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• Trends and consequences
  • Re: Trends and consequences... economic booms and busts...
    • Re: Trends and consequences... economic booms and busts...
      • I don't know how we got here, but the trend to pick up used boats to 'live aboard', is startling.
        • Interesting addition Tom
          • I wondered how your club was growing it's boat population.
            • the original blue collar plan
              • Wow, what a deal to keep a boat. On a dock, no less.
              • I wish we had something like that here...
                • I had no idea
                • Ok, I'm from out of town. 115 bucks a FOOT? For a year or what?
                  • Wondering also. I pay $4.00 ft, per month, electric is flat rate $15, live aboard is flat rate $25
                    • Re: Wondering also. I pay $4.00 ft, per month, electric is flat rate $15, live aboard is flat rate $
                      • I've spent time in Apalachicola. Don't know about liveaboard.I think I'd look a tad further west
                  • 115 a foot fo seasonal moorage at the marina....
        • Right Tom
          • Tied to a dock in East Florida a few years ago, over heard a couple walking the dock saying
            • Charlie, you're such a rascal!
        • Re: I don't know how we got here, but the trend to pick up used boats to 'live aboard', is startling
          • Re: I don't know how we got here, but the trend to pick up used boats to 'live aboard', is startling
            • The trend is because older, larger liveaboards are cheap
              • Considered doing that livaboard thing with a cheap boat...
    • Let's not forget that the sailing mags all push "BIGGER" Can't live on something under 40-45 feet!!
      • Now performance - driving the new cheese wedge shaped hull - is making sailboats bigger, still.
        • Really cheap "liveaboards" around here are just now starting to anchor in the rivers full time.
          • The yachtsman is one sinking (think failed hose clamp) away from homeless!
            • Grin Not on my boat!! ain't any through hulls under the water line! I took 'em ALL out and
              • Charlie, you may be both an old fogie and an inoclast but
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                  • but can't argue the fogie- turned 75 on the 31st of Jan
                    • Re: but can't argue the fogie- turned 75 on the 31st of Jan
                      • Another 8 years and ..
                      • I am in the process of making one change after rejecting it for years