Good God, that is a sign of the apocalypse!Quote:
Originally Posted by newty
I say let the kids & dogs start to fend more for themselves.
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Good God, that is a sign of the apocalypse!Quote:
Originally Posted by newty
I say let the kids & dogs start to fend more for themselves.
Definitely quit feeding the cat before cutting back on beer.
Not cut out anytime with family and close friends.
Will be less inclined this year to pull a bunch of kids I hardly know on the tube or burn gas trying to teach newbies how to wakeboard or surf.....(Though I say that now then do it anyways because it is fun seeing people faces the first time they get up once I am on the lake)
I think its a sanity thing - Laura and I were talking about the money spent on the boat the other day. Its like therapy, I'll gladly pay a few thousand to keep the boat at a marina, and whatever it costs to put gas in, because if I didn't have that outlet I'm sure I'd go nuts, and who needs money when you are in a looney bin?
I don't cut back at any cost. I have one car, two SUVs, a motor home, a boat and a motorcycle and I use them as much as I always had. I burn less gas than most people as I live a mile from work and usually walk, I split time in my boat with others who have ski boats and the camping areas for boating are all within 90 miles of home. I used to go to Idaho once a year but since they charge out of staters $20 for an invasive sticker I quit going but it had nothing to do with the price of gas. I usually bring home 25 gallons of gas from Costco when I go there and I have an electric pump that fuels my boat and vehicles.
Someone was telling me the other day that you can buy dyed tax free off road gas much like red diesel. has anyone every heard of this? if i can fill the boat up with off road fuel and save 40-50 cents a gallon this may be worth looking into
Fortunately, I am out of shape and skiing wears me out quickly, so I can go weeks on a tank of gas.
boat lives on a lift so I can save gas by driving the car to the lake but we are leaving a truck up this summer so no 400+ miles at 17mpg per week for muskie fishing
If it was worth, say, $1000 in fuel last year, is it still worth $1300 this year to do the same amount of boating?
It's more like $2000 here in Canada. I just agreed to get my Marina's "launch on demand" service so that I can squeeze an extra 15-20 minutes on the water out of each trip.
We already car-pool to get to the marina. I'm going to insulate the attic and replace the old windows in my house this year to save energy. I already take the bus or work from home during the week. I usually walk to the store. Passengers who have the means already chip in for fuel, so the per-person cost is really not that much.
Teaching beginners uses much less fuel than towing the experts! Explainations, practice off-water pull, positioning boat at idle (repeatedly after they fall)... these things don't use fuel. Pulling an experienced rider for 20 minutes straight, especially with the ballast full, burns fuel. Oh yes, tubing burns lots of fuel too, but we don't do a lot of it.
I am unfamiliar with this "cutting back on boating" that you speak of. That sounds like crazy talk to me.
No way I cut out any of my time on the lake. The yard just may have to suffer this year.