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Old 12-31-2008
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Well,

I know a lot of Xers who work 60-70 hours a week and have to save for their childrens college educations, retirement and pay the bills. Of course these are the ones that still have a job.

As I said earlier and based on one of your statements I think you agree with me--there needs to be opportunities to 1)) Join a fractional sailing/ownership arrangement OR buy a 28-30 foot used boat for day sailing and charter where ever like OR 3) join a community sailing club where you can sail at a much lower cost.

I do agree with you with regards to tastes-in-interests. These people do need to be exposed and I agree we all have a responsibility to that AND the entire sailing community (private, public, business etc) need to make it easy for these people to become exposed to the sport.
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