Tired of paddling yet?
Published August 13, 2008 | 
Oh, a sailor’s life is
The life for me
How I love to sail o’er
The bounding sea
And I never, never,
Ever do a thing about the weather
For the weather never
Ever does a thing for me!
It’s sort of like back in those days when I was broke and homeless sleeping in my car in a posh little suburb of New York. Walking down the streets in the wee hours seeing all the stuff in the shop windows can be a real drag. Especially if you’ve not eaten in a couple days. . .
So they tell us that 1% of the population holds like 90% of the worlds wealth. Of course that’s a bit misleading. It depends on what you consider “wealth”. Paddling into yacht clubs around Puerto Rico certainly made you feel like there was a lot of wealth to go around. Paddling in we’d be surrounded by all these amazing and opulent craft. We’d wonder what the cost of owning one of these behemoths must be?! Leasing a dock, fuel, maintenance. . . Yikes! Well, the folks at Yacht Plus came up with a thing called “Fractional Ownership” that they say takes the hassle and costs out of owning a yacht. I might look into that. Well, if I’m ever closer to that 1% than I am now . . . which is just happy not to be homeless.
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2 Responses to Tired of paddling yet?
Wow, Derek, you sure can find them!
A new yacht with visibility second even to submerged subs… with periscopes down. This is not a yacht for a paddler to get in front of with those preposterously silly blind spots forward. Ruddy scurvy landlubberin varmints!
I wonder what Lloyd’s of London will demand in order to issue liability insurance.
Sure looks cool though, but I prefer this:
Wally 118
Looks like a cross between a down-river-racing kayak, the Bat-Boat, and high dose steroids. One fill-up costs as much as a dozen kevlar sea kayaks. 15 gallons per mile at 60 knots, (That’s 40 grand to go 400 miles) but at least you can see forward!
oh, that’s nice. We paddled by one in PR that was basically a black bullet. Even the glass was black and non-reflective. It looked like some ultra-stealth bond boat. One thing, if you can afford to own and maintain one of these I doubt the fuel prices are going to hinder you much.