- Aug 20, 2021
- 1,314
- Boat Info
- Started out as MAYBE A DANCER
Became a Dancer - 12/23/21
- Engines
- 450 DA Sundancer running CAT 3126
What have I missed?
BEST !
RWS
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Well, yes and no. I know plenty of people who have moved up to newer boats with all of the things that the original poster is happy to be without and they have been trouble free (so far) and they would never go back. For us however, because we have always liked to cruise, less is better. The classic definition of “cruising” is “repairing your boat in unfamiliar places” and owning a boat that doesn’t require a tech with a laptop to tell you everything is fine, you just need a new sensor or there’s a lose wire on a sensor or of course worse, is a great advantage. if you know how to tune up a lawn mower you can change injectors and adjust the valves in our golden oldie.I don't get it. You're creating a graphic highlighting all of the things your boat does not have? For what purpose?
There's a lot of confirmation bias around here, myself included. But I think most of us are kidding ourselves if we think our boats are actually better than the new stuff out there. We're telling ourselves these things because we simply can't afford the new stuff...so ours must be just as good or better because, well, we say so.
Well, yes and no. I know plenty of people who have moved up to newer boats with all of the things that the original poster is happy to be without and they have been trouble free (so far) and they would never go back. For us however, because we have always liked to cruise, less is better. The classic definition of “cruising” is “repairing your boat in unfamiliar places” and owning a boat that doesn’t require a tech with a laptop to tell you everything is fine, you just need a new sensor or there’s a lose wire on a sensor or of course worse, is a great advantage. if you know how to tune up a lawn mower you can change injectors and adjust the valves in our golden oldie.
Yep. Wait, what’s a carburetor?I don't entirely disagree. But I'm just old enough to remember when fuel injection was a hot new thing. All the old timers at that time hated the idea and said exactly the same thing - "so what, we're all going to need to carry laptops around to work on these things? Give me carb's or give me death!".
I just think we sound like antiques when we say this stuff
Most of us are antiquesI don't entirely disagree. But I'm just old enough to remember when fuel injection was a hot new thing. All the old timers at that time hated the idea and said exactly the same thing - "so what, we're all going to need to carry laptops around to work on these things? Give me carb's or give me death!".
I just think we sound like antiques when we say this stuff
NO !
She's NOT FOR SALE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's just a comparison to newer, better, tech, engineering and cost.
Truthfully, IMHO, this is a better boat than what it could be replaced for new/newer in this day and age.
OH NO, This boat will not go on sale till after I'm dead.
BEST !
RWS
You missed that you can start it after a nuclear explosion, and girls in bikinis like big boats.