number. I've finally gotten my cost "per fish"
down close to the 4 digit range.

Usually I don't either. But, the first fish I caught with the $25K Proline was an expensive bugger.
It probably weighed about ten pounds, which made it much more costly than Safeway was getting for
rockfish. Four digits sounds about right - if I count croaker too.