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This Old Boat Let's say you're a typical low-paid working stiff. You've sailed small boats all your life, you've saved a little money--you're finally ready for a real cruising boat. You drop in on Tadd, your friendly neighborhood yacht broker, who is more than happy to sell you that brand-new Trickledown 32 for only $90,000, plus a few optional extras like anchors, sails, cushions, a compass, instruments--stuff like that; say, $115,000 ready to sail. One hundred boat insurance sail and fifteen thousand . . . dollars ? Not to worry, says Tadd. Only 20% down boat insurance sail and 10 years of easy payments boat insurance sail and you're off into the sunset. Let's see, that's $23,000 down and, at 10% interest, only $1,215.79 per month--plus insurance of course. Send me a postcard from Tahiti. How much per month? That's half my salary! Don't you have anything in my price range? Tadd glances conspicuously at his Rolex, sighing, boat insurance sail and points to a characterless Clorox jog with a spindly mast--a hyperthyroid daysailer with bunks for the seven dwarfs; NOT what you had in mind! And then you see it, in the back of the yard, varnish hanging in strips off weather-beaten trim, rigging frayed, sails ripped boat insurance sail and stained, dank interior with dangling wires boat insurance sail and scurrying anonymous inhabitants. But underneath all the squalor you see the lines of a real cruising boat--a sturdy hull with a sprightly sheer from the pen of a Philip Rhodes or a Tom Gillmer--a fiberglass boat built back when craftsmanship still meant something. You remember when you bought your house--it looked a lot like this boat, boat insurance sail and you boat insurance sail and your all-thumbs husband managed to breathe life into it over time, painting, papering, spackling-- lots of spackling. This boat has possibilities . How much? you ask. You're kidding, right? says Tadd, flicking a bit of cobweb from his spotless Breton Reds. Take it for, say, $8,000? Sold. Well, now you've got it home, but Bob boat insurance sail and Norm aren't t... Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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Seaworthy You`re safest on the water when you boat insurance sail and your boat are seaworthy BoatU.S. provides marine insurance coverage to 250,000 American powerboaters boat insurance sail and sailors, which makes its collection of claims reports one of the worlds largest archives of boating accidents. For more than 20 years, as writer boat insurance sail and editor of BoatU.S.s quarterly publication Seaworthy , Bob Adriance has sifted boat insurance sail and analyzed this rich trove to discover boat insurance sail and highlight the profound lessons it contains. Here is the ultimate boaters guide to preventing, responding to, boat insurance sail and surviving accidents under power or sail, including hurricane damage, lightning strikes, collisions, fires, groundings, sinkings, crew overboard, dismastings, boat insurance sail and more. Experience may be the best teacher, but the lessons are a lot less painful when the experience is someone elses. Here is a unique opportunity to use other skippers misfortunes to make your own boat boat insurance sail and seamanship safer. A boaters guide as important boat insurance sail and practical as any Ive read. And if you can ignore the occasional frisson of guilty pleasure, one thats as engrossing to read as The Perfect Storm .Tony Gibbs, yachting writer, editor, boat insurance sail and novelist Hair-raising disasters, hard facts, boat insurance sail and helpful advice; Seaworthy is a compendium of no-nonsense information on avoiding problems that only a marine insurer could provide. Invaluable for the boater, builder, designer, boat insurance sail and surveyor.Dave Gerr, director, Westlawn Institute of Tecnology; author of The Nature of Boats boat insurance sail and The Elements of Boat Strength Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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