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Back to that boating thing for a second. Both I and my wife grew up around boats. I grew up around airplanes as well,my wife did not. Most children take to watercraft quite willingly, so there's no reason not to start them young. At first, all they can do is ride in the boat. After a few...

In your case, what is more expensive, the airplane or what you do when you get to your destination?

This flying thing doesn't have to be expensive. If you want to hang glide or paraglide, it's very reasonable. It's having to maintain a 40 plus year old complex mechanical devise that uses a large amount of expensive fuel and expensive storage that gets.. expensive.

This flock of geese flew over today. I counted 75.

Finding a campsite would be interesting.

Smaller than an airliner = small plane.

USEIA Product Supplied data for avgas consumption indicates that the amount of flying done last year is very similar as what was done in 2022 and 2021.

I learned in Grumman AA1b's and AA1c's, I already knew.

Yes. It committed that most unforgivable sin, not flying like a Cessna 172.

Is there a Fresh Market store near you? Their steaks are a step above what you can get in most supermakets.

I don't understand why anyone would care. They were trying to find a tiny coral atoll in a vast sea using very limited navigational tools. They didn't find it, ditched and died. What more do we need to know?

Our all Republican Public Service Commissioners are quite generous with the Southern Company. Southern Company asks for a rate hike, the PSC gives them one. I didn't think it was a big secret that the Republican Party tends to be quite business friendly.

That sure looks like a petroleum fueled fire to me. WFTS-TV is reporting one home was heavily damaged and on fire, and that there were multiple fatalities.

The Southern Company finally got one of its new units of Plant Vogtle operational last summer, 14 years after it was started. The second new unit is still being tested. There was a point where the professional staff of Georgia's public service commission recommended that plant be abandoned, as...

That's where most of the liability will come up. A few airplanes crash into buildings every year. Considering how much fuel an airplane carries, that can be quite a big fire.

It's not just aviation. My umbrella policy excludes our Waverunner. It would probably exclude a motorcycle as well. The primary item I was trying to cover was if one of us badly damaged an expensive car, because our car insurance tops out a $50,000 on property damage.

Yeah, a Cub seats two, the boat seats eight. A Cub has 65 hp, the boat has 360 hp. The big difference is that the whole family likes, and can operate the boat, and the needed license was free rather than $15,000+.

This will be our ninth season, and it hasn’t needed anything more a couple of rubber straps. It’s a jet boat and is amazingly simple.

Nah. We own a 21 foot bowrider. It's kept in a dry stack marina, which is the most expensive way you can keep a boat like this, $4400 a year. Fuel is about $600, insurance $250, maintenance $500 because we have the marina do it, taxes $300. Depreciation is surprisingly low at around $1200. For...