The True Value Of Boating!
Michael T
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The Admiral just came in as I was typing the Merry Christmas post and was reading it. She said "Holy cow have you made almost 3000 posts?" I looked and said "wow I guess so." She replied (with a laugh) "And here I thought you had an on-line girlfriend with all the time you spend on this forum." I said "Baby, with all the time I spend on this forum I don't have time for another woman and anyway, I am a boat owner I don't have enough money for another woman." So, maybe the true value of boating is that we have neither the time or money to get into too much trouble - unless of course we are in a boating store.
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Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express
Isn’t that the truth, plus how wants to go thru that again, I couldn’t handle another women yelling and telling me what to do or not to do change that shirt wash the dishes cut the grass wash my car where the money I need the cc went shopping to day look what I bought oh lord help me, Sorry lost myself for a minute
Plus my wife has earned the right to kick me around
@raybo3, brother I can't touch that. I bow down to your boating dedication! You are boatings Jedi Master!
Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express
Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express
So we can certainly go into this weekend being so thankful of what we have, the good fortune we have had this year regardless of the set backs as you don't have to look very far to see someone that is in real trouble with their health or other misfortunes they have fell into.
Merry Christmas to all my "rinker family", I wish all of you success in the new year what ever that means to you and thank you for everyone for your patience dealing with me and I can't repay all the help I have received off this forum, absolutely could not make this boat work without it!
Here I thought the topic was going to be an earth shattering revelation on The True Value of Boating and how one man was saved from his stressful existence and how his boat saved him by easing him mind and calming his soul, boy was I wrong.
Merry Christmas and Happy New year, you Rinker guys ROCK
Big Al - 2006 - 270 Express Crusier
Home port: Hammond Ind.
Well, my son's second wife and the mother of our 9 yr old & 3 yr old grandsons went rather nuts after the birth of the 3 yr old. My son's daughter from his first marriage lived with them and was entering her teen years and exerting a will of her own which the step-mother could not tolerate (she is a control freak). So she has estranged us from them, we have not spoken to them for 2 years, we are complete strangers to the youngest, and then last year they had the girl arrested because she was caught with some prescription drugs (they drove her to a nervous breakdown) then she was in the hospital psych ward for a month, then they shipped her off to a residential treatment facility. All of this was unknown to us, but we eventually found out from her half brother in California. She could only stay at that particular place for a certain amount of time, then they were going to make her go to a worse place where she would have been thrown in with a rougher criminal element and that's when we got involved. We went to court and were awarded relative placement and she has lived with us for a year now and has a job which she has never been late for or missed a day, gets herself up at 5 am to get ready for school, is buying her own car, will turn 17 this week and plans to go to Iowa State to be a veterinarian. So what accounts for the difference in her behavior? A non judgemental, unconditional loving household as opposed to one where she was constantly under attack by the stepmother evil b**ch. Oh, and she LOVES going boating!
No question this topic took on more life than I originally intended...but, IMO, in a good way.
I have had boats since I was 11 years old and owned a Rinker of one type or another continuously since 1993.
Rinkers are good looking, fast and tough.
Therefore boating has been a constant for most of my life and made me the better for it.
In 2000 my wife, who I had met when she was 14 and married at 20 was diagnosed with breast cancer. Margot died at home on November 16, 2002 at 7:15 p.m. after a frightful battle with cancer. It was the first snowfall of the winter that year. I remember the tracks in the snow as the hearse drove away and I had to hold onto the front door of our home to resist the urge to run after it.
A few weeks later, on December 12, 2002 just two days before my 52nd birthday - even before I had paid for Margot's funeral - I was sitting in a doctor's office and being told that I had advanced bone marrow cancer and had less than 6 months to live. At the insistence of friends I got a second opinion. Pretty much the same news except that the second oncologist wanted to try some experimental chemotherapy on me. The first 5 months showed no good results. He said lets give it two more tries. That did it. I have had 18 rounds of chemotherapy since then. I had four rounds this summer and four rounds this fall, the last one this December 9th, five days before my 65th birthday. I get a blood transfusion once a month.
For six months of the year I boat, for the other six months I think about boating, for 12 months I have the forum.....and then there's the new Admiral.
Steve, said "Good Grief" ....I'll change that a bit. I have found that there is "Good" and there is "Grief" and there's often d*mn little in between.......but thank goodness for us there's the great healer - boating.
I'm not as good looking as my Rinker and I'm certainly not as fast but I might just be as tough.
Happy New Year to all of us!
Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express