Equipment Insanity - The Seminal Moment

[tracydr]

LOL It must be a very small boat. After many, many years of owning/operating boats, I have learned that nothing can suck money like a boat. I remember hoping, when I put my boat on the yard for it's annual hull cleaning and bottom painting, that I would not find anything to repair. That way I MIGHT be able to get back in the water for not much more than $1000. If I did find something wrong, it was thousands. And I did almost all of the work myself!

You've never owned horses, have you?

 

[keyshunter]

Actually, my ex-wife and daughter were very much into showing horses, and we raised quite a few. I know full well about the expense involved. One thing I do prefer about boats is that I never got the emotional involvement that I did with horses. If a boat breaks, I fix it. Simple. Never shed a tear. I recall spending thousands on vet bills and months of heart rending TLC on an injured horse and having to put him down anyway.

 

[socaljohn]

I started back up last year with a used kit. As my buddy's sac improved to where I was calling the dive with my ST 72 vs his 80 I figured I should tank up and just bought an hp100. And so it begins....

 

[Paladin]

I started back up last year with a used kit. As my buddy's sac improved to where I was calling the dive with my ST 72 vs his 80 I figured I should tank up and just bought an hp100. And so it begins....

Oh, you poor guy! Once you start, it never ends. You fill a room with dive equipment and say to yourself "Okay. now I have everything I need to dive." Then that little flash of chrome catches your eye or the smell of fresh new neoprene wafts through the air...

 

[danpass]

I decided to buy all my own gear when I did all the calculations and found that renting would cost way more in the long run than owning. And once in a while, I see something shiny that I really want.

I did the same and I'm afflicted the same .... "oooh, shiny"