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Who owns the boats?
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Considering older boats can to be cheaper than used cars. My friend bought a 27 ft sail boat for $3000.
Yeah but that's a deceptive number. You can park a car in your driveway, put gas in it, and spend a few hundred bucks on maintenance every year. Keeping a 27' boat in the water, and functioning, is far more expensive. Trailers, dock fees, cleaning, wintering, replacing broken things, engine work, it all adds up. The longer it goes without maintenance, the more expensive it becomes. You can't sail a boat until it sinks into the water the way you might drive a car until it dies. The end of a boat's life is often the most expensive part.
They say a boat is a hole in the water you throw money into.
Same as a car for most people.
Entropy is especially cruel to boats.
No, the two aren't even comparable
When my car dies I don't drown
What kind of boat sinks when it has no power?
... do you think the engine is the only part that needs maintenance?
Do you think that it suddenly loses buoyancy?
Edit: dead implies no power, what boat requires power to float?
Last I checked a dead car doesn't erupt into flames when the power plant dies, or the transmission blows.
Boats don't sink because they can't go forward.
You can row a powerless boat like you can push a dead car.