Who owns the boats?
Who owns the boats?
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Yeah. With 10 billion people in the world, only 0.0001% of people need to be boat owners for there to be a million boat owners... And I'd be willing to be the actual % is higher than that
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The amount of people in a populated area is beyond comprehension. You can look at the numbers, but being aware of how many people there actually are is a rare epiphany. I was driving in rush hour traffic a few days ago and had a touch of it - I could see the line of lights both ways stretching out for a few miles and realized that I was but one in this sea of people, and it was but an instant of an hours-long flow of cars.
A marina full of boats isn't that many compared to lanes of stopped cars for miles.
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Considering older boats can to be cheaper than used cars. My friend bought a 27 ft sail boat for $3000.
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Yeah but that's a deceptive number. You can park a car in your driveway, put gas in it, and spend a few hundred bucks on maintenance every year. Keeping a 27' boat in the water, and functioning, is far more expensive. Trailers, dock fees, cleaning, wintering, replacing broken things, engine work, it all adds up. The longer it goes without maintenance, the more expensive it becomes. You can't sail a boat until it sinks into the water the way you might drive a car until it dies. The end of a boat's life is often the most expensive part.
They say a boat is a hole in the water you throw money into.
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Same as a car for most people.
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Entropy is especially cruel to boats.
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No, the two aren't even comparable
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When my car dies I don't drown
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What kind of boat sinks when it has no power?
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... do you think the engine is the only part that needs maintenance?
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Do you think that it suddenly loses buoyancy?
Edit: dead implies no power, what boat requires power to float?
Last I checked a dead car doesn't erupt into flames when the power plant dies, or the transmission blows.
Boats don't sink because they can't go forward.
You can row a powerless boat like you can push a dead car.
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There are many failure modes on a boat.
An engine failure can mean running around on rocks and wrecking the hull, or a failure of a through hull fitting can flood the boat, or a failure of the hull itself.
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And a loss of brakes can put you over a cliff in a car.
All these failures are the same types of failures a car can have.
Cars can get you stranded and trapped.
None of what you stated makes boats any more dangerous than cars.
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