A quote from another forum. Thought it was well said.
We are kept from the water not because we are working on our boats, but because we are convinced that our boats must look a certain way.
For some, this means more work to prevent maintainence than to do it. For others, it means more work to earn the money to buy a near no-maintainence product than to maintain it.
The advantage of balancing these two kind of work, for some, is the best option. The boat maintainence is entirely relative to “work done”, so it is always proportionate to the enjoyment of the craft. Not always so with all up-front costs. A near maintainence-free boat may never see water, but it’s too late. You now own it, and possibly still owe on it.
Then too, many aspects of boat maintainence are very enjoyable, a kind of “pay as you go” thing where “payment” ain’t so bad.
To each, his own. What makes sense to one isn’t applicable to another. Some people even seek the excitement of going to sea in a leaky tub, and more power to them. Their reasons are as good as anyones.
84’ 18 Privateer
08’ Yamaha 90
There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find.