On Feb 14, 10:42*pm, Peter Purdie
wrote:
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Soaring is cheap compared to most other sports (if
you play golf too, how much did that bagful you tote
around cost? And as for boats.......)

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There are ways and ways of doing other sports. In the UK (and I
presume the US) dinghy sailing can be a very cheap sport - $1,000 to
buy a second-hand boat, $100 per year for club membership and
insurance, and if it's a plastic boat the maintenance costs are very
low. The same with golf in Scotland - lots of municipal courses which
are relatively cheap. They don't have to be swanning around in a 50'
ketch or playing the Old Course.

When I started I compared the costs to night-clubbing for a smoker (I
do neither) and I reckon a nigh-clubber who smokes spends more on that
per year than I do on gliding, despite EASA and the rest of it. And I
have an asset I can sell (the golider!) unlike the night-cluber - what
price a hang-over?