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Originally Posted by MarkR
I've really just been maintaining what is now a 40 year old boat. The new power was a necessity, the old engine had about ten years on it.
This spring will be my 12th season and up here you get 5-6 months in the water and 3-4 really good months of boating. I'm getting less that 40 hours a year of use now and putting in about 20 hours of work and it costs me a couple thousand dollars a year to own it.
I hesitate to even consider selling because I'll never replace this much boat for the money but at the same time I'm just not using it enough. My kids are in college now....things change. I mentioned before; if I had cheap indoor storage I'd just tuck it away for a while.
The boat is winterized now but will be back in the water next spring.
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Brother Mark,
You don't have a boat problem, you have a latitude problem. What the heck are you doing north of Virginia?
We'er still running 50 and 60 year old Moesly Seacrafts in Florida, and we run them all year round. I had my 1967 out at Cayo Costa Island this past weekend - low of 67 high of 84, water temprature - 67! A little breezy with wind out of the east at 5, gusting to 25. Just right for Seacraft "Cross-tie walking".
The Architect of the Universe covered you dang ass with the same "skin attached to muscle" like a whale, seal or dolphin, rather than that which is detached like on a dog or monkey. Go grab a handful of you dog's skin, unless you have a monkey!
The problem you have is that your skin is trying to get back to the water and the only water you have up there, much of the year is in a solid state - but it can be either chipped or shoveled and saved until Spring!
Ask Pelican if his move to Holly Hill has been a positive one. He was way down in Cape May and finally "threw the towel in" on a 5 month boating season.
He fretted a little about the Puerto Ricans in Florida stealing everything - now he leaves his front door unlocked and his keys in the truck! (what he don't know is he got to watch out for dem "Crackers")
Kinda' like Dr John said "You got the right boat in the wrong place"