"Ken Finney" wrote in message
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It is a shame to see these magnificant yachts and cruisers just sitting
dockside growing moss year after year, though.

In the old Disney movie "The Boatniks", Wally Cox was the rich guy whose
boat never left the marina. When asked why not, he replied that it
couldn't, because he'd replaced the engines with a wine cellar...

Ha! Is that so wrong?

A friend of mine has a 1950s 44' ketch onced owned and raced by the Disney
family. He got tired of the big city, perpetual gray skies, ignorant river
traffic and the World and decided to sail from Portland off to Tahiti or
somewhere. Got as far as Santa Barbara. Dropped anchor, got a job.

Now he's tied off to a mooring bouy, paddles his dinghy to his old jeep each
morning and then heads off to some programming job. Making Los Angeles
scale, already paid off his boat and he has no housing fees. When he wants
seafood or crab or whatever, he simple dives over the side with his
spearpole and follows the anchor line down.

I often wonder why I didn't think of that. My wife will readily
answer -that- question. :

-c