I made myself a promise when I bought my first and subsequent sailboats, all boat purchases and expenditures would be cash. A boat is a very discretionary expense.
I've never broken that promise. :) Later, after several years of boat ownership and hard lessons, I made myself a second promise. Specifically, when it comes to boat repairs, maintenance and upgrades, never "cheap it". I've broken that one a time or two and always regretted it. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 1:08 PM CHARLES SCHEAFFER via CnC-List < [email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, I put all of my receipts into a folder for warranty sake and in case > I need to reorder something that worked well. But I'm afraid to ever add up > the expenses. I consider this sailing hobby and maintaining a work of art > like a C&C sailboat to be therapy in many ways. It provides many hours of > physical work as well as keeping me healthy mentally, problem solving and > learning new skills. I should be able to write off the expenses as > medicine. A boat also provides a great opportunity to help the economy > when buying all the necessary materials and just the taxes paid out over > the fifteen year ownership would amount to a considerable sum. Makes me > feel patriotic. > > > Now back to glorious sanding a priming. > > > Chuck S > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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