Upgrade Reasoning
 

What's the best excuse you have used to legitimize an boat purchase or upgrade to a spouse or significant other?? :grinser010:

honey,look what i baught for you today.:party-smiley-004:

Told the most recent one if she gets in the way of my boat or boating activities she can and will be replaced. It's easy when you make it sound like its their decision. :evilb:

but she writes the checks :eek:















ROCK ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:coolcowboy:
I DON'T PLAY BASEBALL BUT I HIT ALOT OF HOME RUNS ...:drink::hitit:
ITS A SKATER NATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! :ernaehrung004::cheer::party-smiley-048::bong::cheer::party-smiley-020::bong::ernaehrung004:

How many times have you been divorced? :party-smiley-004:

I upgraded last year and my wife is very happy. Usually if the upgrade includes a smoother ride, and better toilet facilities, most wifes are on-board. :drink:

It is better to ask for forgiveness than permission! :party-smiley-004:

I was able to convince mine that we needed the additional room. ;) With 2 kids and the occasional couple as passengers the Pantera wasn't quite cutting it. :evilb: :drink:

If I`m paying the bills I`m making the decisions.

NEXT!:drink:

If its a couple or family activity that both of you enjoy then the process is a little simpler.

If its your TOY and she tolerates the ownership and activities by you then the best course of action is you get a bigger or better boat-she gets a new kitchen or home upgrade,or car, or jewelry, in other words -Offsetting Compensation!

Been happily married 43 years to the same beautiful women and it always worked for me, first a 21 footer, then a 28 footer, then a 36 footer, then a 50 footer!
I bought alot of homes, cars, jewelry and vacations and we had a lot of fun with all the purchases!

If Momma Ain't Happy, Ain't No One Happy!

Best Regards,
Ray @ Raylar

Thank goodness my wife loves boating and knew my passion before we got married!

That said:
After popping three Xr drives since bumping up the 575's to 700's (another one of those well while we have to rebuild them, might as well bump them up....), I simply told her we can spend the money in the offseason in one lump sum or we can keep rolling the dice with the Xr's.

Simple math made it make sense:
3 blown Xrs = the cost of the upgrade to the IMCO's
(add the multiple hours of idling, getting the truck & trailer, etc.)

Time is as precious a commodity as money when it comes to boating. Thankfully the IMCO's (and the boat) ran trouble free all year!

I agree if your spouse doesnt work. But if she does then its a joint decision. Either way does your boat need money thrown into it or does your house, retirement accounts etc. Its all relative, but do a cost anaylsis sometimes cheaper and easier to buy new.

+1. It is hard to argue with spending quality time with the family. You need to go bigger for the safety of the family and you need to refresh the power for reliability and ultimately the safety of the family.

My reasoning for going bigger was that my GF has back problems and she was hesitant about going out in the 22 ft Crownline. I convinced her that we could go as fast as we wanted in the 32 Victory and it wouldn't beat her up. Best move I've made in years.... She was skeptical until her first ride, now she LOVES the boat!

BTW, yes It's my money, but I tend to be like Ray and keep her happy.

Space was my best arguement, hence the MCOB. It only took one ride on a my friends wakeboard boat on 2ft chop day for her to hop back on ours as quick as she could. She appreciated much more after that.

I wouldn't know. My wife keeps pushing me to get bigger and better boats. :kiss:

This almost always works...Our next one HAS to have a shower (or so I'm told) That puts us in a small group of boats that will still run 80 :grinser010:

Mine is the same way. Boating is probably the single activity that both of us equally enjoy.

You know Andrea is the same way!

I have to figure out how to keep my boat and afford a 40SS with diesels and Arnesons! Then we could cruise the Islands!

You have to preach safety. Bigger is safer, more room, a real toilet will help as well. Both of my motors are getting rebuilt right now which my wife isn't to thrilled about and then I just spent 4 grand on new hydraulic steering. The steering went over no problem because I explained to her how much safer it was and we boat with our young children.

I've never asked. My wife has not seen our last 2 boats until they were in the driveway.
With the rough water at LOTO on the weekends that just keeps getting rougher every year, she is always ready to get a bigger boat.

My wife insisted on going on the sea trial. She wanted to make sure it was on a rough day too. Our 24' scared her and she complained about the ride. She seems to like the 30 though.

You could always tell her you are making up for the Manhood issue she already knows about. :drink:

The purchase gets approved by the house CFO. After that, all upgrades and maintenance gets done with a secret fund. She has no idea what it costs to run this thing and I think we are all happier in the end this way. :grinser010:

The head and better sleeping arrangements have always been a plus on her side. The fact it goes 20 mph faster never really came up. :lolhit:

So many practical reasons :angry-smiley-038: whats with you guys??? Truth though, if momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy! No wife for me yet so I just get smiles and "go for it honey"

Me too, i can afford it and i am spending my money not hers, plus she loves boating so that helps. There will be a fight over the next one though when i go from center console to 40 skater!

With the amount of running you do I bet the cost is near invisible anyway :lolhit: Lets get that beotch out this year now would ya?

I do like this one alot though.... :kiss:

I just tell her how easy it is to flip boats in this economy:lolhit:

Try explaining to your wife that you want a new set of drives ( imco's ) for the new boat you just got a month before, see how that goes over.

I'll be curious if she notices :)

That's funny! :lolhit: When I come out to play your usually in hiding. :party-smiley-004:

I plan to play but fuel prices keep going up it may only be once!:angry-smiley-038:

True story; after complaining for 20 plus years about not having a Cigarette wife said " I'm tired of hearing about it, if you don’t go buy the damn thing I will" Concerned that she might order wrong power and color, caught quick flight to Miami ordered boat five days later.

Seemed like the right thing to do.

Persistence does pay off!

Cheers!

I buy what I want, my money....... she buys what she wants for the most part also.

See post #10 - :party-smiley-004::drink:

Now that's funny stuff!!! :lolhit:

Same here. Mine is just as much into the boating lifestyle as I am. Our boats never leave the dock w/o her in it.
Our main boat now we say is hers. She really wanted a cruiser, and talked me into it. (gotta say I really enjoy it though since we pretty much live on it 4 days a week) I just can't bring myself to sell the Fountain, even though it's only seen water 3 weekends last 2 1/2 yrs.


So no need to find reasoning.

Mine is easiest to explain with photos...

This
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PLUS This
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EQUALS This
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Wasn't hard at all to sneak that one past the spousal unit :drink: She never really was much of a fan of the "Death Rocket" as she called it, haha.

congrats nice boat . you deserve it after twenty years

SHe wanted faster and bigger as much as me. I would show her boats and she would say not colorful enough. Next is how fast will it go?(becasue she likes to go fast). Guys Ive got it good!!!!!!!!!!!

I got it easy. Wife loves the boat & being on water as much as I do. Her only stipulation, never a catamaran, only V bottom boats. She enjoys speed too which is great, unless it is some super nasty water....then she wants to run in the 40's.

Well after being out of boating for a few years, and moving down to
Fl 9 years ago got the bug again. So my fiencee went back up to NY to
Help her boss out at her old job for a few weeks. She tried reaching me
On Saturday morning and was not able to reach me. Then in the afternoon she got a hold of me, and asked where have I been I started laughing and told her just bought a boat and trailing it home.
Well she never came back home she stayed up in NY, but it turned out to be the best boat that I have ever bought.

Damn that's brutal... Hey you dodged the bullet!!! :evilb: