Boaters are nuts

Originally Posted by Jay Honeck

We spent the Fourth of July with friends who keep a yacht on Lake
Michigan. It gets 1 mile per gallon, carries several hundred gallons
of fuel, and is worth almost $400K.

We were sitting at the dock, sipping a cold one, and my friend pointed
out that most of the boats never, EVER leave the dock. One in
particular -- a VERY sleek job that looked like it was going 100 mph
standing still, but was still a cabin-class yacht -- had just been
purchased for $1.7 million dollars this past spring.

The new owners had a zillion wet towels hanging from the railings to
dry, so it looked like crap. My buddy said he's never seen it leave
dock.

For $1.7 million, that guy could have bought himself a nice used
Citation, and paid a pilot to fly him anywhere in the world for the
next five years. He could have actually gone places and seen things,
but instead he gets pickled every weekend aboard a floating bar that
never sails.

Meanwhile, people think flying is expensive. I guess I'll never
understand some people.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

with people such as yourself mr. honeck it just boils down to this:

wealth envy

(btw, i own a yacht, a plane and a helicopter. i'm sure you can find something wrong with that)

Dylan Smith wrote:
Yes, but Jay, the boater can shut down his engine(s) while away from shore.
We can't.

I dunno, I flew for an hour and a half on Sunday with no engine :-)

4 hours for me.

Its really heatin' up in Ncal/Sierra

--
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rotor&wing wrote:
(btw, i own a yacht, a plane and a helicopter. i'm sure you can find
something wrong with that)

Well if you hadn't blown all your money on those toys you could have
afforded to pay for an account with a real Usenet service provider.

:-)

On Jul 10, 8:23 pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
rotor&wing wrote:
(btw, i own a yacht, a plane and a helicopter. i'm sure you can find
something wrong with that)

Well if you hadn't blown all your money on those toys you could have
afforded to pay for an account with a real Usenet service provider.

:-)

Or maybe a name?

Jay B

(rotor& "wing" wrote)
(btw, i own a yacht, a plane and a helicopter. i'm sure you can find
something wrong with that)


No minivan?


Paul-Mont

Jim Logajan wrote:
rotor&wing wrote:
(btw, i own a yacht, a plane and a helicopter. i'm sure you can find
something wrong with that)

Well if you hadn't blown all your money on those toys you could have
afforded to pay for an account with a real Usenet service provider.

:-)

And he could have afforded classes to learn how to write! :-)

Matt

Originally Posted by Jim Logajan

rotor&wing wrote:
(btw, i own a yacht, a plane and a helicopter. i'm sure you can find
something wrong with that)

Well if you hadn't blown all your money on those toys you could have
afforded to pay for an account with a real Usenet service provider.

:-)

why, so i can reply to honeck's inane diatribes and postings where he rambles on endlessly about nothing? no thanks.

btw, i haven't blown all my money. trust me, there's alot more where that came from. you guys are showing your "wealth envy". maybe you can get your hero hillary to put an end to the upper class.

good luck.

btw, i haven't blown all my money. trust me, there's alot more where
that came from. you guys are showing your "wealth envy". maybe you can
get your hero hillary to put an end to the upper class.

good luck.

Only in America! Imagine any other country in the world where an
illiterate person could afford a helicopter, a yacht, and an
airplane?

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

(rotor&amp wrote)
btw, i haven't blown all my money. trust me, there's alot more where that
came from. you guys are showing your "wealth envy". maybe you can get your
hero hillary to put an end to the upper class.


Good, then maybe you can buy a keyboard with a shift key that works more
often.


Paul-Mont

"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
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On Jul 10, 8:23 pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
rotor&wing wrote:
(btw, i own a yacht, a plane and a helicopter. i'm sure you can find
something wrong with that)

Well if you hadn't blown all your money on those toys you could have
afforded to pay for an account with a real Usenet service provider.

:-)

Or maybe a name?

Isn't that his parents fault?