[Rhodes22-list] A Boat Story

[Robert Skinner]

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/Robert

Tootle wrote:
> 
> Earlier this year, three children of an octogenarian boat building parents
> decided they would get their parents a gift.  The gift was intended to take
> their parents for a trip to the islands this winter.
> 
> While their father loved sailboats, they concluded that it would be better
> for them to have an appropriate motor vessel.  They were to take delivery
> and sail it to a marina near their parents' home on the coast.
> 
> Here is what they ordered:  65' - Custom built motor yacht complete with
> staterooms, a state of the art galley, G.P.S. system and radar for
> navigation, twin supercharged diesel engines, etc.....  $2.5 million.
> 
> And see the picture of the boat on delivery day:
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p13118030/Boat%2B1.bmp Boat+1.bmp
> 
> The day was here and they were on the dock at a booth prepared by the boat
> company.  Champagne, chocolate covered strawberries with cream, and music
> dockside for the excited "soon to be owners" and a small group of
> friends......  costing over $500.00
> 
> Two corporate representatives, crane and rigging complete with faulty
> turnbuckle.....  $2,500 / hour
> 
> And see the picture:
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p13118030/Boat%2B2.bmp Boat+2.bmp
> 
> Watching your dreamboat nose dive into the harbor, accompanied by two
> corporate representatives just prior to "inking" the final paperwork . . . .
> . . Note the guy in the Stern!
> 
> And see the picture:
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p13118030/Boat%2B3.bmp Boat+3.bmp
> 
> One brother said, “I told them "Just forget the whole deal,  I didn't like
> the color anyway!”
> 
> The daughter, who knows a thing or two about her father’s sailboats, turned
> and said, “
> Dad’s boats are self righting.”
> 
> Posted by
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> 
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Robert Skinner  "Squirrel Haven" 
Gorham, Maine         04038-1331
s/v "Little Dipper" & "Edith P."