An organization worth checking out, today's educational shell game, and cheap clothes/outsize profits...
I've been following the adventures of a very nice couple refitting a good boat and it's just that little bit depressing.
The problem is they're spending a fortune doing it and, when the dust settles, they'll have a boat worth a lot less than they've invested in the project. More problematic is all of that money they should not have spent on the rehab would have paid for a three to five year cruise.
It's not just a need/want thing either. It's the pervasive attitude that it is normal, if not required, to pour silly amounts of money and labor into a perfectly good boat to make it a "yacht"...
Of course, this is not an unusual situation. For a lot of people it seems to be standard operating procedure and I see it over and over again but that does not make it any less depressing...
Just saying.
Listening to Ray Wylie Hubbard
So it goes...
Bruce+
4 hours ago
