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Originally Posted by chrisheltra
Its cheaper to find a friend with a boat.
Wheres the option to vote for neither. I got rid of my boat because it never got used. At first their all fun and you use it a lot but after a while you realize that shit is expensive and almost like work.
so you end up using it less and less until you never use it and your paying for it to sit around. Then the one time a year you do feel like using it you will have to pay an arm and a leg to get it running right so you can take it out
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i agree. buddy had a $20k boat: 10k hull, 10k for yamaha (ford taurus) V6 outboard.
we took it out for 4 hours, and cleaned for 2 hours afterwards.
here's what Chris is saying: the prep work before, and the cleanup/put away afterwards, takes more time than the time spent enjoying it.
it just like drag racing, it takes 3 days to get it ready, 5 hours of racing, then a few hours to unpack it all over the next few days.
i dont see a boat as a "time wise" investment due to the prep/shutdown time.
esp if the wife helps at first, then she loses interest, it is ALL ON YOU to make sure EVERYONE else has fun. that gets old.
i vote for a motorcycle: the prep time is ~15 minutes, the shut down time is ~15 minutes.
so if you have 2 hours after work, you can buzz around on your bike, but if you have 2 hours after work, you really can't get the boat in the water.
"its just too much effort....rather set here & watch TV"
but the bank dont care, they still want thier payment.
and parts are $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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