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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Sun Jun 20 2004 - 16:55:52 EDT
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 14:18:43 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but what you really
want here is the Annual SSCA Equipment Survey.
grandma Rosalie
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