Been thinking about this lately. Is it???

A) People like myself who take time to clean, repair, change oil, maintain, shrink-wrap, and spend countless hours and money making sure everything is up to par or...

B) The people who have a 15 year old boat who have never checked drive lube, greased wheel bearings, done ANY maintenance, checked to oil at the beginning of the season. use cockpit cover or tarp in winter (if covered at all) and get through the summer for the cost of gas... without any failures!!!

A. Your protecting your asset and being cautious.

B. Are the non boating tool bags that like to boat but don't care.

Call me what ya want but I fall in the A category...

i think the real idiot would show through upon resale time, i'm like you, maintain it 110%, always dry, cleaned and polished up for the next outing, people like that should be counting their blessings nothing major happens to them or someone else, usually its the people who don't give a f@#k about anything that end up collecting people like us that take caring for the boat very seriously

You don't even need to cover them. Just jack the bow up sky high. Boats are meant to be wet, right? Synthetic oil is good for 20,000 miles in the car; It must be good for at least 5 years in the boat....

even better. a neighbor after not changing oil or touching a spark plug for years, decides to change his water pick up hose off bravo drive and does not put on correctly (of course) and it comes off and he overheats the engine till it just

sorry..hit wrong button..engine just shut down.he calls insurance and says he picked up a bag & overheated... ends up with a brand new engine from his insurance sumhow...lol

That's what I mean, had he not touch it, it would've been fine....

Yet when you go to sell buyers will say it's only worth what the beat POS is worth.

You would think, I'm EXHAUSTED just on putting my boat up after use with all the sh*t I do. It's not in my nature to not take the best care of my boat, but I do sometimes question whether it's really worth it.

If you have ANY mechanical ability, then the peace of mind of knowing its all good to go is worth the effort alone! The ones that dont do anything to their boat are the ones that complain the loudest when its in the heat of summer, their boat is down and they dont understand why its taking so long to get it fixed! I dont bother looking at them...(i have one 5 doors down from me thats like that)...cause i know when it comes tiem to sell atleast mine is in the shape i advertise it as...and wont have people complaining its not what i said it was.....so far most of my toys have always been sold in the first or second person to come out and take a look at them...knock on wood..