Just posted my 1998 Macgregor 26X boat for sale here

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Re: Just posted my 1998 Macgregor 26X boat for sale here

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Mac26Mpaul wrote:Very wise indeed however intelligent, rational, objective statements aren't going to cut it with my missus because everything is valued in money to her, and she don't like spending it either :cry:
Well hang on then. If you have to sell the boat it will cost you $$ in advertising, running around doing the paperwork, driving to the notary, notary fees, etc. That's money to be spent, my friend.

I'd say keep the boat and avoid all that unnecessary expense!

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Re: Just posted my 1998 Macgregor 26X boat for sale here

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You get two healthy ticks down on the troll meter for quoting Melville ....
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Re: Just posted my 1998 Macgregor 26X boat for sale here

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You get two healthy ticks down on the troll meter for quoting Melville ....
Is that as in two ticks without Lyme Disease? :D
Trying to justify the expense of a boat is more of a human biology issue than math.
80% of the worlds population migrates to and lives by some sort of shoreline. Humans always do that. Living here in Oceanside I see hordes of people cram into town every weekend from Riverside and San Berdu and Escondido and desert points inland and I still amaze over the weekly human migration.

Read the first chapter of Moby Dick where Herman Melville describes the uncanny attraction that the shoreline has on all the landlubbers crowding the waterfront:
Sounds like something our good buddy Siggy Freud would explain as being a back to the womb experience. :)

Yeah - water is a big attractant for me too. I remember when I first started diving as a teenager thinking that under water is where I belong, so calm and relaxing.

But of course if you're in a sailboat being actually in the water is not your ultimate goal.

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