It's a boat!
Jun. 13th, 2021 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nosrednaydujSaturday night we saw an ad on craigslist (interestingly it didn't trigger our searches for "tri hull", despite having the phrase. Ken had made a second search for "15 and 60 HP" (the 15 being the number of feet long he wants the boat, but there's too many possible spellings of "feet" to make a search), and that one was triggered. So at least we got to see the boat, but we are confused why the other saved search didn't trigger.
It was $4500, which is more than the other boats we've been looking at, but we did think those were quite underpriced. The engine is a two-stroke, which is unfortunate, because they are all polluting, although this one is ever so slightly less polluting because it has "oil injection" so the oil that is burned along with the fuel is less, because some system injects a different amount depending on RPM or something, whereas when you put it directly in the fuel, you have to put in the maximum amount that could ever be needed.
It's complicated to figure out whether we should repower this boat. What is the embodied pollution in a brand-new engine? How does it compare with the pollution that we will be generating by running this worse engine? What about the fact that when we repower and turn in this older engine, somebody might buy it, and then they would run it, and then that would defeat the point. Maybe, it's so old, 1988, that it would just be junked no matter what, even if it were still working. Anyway, we can't get a new engine this summer at all, so we will just run it this summer at least.
Since we heard about this on Saturday evening, and picked it up on Sunday morning, banks were not open in the intervening time. The average account allows you to get $500 or thereabouts out of your ATM once a day. We had some already from our previous aborted attempt to get a boat from the guy who sold it to somebody else after he had agreed to sell it to us, but not nearly enough. It turns out that the people with whom we hang out all have ready cash. We are not the people who would not be able to handle a $400 emergency that you often read about in the paper. White privilege I suppose. Anyway, we had dinner on Saturday evening with a couple of friends because it was Valerie's birthday. So, the activity of the evening was all trucking off to the ATM that was known to dispense $100 bills (I really didn't want to give the guy $4500 in 20s), and each person getting $500. That left us with just about $1000 shy, so Ken and I repeated the exercise this morning.
The boat is in pretty good shape for a 45-year-old boat with a 32-year-old motor. It doesn't have a ladder, which means that it will be tricky to get me back in the boat after skiing. I poked my head under the transom to see about installing the kind we had on the old boat, but things looked complicated so we may end up with the kind you just hook over the gunwale.
So now we have to do all the bureaucracy, and get it launched, and find out if it will really be the excellent ski boat we are expecting.
It was $4500, which is more than the other boats we've been looking at, but we did think those were quite underpriced. The engine is a two-stroke, which is unfortunate, because they are all polluting, although this one is ever so slightly less polluting because it has "oil injection" so the oil that is burned along with the fuel is less, because some system injects a different amount depending on RPM or something, whereas when you put it directly in the fuel, you have to put in the maximum amount that could ever be needed.
It's complicated to figure out whether we should repower this boat. What is the embodied pollution in a brand-new engine? How does it compare with the pollution that we will be generating by running this worse engine? What about the fact that when we repower and turn in this older engine, somebody might buy it, and then they would run it, and then that would defeat the point. Maybe, it's so old, 1988, that it would just be junked no matter what, even if it were still working. Anyway, we can't get a new engine this summer at all, so we will just run it this summer at least.
Since we heard about this on Saturday evening, and picked it up on Sunday morning, banks were not open in the intervening time. The average account allows you to get $500 or thereabouts out of your ATM once a day. We had some already from our previous aborted attempt to get a boat from the guy who sold it to somebody else after he had agreed to sell it to us, but not nearly enough. It turns out that the people with whom we hang out all have ready cash. We are not the people who would not be able to handle a $400 emergency that you often read about in the paper. White privilege I suppose. Anyway, we had dinner on Saturday evening with a couple of friends because it was Valerie's birthday. So, the activity of the evening was all trucking off to the ATM that was known to dispense $100 bills (I really didn't want to give the guy $4500 in 20s), and each person getting $500. That left us with just about $1000 shy, so Ken and I repeated the exercise this morning.
The boat is in pretty good shape for a 45-year-old boat with a 32-year-old motor. It doesn't have a ladder, which means that it will be tricky to get me back in the boat after skiing. I poked my head under the transom to see about installing the kind we had on the old boat, but things looked complicated so we may end up with the kind you just hook over the gunwale.
So now we have to do all the bureaucracy, and get it launched, and find out if it will really be the excellent ski boat we are expecting.
