GL: Boat vs Trailer

[bill fiero]

Bill --     Another suggestion that we began seven years ago --  forget the
big fifth-wheel and the big trawler -- both cumbersome, expensive to maintain,
operate, store, and use -- we suggest a change your perspective.            We
bought a Ford pickup (have since replaced with a Tundra) -- you'd need that
rig for pulling a fifth wheel anyway -- put a comfortable pop-up trailer on
the back (ours is an Alaskan Camper).   Now you have a rig you can live in (we
lived in ours, when not on a boat or overseas, for thirteen years).  Now, buy
a pocket trawler. (We bought a C-Dory 22 Cruiser, and have cruised her 24,000
nautical miles living aboard).  Launch anywhere along the Loop and take off.
Want to spend time ashore, or travel overland to visit family?  Tie up your
little boat at little cost, take a rental car back to your C-Dory, and take
off overland for as long as you wish --then back to the boat and on your way.
What's the cost?  Well, the bucks are obviously a huge savings.  The only real
cost is creature comfort -- you will live in a small space, close to your gal,
and fix dinner on a small stove and enjoy sundowners sitting in small deck
chairs in a state park or in the cockpit anchored in a shallow little cove the
big guys can't get into.       The benefits?  All the money saved going this
way is in your investments and growing while you folks are out having a ball
with life.  There's little fuss and muss with only a camper and a pocket
cruiser to drive, maintain, and enjoy -- and most importantly, you are closer
to the natural world and will "see the places the townsfolk (or big rigs and
boats) will never see"        Check out our website and 'experience' this
style of life: www.geocities.com/bill_fiero./  If you can handle the small
size (and most of the world lives in homes smaller and less comfortable) you
will have a marvelous lifestyle.