Boat(less)

[RetiredUSN]

For the first time in 24 years, I don't own a boat. Sold my 26' Islander sailboat (the second Islander I have owned) this morning along my 14' crabbing skiff.

I won't miss the sailboat too much because I'm getting to damn old to be crawling over the deck chasing lines fixing a foresail/jib, but I'm having a little sellers remorse over the skiff.

My son and I built this skiff a few years back.





Time to start another build.

Maybe a 18' this time after I buy the trawler that I want.

 

[Chomsky]

For the first time in 24 years, I don't own a boat. Sold my 26' Islander sailboat (the second Islander I have owned) this morning along my 14' crabbing skiff.

I won't miss the sailboat too much because I'm getting to damn old to be crawling over the deck chasing lines fixing a foresail/jib, but I'm having a little sellers remorse over the skiff.

My son and I built this skiff a few years back.

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Time to start another build.

Maybe a 18' this time after I buy the trawler that I want.

I believe I recall your posting about building the skiff as you were building it, Retired USN.

I don't know how you let it go. We (me & my bros) still have a car we built in our teens. We're never letting that baby go! Ditto for our (long gone) grandfather's old relic!

 

[RF667799]

I believe I recall your posting about building the skiff as you were building it, Retired USN.

I don't know how you let it go. We (me & my bros) still have a car we built in our teens. We're never letting that baby go! Ditto for our (long gone) grandfather's old relic!

I admire holding on to a car that long. I wish I still had my 67 RS/SS Camaro. I have a friend, now in his late 50s, that still owns the first car he ever had, bought when he was 16. Several years ago I was out at his house looking at some of the cars he has in his various sheds and barns, and I said, "Hey! That's just like your first car."

He said, "No...that IS my first car," LOL I never realized he had kept it all that time.

 

[Chomsky]

I admire holding on to a car that long. I wish I still had my 67 RS/SS Camaro. I have a friend, now in his late 50s, that still owns the first car he ever had, bought when he was 16. Several years ago I was out at his house looking at some of the cars he has in his various sheds and barns, and I said, "Hey! That's just like your first car."

He said, "No...that IS my first car," LOL I never realized he had kept it all that time.

Well, I've got to thank my brother, as it was our joint project but I left it to him when I moved on. It's a helluva' trip being in it today. All the memories of hanging with childhood & high schoolfriends, street races, and back seat escapades! The memories are priceless!