Sailing this weekend, big pics, ugly mug

[Lux Interior]

How do you make a small fortune?






Start with a large fortune and then buy a boat.


B.O.A.T. = Break Out Another Thou$and.


The first boat I crewed was a beast. Ten's of thousands of shaft horsepower driven by twin steam turbines fed by a large heat source surrounded by lots of lead. Operating it was fun, but the owners insisted that I participate in other activities that gave me no joy.

I downsized to a 21' cuddy cabin until the inevitable 3-footitis took hold and then I upsized to a 24' cabin cruiser and spent many enjoyable weekends on the lake, escaping the mother-in-law who had come to live with us for the summer. When I moved overseas, the boat did not follow (nor the mother-in-law).

Now I am boatless and missing it, but enjoying the lack of drain on finances that it brings.

[eustacetilley]

Lux Interior wrote:
How do you make a small fortune?






Start with a large fortune and then buy a boat.


B.O.A.T. = Break Out Another Thou$and.


The first boat I crewed was a beast. Ten's of thousands of shaft horsepower driven by twin steam turbines fed by a large heat source surrounded by lots of lead. Operating it was fun, but the owners insisted that I participate in other activities that gave me no joy.

I downsized to a 21' cuddy cabin until the inevitable 3-footitis took hold and then I upsized to a 24' cabin cruiser and spent many enjoyable weekends on the lake, escaping the mother-in-law who had come to live with us for the summer. When I moved overseas, the boat did not follow (nor the mother-in-law).

Now I am boatless and missing it, but enjoying the lack of drain on finances that it brings.

Much of what you just wrote is just terrific. You left just enough of the unsaid, unsaid.
Please keep it up, when time and reality permits.

It is quite clear that I'm not a powerboater, from all that I have written here so far, but I did spend some time with DiMaggio's boat.
Yes, that DiMaggio. It was a little cuddy cabin, and when keeping it from sinking finally proved impossible, and Joe was now gone, it found a little comfy berth on land, and it had a Plaque. (I wrote what was on the Plaque.)

A few years later, I found myself working with yet another DiMaggio, on a Liquid Helium cooled Goniometer Project. He kept mum about the name; they all did. (I've known a lot of DiMaggios over the years. Joe was before my time.) But when I mentioned the boat...
Uncle Joe took him out on it a lot, and Uncle Joe taught him all the basics of not catching fish.

Oh dear, the sky is lightening over the hatchway. Dawn is threatening to erupt. Time to put away a few thousand words judiciously written, and a few really good equations. (Transmission Line stuff. As much as I like a really good Plasma, that Plasma has to eventually go somewhere, somewhere preferably far out into Left Field.)

Eustace

[davemchine]

I've had the boat about four years. Last year was my first experience throwing money into a hole int he water. About half the value of the boat (which isn't much) went into replacing old standing rigging and the associated deck hardware. There were some other problems also. Overall it was not a huge amount of money. If things go well I'd like to have it repainted this fall. The wood could use sprucing up but that's pretty minimal. Engine cover could use paint but that's just a can of spray paint. Overall it's a low maintenance boat. At least until I sink it. :-)

[DP]

Except for the babe and a guy 30 years younger, and reaching on a tropical breeze on a tropical sea,
here is me on my boat.

[davemchine]

I've never been on a catamaran but they sure look like fun.

[RAMd®d]

The first boat I crewed was a beast.

"Boat sailor" or ship.


It makes me very happy and I only wish I could sail more often.

It's a great name for a boat.

I used to "crew" on a friend's 28' sloop. It was great fun!

Love the sea, and sailing.

Congratulations that you get to sail when you can.