At 16:31 7/7/99 -0400, Bob Denton <BDenton_at_aquagulf.com>wrote: >I agree but a Khats also rents for big bucks! I mentioned cheaper twice in >my message. There is no doubt that he could purchase and resell a boat for >much less then the rental. Also, don't under rate the K-Light. I've paddled >many miles with Chuck Landis in his K-Light and I had no trouble keeping up >him in my Nordkapp...many others in our group dropped back. [snip] >>I don't know about your buy-used and sell option. >> >>I've paddled with Julio (once) and based on what I saw, he's going to want a >>Khatsalano or some other high performance, folding boat. These sell for BIG >>BUCKS. The used Khatsalanos I've seen on the market sell for well over >>$3000 (as they should --- these are great boats)! That's a lot of cash to >>cough up. Yeah, that means he can probably turn the boat around when he >>gets back and recover the BIG BUCKS, but they also seem to take quite a >>while to sell. That ties up ones capital for a long time (assuming one has >>the capital to invest in the first place). >> >>--Tim some quick math from their page "$15/day for >25 days" 3000/$15 =200 day rental -- doubt he needs that if it's for "the summer" --more like $15*90=$1350 ... yes you could buy & resell for less, but for $1350 you get everything including a field repair kit, paddle & pfd [although i'd probably take my own ;-] and not have much of a headache ... _the_caveat_ 3 months notice for rentals in summer_!! hmmm, who's summer!! mark [julio, maligiaq says "hello" - you paddled with him for a day?] #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index of Paddling websites I manage] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jul 07 1999 - 15:37:42 PDT
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