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Look, Let's get the disclaimer out of the way up front:
I am a bottom - feeding cheap-ass scavenger who likes to buy everything at the bottom of it's depreciation curve.
On my boats, the equipment is in one of four states:
1. Deteriorated, clapped out, worn out, tired, just generally due for replacement, but not yet broken.
2. Broken.
3. Recently fixed and/or replaced.
4. Missing in Action.
and I am okay with that. That is the reason why I own a boat or two.
See, here's the thing, most people fix things so they can sail- I think I sail just to field-test whatever I fixed. Because I am a bottom-feeding cheap-ass scavenger, I generally assume that everything ain't gonna work. So I fix it. if I don't know how to fix it, I learn how, and then fix it. Or vice versa. and then re-fix it. or something.
To me, there is nothing more relaxing then getting out on the water, setting the sails, finding that sweet spot where the wheel is balanced, and then varnishing, hammering, wiring, splicing or just generally puttering. When I no longer have anything to fix or improve I will have to sell my boat.
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