For DixieGirl - Wooden Boat
Nov 13, 2017 08:39:16 #
cessnalvr wrote:
Nice series. Always heard the two happiest days in a boat owners life are the day they get it and the day they sell it
That's not a Universal Truth, and is probably mostly true when to owner 'has to sell' for some reason. My father, who had had a boat all his adult life was really 'lost' for a while after he sold his last boat, and golf didn't begin to fill the loss. I've had and been around boats since about age 12, and now with ours For Sale, I'm not looking forward to "swallowing the anchor", and I don't play golf.
I guess when it's gone, I'll just have to take more pictures, but won't be able to go to photograph & post the Log Canoe races for y'all any longer. 
Nov 13, 2017 19:32:01 #
Nov 13, 2017 19:33:25 #
sailorsmom wrote:
Good, interesting shots, Don!
Appreciate your kind comment Sue, glad you enjoyed them.
Don
Nov 13, 2017 19:35:45 #
I see your point JCam. I enjoyed my boats when I had them but they can be a BIG expense. If you can do a lot of the work yourself the expense is reduced some.
Don
Don
Nov 14, 2017 08:40:05 #
PAR4DCR wrote:
I see your point JCam. I enjoyed my boats when I had them but they can be a BIG expense. If you can do a lot of the work yourself the expense is reduced some.
Don
Don
Don, I certainly agree with the expense part especially with the mid-sized boats(perhaps 20 to 60'?); above that length I suspect the owners may be in the 'money isn't too much of a problem' group or use a wallet as the main maintenance tool. I have been fortunate, I do most of my own work and learned my maintenance skills working with my father on his boats when we were both a lot younger, and later doing the work for him; towards the end of his boat ownership, I probably used the boat more than he did so it was payback. There was a lot more maintenance in those days of wooden boats, and although I love to see the old classics, I'm very glad I don't own one; my larger boats have been fiberglass.
Our sons live about 400+ miles away so now it is all my job, made a bit easier by a workday at the yard generally being about 2/3 work time and 1/3 "shooting the breeze" with other owners. 
My theory is that unless you enjoy the work, and have, the necessary skills to maintain the boat you have/want , you probably shouldn't own it.
Nov 14, 2017 23:54:30 #
JCam wrote:
That's not a Universal Truth, and is probably most... (show quote)
Yea i know was just a comment. I still want a boat for fishing if i ever get to go again. Even a row boat or canoe. Alot of people probably say the same thing about horses but dont what it would take to get mine. Wouldnt be cheap that's for sure and same goes for my dogs. On the orher hand i have a 98 kw t800 i couls be talked out of pretty easily
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