Re: [Paddlewise] Just Bought my 1st Boat!

From: Nick Von Robison <n.v.rob_at_deltanet.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 18:39:07 -0700
Congratulations.  Some days just work out that way.  Great story too.

> <sigh> I did think about this previously.  Storage is an issue.

My first yak purchase was something like that.  I had installed the roof rack
knowing that I was going to buy one, but after months of indecision just one day
went to the dealer and paid the cash.  The boat looked awwwfully long on top the
jeep and I realized that I hadn't really measured the garage and just assumed
that a garage would be longer than a 17' kayak.  I sweated it on the way home
and made several self-deprecatory comments under my breath -- dummy, you're
going to have a 17' kayak in your living room as a conversation piece -- but it
fit in the garage with a couple of feet to spare.  Not that I wouldn't mind
having a nautical piece of furniture in the house; I like to spend some time
admiring the lines and curves of a good boat and wouldn't have to go out in the
garage to do so.  A boat designer must have the second most aesthetically
enviable occupation, second, far second, to a Playboy centerfold photog.  :-)

-Nick


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