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Who owns the boats? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I have a friend who grew up on the coast and her family always sailed for fun.

When she got divorced she bought a sailboat and traveled for a bit in it. She then parked it at a marina and lived in it for so many years close to her kids and grandkids. She paid $100K for boat and her marina fees were $300/month. The boat was paid off with the divorce settlement.

The cheapest 1 bedroom apartment to rent nearby was $3500/month for less square footage than her boat. The cheapest small house was around $1,000,000 or around $6000/ month at the time. The homes around the marina were all priced at several million dollars.

[–] pelespirit 42 points 2 days ago (17 children)

We met someone like that and they were considered homeless by the city, lol. I think they were annoyed at that.

Seattle is full of people that live on boat as an affordable alternative. You can't be squeamish about insects or get seasick easily because of the storms. I couldn't do it myself, but I've known quite a few that have.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

me writing “the ocean :)” as my permanent address on government documents

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

People selling boats.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you really think about it, no human was ever meant to go on a boat for they are not designed around humans. I think they're for the illuminati lizards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

While I am skeptical of your claims, I am not an expert on boats or lizards so you're probably right.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The crab people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Them Bucklanders, obviously.

[–] Trollception 3 points 1 day ago

Your neighbor owns one of these boats, try harder OP.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sailboats aren’t prohibitively expensive for a normie, especially if you buy a used one. If you look at the large empty houses near every harbor though, you’ll see a better sign of the wealth disparity. The rich own multiple houses worth millions each and they seem to be rarely used while many people can’t afford a starter home now.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (14 children)

My dad used to own a sailboat, which was a high point for someone squarely middle class. We're talking a 44 ft sailboat.

These things are holes in the water who the fuck wants a boat

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How do you make a small fortune?

Start with a large fortune and buy a boat.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

As the saying goes:

The two best days of a boat owner's life are the day they buy the boat, and the day they sell the boat

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

Meh, a boat is a hole in the water to dump money into, a car is a hole in the road, and a house is a hole in the ground. At least the boat combines the advantages of the other two.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (6 children)

boats aren't expensive, especially the older they are. fixing boats properly is expensive, but you also don't really need to do that. My dad had a racing boat when I was a kid, it cost him $400.. I bought a dinghy last year for $200. That's less than the cost of a game console. And it costs literally nothing to go take it out on the water.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My mom grew up in the '40s and '50s and she told me many times about the surplus PT boat her dad had bought at the end of WWII which the family would take out for boating trips. I was like holy shit a PT (Patrol Torpedo) boat! These things had three Packard engines and could make 45 knots. Later on as an adult I discovered that it was actually just a pontoon boat, one of the things the army would use to make temporary bridges over rivers and that could only go about 3 mph. My mom had just thought "PT" stood for "Pon Toon" so that's what she called it. It turns out she had always wondered what the hell John F. Kennedy had been doing in the Pacific fighting the Japanese in a pontoon boat.

Later on, I then learned that my mom's uncle had actually bought a surplus Air/Sea Rescue boat after the war. This boat was basically a PT boat, just with two of the Packard engines instead of three; since it was 15 feet longer than a PT boat it could also do 45 knots. So it turns out my mom did have this childhood experience of rocketing around the ocean at unbelievable speeds. Her uncle ended up selling the boat after the engine room caught fire for the third time (something these engines were notorious for) and we have no idea what happened to it after that. These boats cost about $190K new and he had somehow acquired it for $10K - I expect there was some shady dealing going on there.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

fixing boats properly is expensive, but you also don’t really need to do that

Yeah, this sounds like really bad advice...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Depends on what you're using your boat for. A dinghy on a lake doesn't need the same level of repair that an oceangoing vessel does.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I've had this awesome teacher. He was a boating and train nerd and looked the part.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Same people who own all the empty properties, residential and commercial; Fucking leaches, that's who.