Small Boat Plans And Kits | and in the How paying a lot of money does not always get you a good boat department

Small Boat Plans And Kits

Webb Chiles points out the one great advantage of the Southern Hemisphere,
twisted beyond repair, and we really should be better than this...

You really should read this article by Charles Doane.

Really!

Listening to Glen Hansard

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Pontoon Boat Plans Aluminum | In the buyer beware department

Pontoon Boat Plans Aluminum

Some hardcore Dazzle, cleaning up trash in Patagonia, and its funny how when I read this I found myself thinking of current trends in yacht design, boat building, and the cruising community...

Yesterday I came across someone who was selling a mounting bracket for a self-steering gear and asking $1000 for it as it was "new" and if you were to buy it from the company who made it youd be out of pocket for nearly $1600.

I found the quoted retail price to be doubtful so trundled over to the companies site and lo and behold the part in question cost $1593... OUCH!

I then check my various materials catalogs and price lists to see what the actual cost of said bracket amounted to and came up with a number of around $150 for materials and labor so with a 100% markup lets say a fair price would be somewhere around $300. Of course, those figures are based with me going out and building one bracket and we really should factor in that a company building many gears would have the added advantage of bulk buying materials, labor saving tooling, and systematic production so the cost should really be a whole lot less...

Which tells me theyre either inept, greedy, or a combination of the two. Pretty normal for a marine business in the year 2015.

I hear a lot of excuses on why marine businesses have to price stuff at silly prices... small market, niche market, and so on but every time I look at silly expensive products I still find that theres a certain aroma akin to five-day old mackerel festering in the sun somewhere in the mix...

That said, the fault is really not with the builders and providers of said gear because faced with consumers who will blindly pay silly money for gear simply because its for a boat, even the most honorable person will be hard pressed not to take advantage and price their products accordingly.

Just something to think about while youre catching your breath from your Black Friday adventures,,,

Listening to the Battlefield

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Wooden Boat Plans And Kits | In the Dont let the door hit you in the ass on the way out department

Wooden Boat Plans And Kits

A good reason to ask yourelf why youre buying Nestlé products, about that "middle class", and a little needful watching...

Pretty much says it all...

Listening to Kevin Large

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Boat Plans Catamaran | In the Id be pissed off department

Boat Plans Catamaran

Ten things scarier (and much more likely to kill you) than terrorism, an editorial of note somewhat late to the party, and someone else who finds the plethora of faux Twain quotes just as irritating as I do...

Speaking of faux Mark Twain quotes...

Listening to The Wild Reeds

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Dinghy Boat Plans | In the stay off my lawn department

Dinghy Boat Plans

In the "dangerous with slapstick incompetence" department, unsurprising but still depressing news, and it appears we have something of a god conundrum...

Im having one of those old fart crotchety/curmudgeonly days.

First of all, I have a big 65+ foot charter cat anchored on top of us and its just off-putting that, in an anchorage with tons of room, they feel the need to get so up close and personal. That said, Im sure their clients will enjoy the show when I take my afternoon shower as well as todays ongoing playlist which is going to be heavy on Captain Beefheart, Yoko Onos greatest hits, and a newly discovered album of a Ukrainian polka band doing Black Flag to listen to while I polish a couple of chainplates with an angle grinder.

Meanwhile, Im trying to buy a $6 flashlight from Amazon and the only company that will sell it to me wants to charge $50 to ship it.

Oh yeah, and that Hitler/Mussolini/Kim Jon-un wannabee with the eternal bad hair day still seems to be 50% of my news feeds which is insane, crap in your pants scary, and all kinds of irritating.

So, pretty much just a normal day at anchor.

Listening to Soldat Louis

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