With age creeping up daily on me, and just reading Walter P's comment about hanging up boating at 81, I have a question/poll?
Discounting sudden onset health problems, at what age do members exit the Hatteras ownership experience by choice?
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Thread: When is enough, enough
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07-12-2018 08:04 AM #1Senior Member
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When is enough, enough
Pete
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07-12-2018 08:08 AM #2Senior Member
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Re: When is enough, enough
65 and the worse thing I ever did could kick myself in the butt.
Bill Allen 1973 43 dc
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07-12-2018 09:12 AM #3Senior Member
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Re: When is enough, enough
I am 66 now. Hope to keep it going as long as I can. However, my wife is older than me and has a harder time in helping out in docking, etc. Perhaps the writing is on the wall but just don't want to see it.
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07-12-2018 09:41 AM #4Senior Member
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Re: When is enough, enough
BTW, I am coming up quickly on 75. I am in the middle of replacing 5 Lifeline 8D batteries, single handed. Old have been removed and one new is installed to maintain 12 volts, just in case, as I take advantage of all the space available to do other maintenance. I have definitely found that as the muscle decreases, more creative engineering thinking is required.
I also deal with a personality trait called perfectionism. Makes it hard to subcontract work. I have taken a few steps down this road, hiring out boat washing, bottom painting, and exterior detailing.Pete
1976 Hatteras 48 LRC
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07-12-2018 10:58 AM #5Senior Member
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Re: When is enough, enough
To paraphrase my friends in the NRA, "when they pry my cold dead fingers from around the wheel."
Everyone should believe in something - I believe I will go fishing - Henry David Thoreau
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07-12-2018 11:17 AM #6Senior Member
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Re: When is enough, enough
It more a matter of your personal fitness than age.
That said, 80 plus or minus seems to be the number where most leave the captaining to others.
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07-12-2018 11:22 AM #7Senior Member
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Re: When is enough, enough
I've planned for the next owner of Blue Note in my estate planning. I have no intent to sell her, ever. I decided long ago that the idea of watching someone else drive her away was more than I could bear, so I've made my mind up that when my boat and I part company, it will be when I die. Which hopefully will be a long time from now.
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07-12-2018 03:06 PM #9
Re: When is enough, enough
My son will take over and treat me like a VIP.
I hope he see this.Scott
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Port Canaveral Florida.
Marine Electronics and Electrical Products Distributor.
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07-12-2018 03:29 PM #10Senior Member
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