Boating Verities

El and Bill · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:40 pm Post subject: Boating Verities

For a little fun during these waning days of winter, how about a thread that consists of one-line boating verities? Such as:

1. A Boater and his money are soon parted.

2. Owning a hundred boats is like having a hundred kids.

3. Boaters don't often wax their boats -- but they don't wax other's boats either.

4. On the subject of weather: A good weather-predicting Boater always carries a rain slicker.

Got some others to add??

Wandering Sagebrush · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject: Verities

You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can fool a boater anytime...

El and Bill · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject:

6. A boat in your driveway, is worth two in your neighbor's.

7. The beauty of a boat is in the eye of the beer holder.

8. Boating takes its toll so please have exact change.

9. Its not hard to beat boating expenses; they're everywhere.

10. Chartplotters make very fast, very expensive mistakes.

(Sorry can't resist -- need a little lightening up during these dark hours of snowstorms)

JamesTXSD · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject:

11. I'd rather be in a boat with a drink on the rocks than in the drink with a boat on the rocks.

garyk · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject:

IT's better to be on the dock wishing you were on the water than being on the water and wishing you were on the dock!

El and Bill · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject:

Great -- gave our dark night a spark! Nothing like a smile before trundling off to bed.

ppriest · Guest

C-Brats wax enthusiastic, not their boats.

KenMcC · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:45 pm Post subject:

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.

rogerbum · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:00 am Post subject:

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin

Beware of big expenses - money spent on the boat but not discussed in advance with the wife will sink a great marriage.
Roger (2008)

Some other Ben Franklin quotes that are somewhat relevant to boating...

Beware the hobby that eats.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

(relevant to recent threads)
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

dave · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:18 am Post subject:

BOAT

Break
Out
Another
Thousand

Wandering Sagebrush · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:42 am Post subject: Visual Verity

removed... could be a copyright issue.

ffheap · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:44 am Post subject:

Hi Folks,

"A boat is a hole in the water in which you poor money." (I believe this is a quote of J.P.Morgan.)

Fred

JimD · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:06 am Post subject:

(paraphrased from one seen at BOC site)
"Sunday morning;
Better to be in my boat thinking about God, than in church thinking about my boat"

maybe the best I have seen:
"Most of my money I spent on boats and women. The rest I squandered"

Mr. Green

Captains Cat · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:08 am Post subject:

ffheap · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:23 am Post subject:

Charley and Sally.

You are right. I must have been thinking about what happens when one buys a boat. One does become poor.

Fred