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It's time to empty my pocket again this weekend after saving up all winter.
Marina fees £2,065
Fill boat with fuel £250
Fuel to get to boat £60
Beer and food to watch the big match on Saturday £40

Total £2415 = $3,680

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Regards
Beyond the Blue

"If we improve with age I'm now excellent"


Ex 1998 238 Vista 5.0Gi SX DP
Lexus RX300

Enjoying a day on the water - Priceless

I feel your pain

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Jnizi

2007 Vista 338 "Better Yet"
Previously:
2007 Vista 258 " Just Right"
2005 Horizon 230

It's only money...you'll make more

Tell me about it...I am shopping for slips right now...

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Current Boat:
2004 Sea Ray 320 Sundancer "Nauti Luvin'"

Previous Boats:
1999 298 Vista "Seas The Day"
2008 H200SS "Nauti Luv"
2006 Tahoe Q4

Only £40 for Saturday?

Graham

That's $337.50 in American dollars for fuel just for the Boat. We are complaining about $2.69 a gallon.

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2003 268 Four Winns Vista
F-350 King Ranch Diesel (Tow)
1990 Four Winns Fredom 180

Yep, it could be lower.

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

Yes, due to yet another tax increase on fuel today 1st April, Aprils fools day, so the Government can waste more money on some politically correct cause or increase beaurocratic wastage , petrol/ gas is now about USD 1.75 a litre here !

Graham

Us Yanks are right behind you Brits when it comes to a big intrusive government. How's that government run health care system treating you over there?

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Current Boat: 2000 Four Winns 298 Vista
Previous Boat: 2000 Carver 406MY

$2.69 sound cheap now. We have been hovering around the $3 mark for a while and summer prices are not here yet.

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2000 248 5.7L DP
'92, '94 SXI 750, '08 STX 15F, '12 Ultra LX 300
Videos

We are in the $2.55-$2.70 area locally, at the street. On the water, I think its about $1.00/gallon more

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Current Boat:
2004 Sea Ray 320 Sundancer "Nauti Luvin'"

Previous Boats:
1999 298 Vista "Seas The Day"
2008 H200SS "Nauti Luv"
2006 Tahoe Q4

Well for me at least it's not so much empty the pocket time..since I do just about all the make it ready for the season stuff myself....it's crawling around in the blige time...putting the outdrive back on time...tune up...etc....even though I will swear NEVER to buy another sterndrive (salt water mooring) once I get out on the water it's all good...

BTW I stopped by my mechanics today to pick up some tune up parts (I buy parts from these guys because they are VERY good even though I typically do most of the work myself you never know when you'll need a real mechanic)...and discussing I/Os vs OBs and one of the guys just smiled and said 'we love sterndrives because we make a LOT more money on em than outboards'.....that tells you something....Too bad FW does not sell any OB models at the present....

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

Will someone put an outboard on a Four Winns hull so we can put the "My next boat will be a outboard" conversation to rest? Shesh!

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Jeff
2006 H240 6.2 MX 320HP B3
La Habra, California

It works pretty well, but it can depend on the are you live in though, waiting times vary a lot; we have this stupid thing called "devolution" in the UK where Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own mini governments (how's that for another way to add expense!); they basically decide the education and health strategy for those areas, (plus other really important things like banning electric dog collars in Wales!). Prescription medicines are free in Wales, in England we pay a discounted price for them. Private health insurance is quite common, to jump the queues (Ironically, most of the Consultants working in Private Health Care also work in the NHS; so the skill level in Private and Public health is the same!) But again, the level of beaurocracy in the NHS can be horrendous; my wife is a Physiotherapist in the NHS, she tells me that less than 50% of her time is spent actually treating patients. The rest of her time is spent feeding the machine with forms etc

Graham

Hmmm, devolution. I can't think of a better term to describe all of it.

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic