Seriously.

I'm not sure exactly how much the boat you describe would cost, but......


I'd spread that dough around on all kinds of cool trips to many different places, the intitial boat investment would be enough to take a quality trip every year for the next 10 years, the maintenence and fuel/license costs would get you somewhere cool for the 10 years following that.

let's say that we don't get these fishruns back on the rise, let's also say that fuel prices keep going up...or even *just* stay the same, I would predict that another couple of years of declining runs and you won't be able to fish out of your boat much and neither will anybody else, so, a bunch of boats will be on the market with no buyers, leaving you holding the bag....could happen.

..or, you just save the cash and keep trippin' around the world goin' wherever the gettin' is good, seein' and doin' a bunch of cool stuff.

Just another way of lookin' at it.

that's what i'd do

stam