Fiberglass ain’t cheap either brother. You need to fix a water tank? Just looking at fiberglass makes your wallet lighter $500, and costs rise exponentially.
Problem with your inverter? Batteries? Generator? 3k a piece, and that’s if you’re shopping around.
Don’t get me wrong, I live off-grid and after doing it for a few years we decided a while back that if it’s not rated marine we just aren’t interested in it. Everything rusts. Every bullshit thing in the market is designed to fail after 200 cycles, just past the 180day warranty. But marine ratings are actually enforced. So everything we own has steadily become aluminum or stainless steel. Redoing finishes and waterproofing, oiling. Protecting shit from the weather is almost a full time job.
And then the canvas. And the rigging. And the ropes. Rope is without question my favorite tool. I know a solid 50+ knots I can do blindfolded, upside down and behind my back hanging in a tree. Bro, I love sailing, and rigging for that matter, and I won’t even do what your doing and I’m in my early 40s, childless, no debt, own two businesses, have no rent or mortgage payment - and I can’t afford a boat.
Forget this guy. Just go enjoy your boat if its within your means. Not everybody wants to or is psychologically able to sit around and do nothing in the name of saving money. Maybe boats are depreciating assets, but so too are our lives.
Fiberglass ain’t cheap either brother. You need to fix a water tank? Just looking at fiberglass makes your wallet lighter $500, and costs rise exponentially.
Problem with your inverter? Batteries? Generator? 3k a piece, and that’s if you’re shopping around.
Don’t get me wrong, I live off-grid and after doing it for a few years we decided a while back that if it’s not rated marine we just aren’t interested in it. Everything rusts. Every bullshit thing in the market is designed to fail after 200 cycles, just past the 180day warranty. But marine ratings are actually enforced. So everything we own has steadily become aluminum or stainless steel. Redoing finishes and waterproofing, oiling. Protecting shit from the weather is almost a full time job.
And then the canvas. And the rigging. And the ropes. Rope is without question my favorite tool. I know a solid 50+ knots I can do blindfolded, upside down and behind my back hanging in a tree. Bro, I love sailing, and rigging for that matter, and I won’t even do what your doing and I’m in my early 40s, childless, no debt, own two businesses, have no rent or mortgage payment - and I can’t afford a boat.
Godspeed my man.
I just love him arguing with you when you clearly were speaking from wisdom gained by experience (even if it’s experience of others, idk)
There’s a reason there is a famous joke about the happiest days of a boat owners life are the day he bought it and the day he sold it.
sorry for new Yorker paywall
But if anyone knows a work around I’d say this OP is a bit down that list already lol
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Forget this guy. Just go enjoy your boat if its within your means. Not everybody wants to or is psychologically able to sit around and do nothing in the name of saving money. Maybe boats are depreciating assets, but so too are our lives.