Robster_in_edmonds
Senior Member
My wife and I started seriously boating in the PNW six years ago and we've averaged about 200 hours per year on our engines. This while still both working full time. We have lots of friends planning to start boating when they retire. Just this year I have three friends in our yacht club whose plans got derailed. One former CEO of a Fortune 500 company had to give up boating after just a couple of years as his wife couldn't handle docking lines or captaining and his kids/grandkids aren't close enough to come boating. Had they started ten years earlier I know she would be comfortable in the role.
A good friend, owner of a successful business, sold for good money and he and his wife bought a beautiful trawler and loved using it. About a year later his wife started repeating herself constantly, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and now she is in a memory-care place. Incredibly sudden downward spiral. She was fine just before Christmas. Now their lives are upended, and the boat is for sale. I don't know if he'll get over losing her.
A past Commodore of our club had an aching hip that was nagging him. He went to the doctor early this year and found out he was riddled with cancer. Bones, organs, the works. Two months later he was gone.
So buy the boat and use the boat. Tell your friends you love them. Take that trip to Europe you've always wanted to go on. Whatever distant dream you have, try to make it happen now. Our time here is short.
A good friend, owner of a successful business, sold for good money and he and his wife bought a beautiful trawler and loved using it. About a year later his wife started repeating herself constantly, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and now she is in a memory-care place. Incredibly sudden downward spiral. She was fine just before Christmas. Now their lives are upended, and the boat is for sale. I don't know if he'll get over losing her.
A past Commodore of our club had an aching hip that was nagging him. He went to the doctor early this year and found out he was riddled with cancer. Bones, organs, the works. Two months later he was gone.
So buy the boat and use the boat. Tell your friends you love them. Take that trip to Europe you've always wanted to go on. Whatever distant dream you have, try to make it happen now. Our time here is short.