Kukri
Well-known member
My tongue is only part way into my cheek:
If you have a new boat, all your gear will be new, and when it eventually starts to go wrong, you will replace it with even newer stuff. This thread is not likely to interest you.
If like me you have an MAB (Manky Auld Boat) or even, as I did for forty years, you have a HIWSBW (Hole in the water, surrounded by wood, into which the owner pours money*) it might.
The Theory states that yottiquipment comes in three types
Expendable (eg paint, sails, etc) These always get more expensive...
Modern (eg genoa cars, fully battened mainsail systems, headsail reefing, all electrickery) These gradually get cheaper
Ancient but indestructible (anything made of bronze, Taylor's cookers, Sestel compasses, Seagull outboards, Avon inflatables, CQR anchors, etc.) - Ebay is your friend!
Regardless of the foregoing, all yotties will naturally acquire a boat that consumes 90% of their disposable income...
*See a tolerably obscure book,"Sixty Years a Yacht Broker", by Herbert E Julyan, for more on this definition...
If you have a new boat, all your gear will be new, and when it eventually starts to go wrong, you will replace it with even newer stuff. This thread is not likely to interest you.
If like me you have an MAB (Manky Auld Boat) or even, as I did for forty years, you have a HIWSBW (Hole in the water, surrounded by wood, into which the owner pours money*) it might.
The Theory states that yottiquipment comes in three types
Expendable (eg paint, sails, etc) These always get more expensive...
Modern (eg genoa cars, fully battened mainsail systems, headsail reefing, all electrickery) These gradually get cheaper
Ancient but indestructible (anything made of bronze, Taylor's cookers, Sestel compasses, Seagull outboards, Avon inflatables, CQR anchors, etc.) - Ebay is your friend!
Regardless of the foregoing, all yotties will naturally acquire a boat that consumes 90% of their disposable income...
*See a tolerably obscure book,"Sixty Years a Yacht Broker", by Herbert E Julyan, for more on this definition...
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