What compels a man to build a boat?

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  1. fraggin
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    fraggin Junior Member

    Glad it was just your arms.... (Hey! you're the one that said artificial pleasure)
     
  2. Butch .H
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    Butch .H Senior Member

    HA! HA!:D :D :D Could you imagine epoxying your hand to your crank. Go build your boat you dirty minded person you:D :D :D
     
  3. fraggin
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    fraggin Junior Member

    I dunno... Whenever my 4 year old is in his pajamas I'd almost swear his hand is epoxied to his....
     
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  4. Butch .H
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    Butch .H Senior Member

    Bless him good boy that:D :D
     
  5. PAR
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    PAR Yacht Designer/Builder

    It's an insidious, brain boring worm that gets into some folks, often those that may have seemed normal earlier in life. It can strike without warning, infests men at a much higher percentage then women. They're are several tests that can be conducted to see if a person has contracted this illness, but treatment hasn't received the funding necessary to establish a true path to symptom relief. There's no known cure other then decapitation, which is an all to frequent occurrence unfortunately in modern times, particularly with the use of miracle goo's, high tech materials and current construction methods.

    Fraggin, they call that a "personal, organic worry stone" . . .
     
  6. Butch .H
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    Butch .H Senior Member

    PAR what do I do when I have finished my re-build.That is my concern. I cant not have a boat in the yard:) .It is a obsession.I am lining up re-builds fast.Some are realy junk but they are boats
     
  7. Kaptin-Jer
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    Kaptin-Jer Semi-Pro

    POVERTY, but the desire to appear rich!
    ESCAPE, no wordily problems can get to you when you are bent in 1/2 trying to get to a bolt in the bilge
    SATISFACTION, Gee you will give me that much for my boat!!
    THERAPY
     
  8. Fanie
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    Fanie Fanie

    That serious kick under the butt rush excitement you get when you first launch it, especially when it floats too. Makes you want to launch it every day :D

    Then the knowledge that YOU did it, it becomes a monument of satisfaction in your life, because it IS an achievement. Most watch crap on TV, we get tired and dirty...

    Lastly that feel you feel when you feel it move unter foot... Damn I get extraction symptoms again. I'm going to make waves in the pool and sit on a lilo there for a while... Nothing beats this :D No not the lilo, the water... Maybe I should drink some...

    I got hit by lightning once... it must be it then. Something got fried ;)
     
  9. Fanie
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    Fanie Fanie

    Sure you can. Paint it like a tree :rolleyes:
     
  10. Fanie
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    Fanie Fanie

    No I want to change my plea. It must be obsession ridden with bull headed stuborness. Par's brain boring worm sounds more like it. Nobody in his right mind does so much laborous work by himself.
     
  11. Kaptin-Jer
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    Kaptin-Jer Semi-Pro

    Only if you have been married more than 10 years. --The peace of a dark bilge, softly rocking at the dock. A cold beer. Silly question, why do we build boats..
     
  12. Manie B
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    jeez i am not alone:D

     
  13. Fanie
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    Fanie Fanie

    Yes you are !!! :D How many of these lunies rocked up there tho help and support you ? :rolleyes:



    My wording is actually wrong. Since I can I want to act like a female and change it again this time to -

    It must be obsession, No bloody body in his right mind does so much laborous work and spend so much money out of his own free will. Unless like Kaptin-Jer says, it's an escape from fate worse than jail ;)

    Not sure why us guys gets punished like we do. It wasn't even us who stole the friggin apple in the first place. Halve our lives, time and energiy gets wasted just trying to stay out of the crap.
     
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    BHOFM Senior Member

    A true optimist! I thought it was more in the 90% range?
     

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    ancient kayaker aka Terry Haines

    Sometimes I forget to take the medication ...
     
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