You can't put a price on some of life's best sailing moments. Those rare and short lived moments can't offset the money spent or the hours of labor lost doing maintenance, the sore muscles, and aggrevation finding crew, worrying about the boat during storms, figuring out how to mix chemicals, etc. My favorite picture from last season is a photo of my son and I racing together on our boat. I like another where we each hold a trophy, won after a hard fought regatta.
Chuck Resolute 1990 C&C 34R Atlantic City, NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Buscaglia" <t...@sv-alera.com> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 6:43:19 PM Subject: Stus-List Economic justification for owning a boat I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who just lost his job at a major video game developer after 7+ years. He was a lawyer, like me, but was doing more of a business development role there. We have a common love of all things video game related with similar backgrounds. As we were chatting about our industry and the other usual BS that goes into one of those conversations, I mentioned that if he still had the available bandwidth after the season started, the should come over to Vashon for a sail. He said he was interested and I started to talk about sailing...the sounds, the feel of the boat when it metamorphosizes from a hole in the water into a machine driven by unseen forces. Here was his response..."Tom, your whole tone totally changed when you started talking about sailing..you were calmer and seemed to be taken away to somewhere else." I cannot put a price on that....nor should I have to. Tom Buscaglia SV Alera C&C 37+/40 Vashon Island WA (206) 463-9200 www.sv-alera.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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