On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Jackie Myers <jackie_at_muddypuppies.com> wrote: > > You can set your snobbery dial a bit higher. I saw in the news today that > many of those high-priced yachts are headed for Europe as their American > owners have defaulted on the loans. The docks are becoming over-loaded with > repossessed yachts and dealers are trying to unload them. Some of those > subprime loans were used to purchase yachts and the seagulls have come home > to roost :-) Wow... there are snob levels I've only dreamed about. :) In all fairness, I have to admit that I spent some time while cruising doing repairs on large boats owned by people who couldn't take time off to actually use them and staffed by people who couldn't actually fix them. One, owned by a prominent member of an oil family, had "hostesses" who spent a lot of time doing - and redoing - their makeup. I took our 3-year-old daughter (she's 30 now) over one day and she came home to our boat with her hair, eyes, and nails done. I thought my wife was gonna kill me but Kristy was happy as she could be. Every now and then I *still* hear about that. So I happily curled my lip at the billionaires who could afford huge boats complete with (mostly incompetent and/or drunk crew) and "hostesses" but couldn't find the time to set foot aboard them. What a pity. But that's acceptable. Those millionaires are fair game for snobbery. Newbies in plastic kayaks really don't deserve it. Unless, of course, they are paddling a plastic kayak from a newly repossessed mega-yacht. Craig *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed May 28 2008 - 20:39:15 PDT
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