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Old 07-10-2012, 06:35   #376
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Re: What happens to all the wannabees?

A tot for tat.
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Old 07-10-2012, 15:52   #377
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Ok, I’ll bite.

In just eight short weeks, my employer will give birth to a brand new retiree. After having been employed almost continuously for the past 50 years – my first job was pumping gas and washing cars at my dad’s service station for the then munificent salary of $5 a day – I am looking forward to my next career as an intemperate slacker and permanent drain on society. It only makes sense to do that on a sailboat.
Leech on society and a slacker. Boy you are gonna draw some criticism from certain people. You are probably one of those rich resource drains as well.

I reckon you outta donate your retirement to charity, get an unlaunchable $1,000 boat and live on it under a bridge...


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I became a boat slut. I had no shame.
Why the past tense -
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Old 07-10-2012, 15:59   #378
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Re: What happens to all the wannabees?

I'm looking forward to joining the 47% in a couple of years!
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Old 07-10-2012, 16:13   #379
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I'm looking forward to joining the 47% in a couple of years!
You're setting the bar way too low. I'm wanting to be part of the 1%.
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Old 07-10-2012, 16:42   #380
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I know what happens to some wannabees. They buy a boat and park it next to the other boats at the marina and start a garden growing on the hull.

This is my second year of monohull ownership, and I have never seen so many awesome boats that never leave their slips. We're talking Contessa 32, Vega 27, Pacific Seacraft 37, Cape Dory 30/31, several CSY's, and many others I can't name...........
I often taunt an ex sailboat owner I know who sold his sailboat gave up his mooring bought a big power boat that pretty much just sits at the dock these days. I tell him that's an expensive beach chair he owns because that's pretty much all he does on it.
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Old 07-10-2012, 16:51   #381
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they make great lovenests to take the secutary to during lunch
Yep, I've seen that happen a few times too in my boatyard while I was working on my boat before launching. Something about the smile on a boat bimbo's face as she leaves that's kind of cute. In a cat ate the canary kind of way. They always seem to be leaving only from powerboats though.
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Old 07-10-2012, 18:27   #382
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Leech on society and a slacker. Boy you are gonna draw some criticism from certain people. You are probably one of those rich resource drains as well.

I reckon you outta donate your retirement to charity, get an unlaunchable $1,000 boat and live on it under a bridge...

Why the past tense -
There's a thought...suppose I can get a tax break for that?

I found the boat you're talking about, now it's just a matter of evicting the sea lions.
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Old 07-10-2012, 18:37   #383
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Leech on society and a slacker. Boy you are gonna draw some criticism from certain people. You are probably one of those rich resource drains as well.

I reckon you outta donate your retirement to charity, get an unlaunchable $1,000 boat and live on it under a bridge...




Why the past tense -
hay wait--he cant live under the bridge--that mooring is still mine---
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hay wait--he cant live under the bridge--that mooring is still mine---
Still need crew??
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Old 07-10-2012, 18:50   #385
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always-i am a bit south of my mooring tho--my other boat is living there for a while....i am in beautiful banderas bay....
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Old 08-10-2012, 06:25   #386
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Yep, I've seen that happen a few times too in my boatyard while I was working on my boat before launching. Something about the smile on a boat bimbo's face as she leaves that's kind of cute. In a cat ate the canary kind of way. They always seem to be leaving only from powerboats though.
So if you want to get laid you need a power boat?
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Old 08-10-2012, 07:18   #387
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So if you want to get laid you need a power boat?
Well, that's just my observation. Let's just say your chances might be better on one.
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Old 08-10-2012, 07:22   #388
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So if you want to get laid you need a power boat?

If you want to get laid by a gold digging secratary, yes. If you like real ladies instead of ones covered with makeup and pantyhose, a sailboat is a much better bet.
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Old 08-10-2012, 07:29   #389
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Well, that's just my observation. Let's just say your chances might be better on one.
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35 yrs old dreaming of circumnavigate with my wife and two kids. No money at this moment. No experience on a sailboat, just motor....
Does that make me a wannabe?

Am in Spain right now looking for a solution to manifest our dream. We gave up everything bought an RV and are driving around the meds looking in every marina to find a live aboard and get closer to our dream.
Does that make me a nut?

Maybe...

But eventually, she will be there. A Formosa or a Belliure..... 41'to 43'....center cockpit.....3 cabin layout.....full keel....&hellip;.............hmmmmmm
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