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From: Bryan Genez (no email)
Date: Sun Jun 20 2004 - 14:18:43 EDT
David Wilsmore wrote:
> A list of things that seem harder to maintain than was worth can be kinda
> difficult to build, especially as some things I discounted immediately,
> without the actual experience of them "not being worth it". The two main
> things that spring to mind are a reverse osmosis water maker and
> refrigeration.
>
> Checking my old to-buy lists come up with these things I also chose to do
> without due to budget restrictions:
> Dingy outboard, Fixed mount GPS, Wind generator, entertainment/stereo
> system/cockpit speakers etc.
> Large inverter, Instrument repeaters, Wind Instrumentation, electric
> auto-pilot (but I am seriously reconsidering this one!)....
>
> What something is "worth" can be highly personal. Makes is hard to
> determine if something is "worth it" for me. I have found information
> about what wasn't used as much as was expected more useful... any
> information that trims stuff from my want list sure beats adding to it!!
>
> Perhaps another way to phrase it is "what stuff got thrown overboard from
> frustration?" or some-such..
The biggest issue I have with this thread is the implicit assumption that
every product within the same category is essentially equal. In other
words, every electric auto-pilot is the same, every refrigeration system is
the same, etc.
They're not.
The fact that one cruiser had unmentionable problems with a piece of
equipment must be qualified with the manufacturer, the installer, the user,
and the maintainer. As each of these qualifiers change, so do the bottom
lines of cost and usefulness.
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