I'm 47 and have always had cars ,toys etc, just not a boat,till a few years ago that was actually mine. We are/ were a young married couple,who now have a couple of well rounded girls ,one nearly finished university and second finishing highschool and enrolled in Techinical institute for next year.BTW we are coming up on 25year anniversary.

We had different priorites as do most people,now we are slowly getting to OUR FUN carefree years??. My comments were not to chastise Young people in general,especially ones boating...

Here in Alberta ,particularily Calgary. There is a LOT of OIL and gas and Technology Money out there,and with it goes the Spoils to a lot of Kids. It is not uncommon to go to dealers and just Buy a boat outright,sometimes cash. I have seen it done... That is definetely not MY case. I worked hard for most of our boat and had a little inheritance help.

This was not saying there are exceptions and gladly there are many as many are testifying too.Good on you,weather buying or financing,is not the issue,my concern is the Spoiled rotten kids,that have no respect for there stuff,my stuff,etc. This just happens to be fairly common on a few close lakes to where we live.