all or nothing...

Gin & Tacos on bailing out the Titanic with a bucket, some Druid perspective, and in the "If Darwin was right we wouldn't be here" department...

One thing that makes me bang my head against the bulkhead on a regular basis is the current prevalent mindset of All or Nothing...

There's a lot of it going around.

Where boats are concerned it manifests itself like this: Our would be cruiser wants to go cruising but does not have the resources to afford what he (or someone else has told him) is the "perfect"  or "best" boat and, while he can afford a perfectly adequate boat for his needs and aspirations, the all or nothing mindset kicks in and throws common sense/logic right out the window.

It's not just boats but boat stuff as well... A couple of years back someone I'm acquainted with needed a self-steering for his boat because he had a trans-Pacific voyage slated. Because he could not afford one of the three vane gears he had decided were "Best", his All or Nothing mindset kicked into high gear. So, instead of building a perfectly adequate vane for a couple of hundred dollars or buying an excellent vane for a bit more, he decided to go without. Of course, he did wind up getting across the Pacific but it was on the freighter that rescued him since hand steering 24/7 was found to be a wholly unacceptable option. I expect his boat (if still visible beneath the guano) is quite happily floating around the Pacific as a popular rest stop for tired birds.

Listening to Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band

So it goes...