Okay guys, just noticed this thread.

What did I miss ?

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LOL.

i got my flippy floppies

Have seen pic from the glass shop and it's all BIG stuff that they were working on. Must have had a row 6 long and. 4 wide of big crusers

way to much jealously on this thread! if you say you are not jealous of what phil is doing, then you are full of sh#t. you wouldn't keep digging and digging as you are for something negative such as the last comment about what he owes on his truck wtf, grow up. stop trying to justify your negative comments and start a thread about your own pos. tell me why a 19 year old kid couldn't buy a cheap boat that needed tlc. when i was 18 yrs old i was bringing home $2500 a week in the environmental field, it's not hard to do if you have a little drive and a descent work ethic. i applaud phil for what he has done and encourage him to keep moving forward in a field that he has a passion for. as for the rest of the negative nellies on here, i encourage you to find a sport that fits your wallet a little better so you don't have to piss on the one's that do and can afford and enjoy this sport

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I can tell you for me it is not jealousy. I'd be a hypocrite to say so because I bought mine at 25 or 26.

I owe plenty on my truck.

Lots of us don't like the kid because he screwed another member out of the boat that had a deposit on it and then has come on here and acted like a brash idiot the entire time.


http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/c...on-tips-2.html

See post 43 (and the couple before it where he basically is telling the guy who has a deposit on it that it is junk and the seller is unprofessional). Just a ****ty thing to do to other boaters in my opinion.

I have no problem with him having that boat at 19 whether it is his money or his dads. Doesn't matter to me. I plan on putting my cafe on my fathers lift in a 5-10 years and buying a big cat. At that point my kids will be running around here in a cafe before they have a drivers license so I'd be the ultimate hypocrite if I had any ill-will towards him having the boat. I just think his entire approach has been ****ty.

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Aces to seaford as that was my point. I give parts away advice and my time to help any and all boaters. He screwed another boater/member that's guillotine status in my eyes.

This is the thread that never dies.

I don't get it really. If you read from post 43 back he's talking about how he was trying to buy the boat and was in contact with the seller. Seller should've started a bidding war is what he should've done! But how is it money talks and BS walks 99.9% of the time except for this instance. One dude puts a deposit down other shows up with cash. Which one you going to sell to? You take a deposit almost as a favor to the buyer in my eye. If I was selling my boat and someone said hey, here's 2k to hold the boat until I can arrange for a surveyor to come and spend the day screwing around with it (causing me a day as well) and then if I like the results I'll buy it. Ok. Cool. Next day second dude shows up with asking price and wants to drive off with it? Yea, money talks. Deposit returned. And I find it hard to believe anyone one this board would sit on a deposit when they have asking price in hand. And on the flip side of that If my deposit was returned I wouldn't be pissed, I'd be a little bummed. But I'd take personal responsibility for not jumping on things quicker. Win some lose some.

But you guys are on an endless which hunt. Jesus. Let it go already. I get there was some FB stuff too but since I don't Bookface I wasn't privy to those interactions.

I like most dudes from what I've seen on both sides of this "fight". But I gotta tell ya, as an outsider looking in, all I've seen from the kids posts is respectful and honest replies. And I don't see that he screwed anyone else because he showed up with cash when someone else only showed up with a deposit.

And I have to chuckle a little that while we're here in OSO hashing this out, where's the kid? He's out boating in LOTO with the boat he brought back to life himself. Irony.

Tank I respectfully disagree. Deposited us show of faith and a hand shake in my eyes. It shouldn't be about the money, and I understand it's business, but still show good business practice and ethics. If you say you will hold it on deposit you should be a man if your word. I just sends guy a deposit on a truck that's 2000 miles away. For obvious reasons I can't just walk up and pay for it. So done one becomes by and says " hey how much ?"," It's X fir the truck." " ok cool I'm down, let me get a bank check and come back" So I loose out to no fault of my own? Poor business and unfair. Bad karma all around.