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Author: bpuharicbpuharic
Date: Jun 8, 2010 04:33
anyone used sea clear software? i used it years ago but just
rediscovered it...downloaded the NOAA charts...free and it's great!
havent figured it all out yet but it beats paying $20 for charts
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Author: Wayne.BWayne.B
Date: Jun 8, 2010 03:26
On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:45:39 -0400, gfretwell@ aol.com wrote:
>That was brought home to me again on Carter's Lake. We rented a brand
>new Bentley pontoon boat for $250 a day ($200 for 4 hours). If you
>only boat 10-15 days a year you could never own a boat that cheap.
>That would be particularly true if your boating season is only 13
>weeks long.
>If I didn't have a dock behind my house I wouldn't own a boat and a
>lot of my neighbors do have a boat swinging on a lift and they still
>don't get out 10 times a year.
It all depends on the boat and how much you use it. We've owned our
GB49 for 6 years and have used it about 720 days. That works out to
a fully loaded cost of about $500/day. Typical charter cost for a
comparable boat is about $1000/day plus fuel so we are doing OK and
the boat is equipped and maintained the way we want it. I'm guessing
that break even is about 50 or 60 days/year or about 1 day per week.
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Author: LarryLarry
Date: Jun 8, 2010 02:59
Canuck57 wrote:
> On 06/06/2010 5:21 PM, nom=de=plume wrote:
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>> "YukonBound" wrote in message
>> news:4c0c2195$0$11834$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net...>>>
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>>> aol.com> wrote in message
>>> news:ectn0692ehkfgnc99v5bft67088djn8sb9@4ax.com...>>>> That was brought home to me again on Carter's Lake. We rented a brand
>>>> new Bentley pontoon boat for $250 a day ($200 for 4 hours). If you
>>>> only boat 10-15 days a year you could never own a boat that cheap.
>>>> That would be particularly true if your boating season is only 13
>>>> weeks long.
>>>> If I didn't have a dock behind my house I wouldn't own a boat and a
>>>> lot of my neighbors do have a boat swinging on a lift and they still
>>>> don't get out 10 times a year.
>>>
>>>
>>> You could say the same thing about having a pickup as a 2nd ...
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Author: LarryLarry
Date: Jun 8, 2010 02:58
> On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:48:50 -0400, Larry A1gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Frogwatch wrote:
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>>> On Jun 6, 12:45 pm, gfretw...@ aol.com wrote:
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>>> >>>> That was brought home to me again on Carter's Lake. We rented a brand
>>>> new Bentley pontoon boat for $250 a day ($200 for 4 hours). If you
>>>> only boat 10-15 days a year you could never own a boat that cheap.
>>>> That would be particularly true if your boating season is only 13
>>>> weeks long.
>>>> If I didn't have a dock behind my house I wouldn't own a boat and a
>>>> lot of my neighbors do have a boat swinging on a lift and they still
>>>> don't get out 10 times a year.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> All very true. In most cases, renting a boat is much cheaper than ...
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Author: LarryLarry
Date: Jun 8, 2010 02:55
YukonBound wrote:
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> "Larry" A1gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:qr-dnW3wWpLbrpHRnZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d@giganews.com...>> YukonBound wrote:
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>>> "YukonBound" wrote in message
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>>>> "Larry" A1gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:jLmdnVtd2bTdYJfRnZ2dnUVZ_qednZ2d@giganews.com...>>>>> YukonBound wrote:
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>>>>>> "Larry" A1gmail.com> wrote in message
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Author: bpuharicbpuharic
Date: Jun 8, 2010 02:46
just sold my old garmin gpsmap on ebay so am now in market for cheap,
new chartplotter
looking at Standard Horizon CP180I Chartplotter which gets good
reviews and is about $420 at
http://www.antonline.com/p_CP180I-NX_629915.htm
or Garmin MAP 421S GPS CHARTPLOTTER available for $380.
any preferences?
thanks all
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Author: LarryLarry
Date: Jun 8, 2010 02:45
>> I insist on mowing our large lot with a push mower because I think I
>> need more exercise. it is 1 acre although only about 2/3 is mowable.
>> When I mow, I run over anything organic, branches, large pine cones,
>> etc so my mowers get real abuse. The state of the lawn does not
>> concern me but having snakes run wild does. Last year, the old mower
>> was nearly dead but I wanted to fix it once again but my wife got
>> pissed and threw it away and went and bought a new one, I hated it for
>> some reason, not much power and it always ran poorly.
>> This year, it died and will not start. I just had to do the manly
>> thing and try to repair it so I finally looked it over and found it is
>> a 4 cycle with overhead valves, no wonder it has less power than a 2
>> cycle of the same size. Took off the carb and the bowl was nearly
>> rusted out from all the water that had collected from the ethanol
>> based fuel. OK, I decided, not worth repairing. So, for $160, I
>> bought a new 2 cycle one. It is half the weight and has so much more ...
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Author: Canuck57Canuck57
Date: Jun 8, 2010 02:14
On 07/06/2010 10:36 AM, Frogwatch wrote:
> I insist on mowing our large lot with a push mower because I think I
> need more exercise. it is 1 acre although only about 2/3 is mowable.
> When I mow, I run over anything organic, branches, large pine cones,
> etc so my mowers get real abuse. The state of the lawn does not
> concern me but having snakes run wild does. Last year, the old mower
> was nearly dead but I wanted to fix it once again but my wife got
> pissed and threw it away and went and bought a new one, I hated it for
> some reason, not much power and it always ran poorly.
> This year, it died and will not start. I just had to do the manly
> thing and try to repair it so I finally looked it over and found it is
> a 4 cycle with overhead valves, no wonder it has less power than a...
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Author: Canuck57Canuck57
Date: Jun 8, 2010 02:05
On 07/06/2010 9:38 AM, YukonBound wrote:
>> On Jun 7, 9:45 am, gfretw...@ aol.com wrote: >>> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 07:31:00 -0700 (PDT), Tim gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>On Jun 6, 2:45 pm, gfretw...@ aol.com wrote: >>>>> That was brought home to me again on Carter's Lake. We rented a brand
>>>>> new Bentley pontoon boat for $250 a day ($200 for 4 hours). If you
>>>>> only boat 10-15 days a year you could never own a boat that cheap.
>>>>> That would be particularly true if your boating season is only 13
>>>>> weeks long.
>>>>> If I didn't have a dock behind my house I wouldn't own a boat and a
>>>>> lot of my neighbors do have a boat swinging on a lift and they still
>>>>> don't get out 10 times a year.
>>>
>>>>Apples and anvils, but $250.00 a 4 hr.day times 5 equals what I paid ...
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Author: Canuck57Canuck57
Date: Jun 8, 2010 01:43
On 07/06/2010 11:48 AM, Le Moose wrote:
> On 6/7/2010 1:45 PM, nom=de=plume wrote:
>>> On 6/6/2010 9:40 PM, nom=de=plume wrote:
>>>>> On 6/6/2010 6:20 PM, nom=de=plume wrote:
>>>>>>> On 6/5/2010 6:26 PM, nom=de=plume wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "Larry" A1gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>> news:ZZSdnTa3zO-1BpTRnZ2dnUVZ_h2dnZ2d@giganews.com... ...
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