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Old 12-30-2008
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Just curious, what's your point???

If you can't afford a boat...don't buy one...

BTW, your analysis is probably a bit off, since no used boat is going to depreciate from $20,000 to $16,000 in a year. Let's assume that the boat is a 30' LOA Benehuntalina. The boat would cost new, somewhere north of $90,000...and for it to be selling for $20,000 it's got to be at least six years old—since it has depreciated by over $70,000. I don't see a six-year old boat dropping $4,000 in value over a year...
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You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.

—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)

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