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...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
When refitting a boat quits being a refit and morphs into out of control consumerism...
Posted by RLW at Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Labels: Boatbuilding, Budget, Classic Plastic, Cruising Culture, Money