The ONE Truth

[MurrayM]

You've seen it. I've seen it. Questions initially perceived as having simple cut & dry answers spawn great meandering debates incorporating all the complexities in the boating Universe.

What is the ONE, singular, overarching, indisputable Truth?

 

[CPseudonym]

Boating is fun.

 

[Baggiolini]

Expensive, but worth it!

 

[Marin]

What is the ONE, singular, overarching, indisputable Truth?

That there IS no one, singlular, overarching, indesputable Truth.

 

[Peter B]

Ain't that the truth...?

 

[Keith]

42

 

[Moonstruck]

Sailors have a hard time admitting that they are motor boating 90% of the time.

 

[Great Laker]

If the wife is not happy...

 

[JD]

42

I agree "42" is the answer.

 

[Stelaine]

We will always have questions

 

[Art]

Never underestimate the sea!

When you least expect it... expect it!

 

[Moonstruck]

Never underestimate the sea!

When it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed over night!!!!!

 

[TedB_BC]

It's always low tide when you have to provision the boat.

 

[Portuguese]

Moonstruck is correct about sailors. That is the ONE crude truth!

 

[Giggitoni]

What is the ONE, singular, overarching, indisputable Truth?

A prime number?

 

[twistedtree]

here we go again.....

We need to get back on our boats, at least those of us cooped up for the winter do..... we clearly have too much time on our hands....

 

[SaucySailoress]

A piece of string is exactly twice as long as the distance from it's centre to the end.

 

[ColonyCove]

If the draft of your vessel exceeds the depth of the water, you are aground.

 

[River Cruiser]

If I didn't see it or hear it - it did not happen!

 

[Art]

A piece of string is exactly twice as long as the distance from it's centre to the end.

SaucyS - I don't dare go any further into that one with ya! - LOL

 

[Tom.B]

If we invite JD to come out boating with us, the weather will go bad.

 

[timjet]

What is the ONE, singular, overarching, indisputable Truth?

Regardless of what you might believe the admiral is always in charge.

 

[CPseudonym]

You never really own a boat, it owns you

 

[Art]

Old fisherman never die... they just smell that way! :lol:

 

[Shoalwaters]

There is nothing--absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

 

[Art]

The ONE TRUTH (i.e. the true definition) - You fill in the blanks...

PLEASURE BOAT: Hole in water, surrounded by ______ into which one throws ______ !

 

[Tom.B]

PLEASURE BOAT: Hole in water, surrounded by people that want to rip you off, into which one throws away their life!

 

[Codger2]

If you drop a piece of bread that has peanut butter and jelly on it, it will always land with the P & J down.

 

[Alfton]

It's always low tide when you have to provision the boat.

I would not have understood that unless I had chartered out of Anacortes and provisioned at low tide

 

[Art]

PLEASURE BOAT: Hole in water, surrounded by people that want to rip you off, into which one throws away their life!

OOOUCH!

Wasn't expecting that! Don't Worry... Be Happy!