Reality; (was) Re: Dreamlands (was affection for old Men in old boats)


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Posted by Peter Roche on April 30, 2007 at 05:45:22 from 86.31.202.164 user PeterR.

In Reply to: Re: Dreamlands (was affection for old Men in old boats) posted by Peter H on April 29, 2007 at 21:20:55:

There is a downside to owning your own boat; the mooring fees; the insurance; the local licence; the constant pressure to use it to justify these costs; the vandalism that caused my Daughter and Son-in-Law to move their plastic boat from a very pleasant (apart from the vandalism) inexpensive location in Martham Dyke to an expensive CCTV protected mooring in the centre of Horning with its more than doubling cost of mooring. The upside of hiring is like babysitting; one gives it back at the end of the period, saying "Yes, its been great, we'll do it again sometime."!!

And after all that there's the 'shrinking' problem! I purchased Kittiwake thirty years ago when I was able to walk comfortably aroung her decks and slip into her cabin with ease, no longer! The decks appear narrower and the cabin's tight and uncomfortable! But I'm mystified. I never knew plastic could shrink!


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