In Reply to: expensive local boats posted by Ross-O on July 21, 2005 at 12:49:55:

Your own boat goes
where you want to go
when you want to go
with who you want to go with.

But it's not cheaper. I've had my Boston Whaler seven and a half
years, and it gets used about 70 days a year. My most wildly
optimistic financial models say I'm just starting to break even
relative to using the Monterey commercial boats. The realistic
models say I might someday. The pesimistic ones say it never
will. But it's been worth every penny.

Chuck