If I had a boat I would rent it to someone and then disappear and make them keep it
@SwiftOnSecurity No word of a lie, this happened to a friend of mine. Rented a boat docked down on the south coast of the UK for a year, and after three months the owner stopped showing up. 8 months later he finds out the owner just upped and moved to Morocco, and didn't want the boat anymore. Dude sends the paperwork back to the UK, and now my friend owns a boat, lol.
@TacticalGrace_ @SwiftOnSecurity I don’t know about where you are, but most of the places I’ve lived in the US the main expense of a boat is the slip where you dock it. Never mind the multi-year waits to finally get one. But hey, if you can cover that, good deal!
@nazgul @TacticalGrace_ @SwiftOnSecurity That of course assumes it’s a large enough boat/yacht to keep at a slip permanently. Most people just trailer their boats to a launch when they want to use them, and aren’t confined to a single body of water.
(Minnesotan here - “Land of 10,000 Lakes” and all)
@TonyYarusso @TacticalGrace_ @SwiftOnSecurity Sure. But I was assuming if they’d rented it, it was probably parked somewhere.
And the lake situation is definitely better.
@nazgul @TonyYarusso @TacticalGrace_ @SwiftOnSecurity The problem with Minnesota lakes is they freeze, so you still need a place to store one for 5 months a year (said by a guy starting at his 14' boat in the backyard)
@TonyYarusso @SwiftOnSecurity @TacticalGrace_ @nazgul Yeah, that's true.
Getting a summer dock on a lake nearby is stupid expensive...
@EricOlson @TonyYarusso @TacticalGrace_ @SwiftOnSecurity Ironically I am on the shore and my MiL next door has a boat ramp. But my little sailboat has hardly ever gone out because the ramp is only usable at high tide, and otherwise it’s yards of mud flats. The right solution is to drop an anchor in the summer and run a very long pulley. My wife’s grandfather used to have someone set that up for him every year, but I haven’t had time to figure it out myself.
Also, apparently if you don’t have a cover, the seals take over the boat.
@SwiftOnSecurity @TacticalGrace_ @nazgul @EricOlson Sure. I too have a 14-footer in my driveway. But the winter storage spot and the summer storage spot are the same place usually.