polarisrider1
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Let's hear your tales this summer
2015 Boat Season
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polarisrider1
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It scares me how much we have in common. I will give the boat away to the first person willing to take the payment book. ZERO down.
polarisrider1
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Two weeks into the season. Marina is 90% dead. I am here.
This one is up for sale. Reply to the Craigslist ad if anyone knows someone looking for something like it. 1999 Crownline 248 CCR. http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/boa/5008409915.html
polarisrider1
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Amazing how dead it is at the Marina. Spent last 2 nights out there. Still more boats in parking lot then in water. Just came home tonight.
polarisrider1
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Jimmy Buffet and Jack Daniels, what a pair!
But I already miss winter.
But I already miss winter.
sweeperguy
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Boats are just big holes in the water to throw money into. Or BOAT acronym Break Out Another Thousand
polarisrider1
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Blablabla. Lol. And snowmobiling isn't?
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What's money for? Can't take it with you. I find golf insanely stupid. Hit a ball, curse, throw a club, wander around in a pasture in search of a little white ball. ????? I am lost on that one. Oh and tell everyone that you golf for fun and don't take ir serious. ?????
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A grand is getting off cheap. Cost me that to fill both tanks. New camper top is going to cost me the same as a 10' r&r clam shell, upside the canvas will last longer then an r&r.
sweeperguy
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Never got that golf thing. Trying to hit a little ball into a little hole that's what like 2-300 yards away. And that's suppose to be relaxing, would make me crazy, blood pressure would go sky high. The thing I could do is the 19th hole. Buzzing around on those golf carts could be okay too.
polarisrider1
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I get what your saying.
Amen to that, Wayne!
I had a fairly rewarding 40+ year career in digital computers dating from 1958-1959(!), most as a software engineer.
Perhaps you have seen those bumper stickers that say:
Well, I did that!
Twenty plus years as pilot and aircraft owner, that wasn't cheap. (And you thought snowmobiles were expensive?) It made for a great change of pace from 16 hour days cranking out Operating System software — in machine language code — for mainframe computers. I'm sure you snowmobile jockeys understand that "change of pace" concept.
Not to brag, but just to point out that I could have saved all that loot for my retirement. But I didn't, and now that I'm retired, and I'm dealing with a variety of health issues, having had two heart attacks, one cardiac arrest, etc, etc. I'm just damn glad I did all that when I did, instead of waiting until retirement. If I had done that, it never would have happened at all!
Oh sure, I'd love to own even a piece of a (click →) Cirrus SR22 today (Drool!), and spend my retirement years flying around the country. Too bad, at upwards of $500,000 a pop — see the (click →) US Price List (PDF format), plus operating costs — that ain't gonna happen, never mind my health issues. But at least I did have 20+ years, with my own Piper Cherokee 180 (PA28-180C) and other rental aircraft!
"What's money for? Can't take it with you!"
polarisrider1
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Amen to that, Wayne!
I had a fairly rewarding 40+ year career in digital computers dating from 1958-1959(!), most as a software engineer.
Perhaps you have seen those bumper stickers that say: Well, I did that!
Twenty plus years as pilot and aircraft owner, that wasn't cheap. (And you thought snowmobiles were expensive?) It made for a great change of pace from 16 hour days cranking out Operating System software — in machine language code — for mainframe computers. I'm sure you snowmobile jockeys understand that "change of pace" concept.
Not to brag, but just to point out that I could have saved all that loot for my retirement. But I didn't, and now that I'm retired, and I'm dealing with a variety of health issues, having had two heart attacks, one cardiac arrest, etc, etc. I'm just damn glad I did all that when I did, instead of waiting until retirement. If I had done that, it never would have happened at all!
Oh sure, I'd love to own even a piece of a (click →) Cirrus SR22 today (Drool!), and spend my retirement years flying around the country. Too bad, at upwards of $500,000 a pop — see the (click →) US Price List (PDF format), plus operating costs — that ain't gonna happen, never mind my health issues. But at least I did have 20+ years, with my own Piper Cherokee 180 (PA28-180C) and other rental aircraft!
"What's money for? Can't take it with you!"
Frank, I knew there was a reason I like you! This round of "good economy" I am going to stack up a little pile of green just in case. Earning 7% on it. Not much but not bad. I do enjoy sitting on the boat, and actually driving it now the cash is once again flowing. Tonight I am dog watching. 3 of them sacked out in the cockpit.
polarisrider1
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Cold and rain this morning, humid and more rain this afternoon. So far a pretty laim season for me.
sweeperguy
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Another crappy day out for boating
Isn't a crappy day of boating, better than a good day of work.
That's a lame excuse!