The Boating Lifestyle
- Author Michael Dickens
- Published May 31, 2011
- Word count 903
As a boater it occasionally becomes difficult to explain to non-boaters what the love affair is all about. Possibly it's an illness; at least it's a bug. A number of us use our vessels as an abode, treating her like a member of the family; others utilize them to earn a living on the sea. I do have a tendency of talking to our trawler, the Patricia Ann; she talks back but in ways only I can understand. She has become a safe haven of sorts, a protected harbor. So what are the reasons to go boating?
Boating is Just Plain Pleasure
There are numerous activities to investigate when it comes to getting out on the water, regardless of whether you prefer to deep sea or inshore fish, snorkel and dive, cruise, get away for the weekend, throw a party, gunk hole, explore or just enjoy relaxing on the water.
You can accomplish one of them or all of them, the selection is yours. Boating is pleasurable, enjoy!
Boating is an Affordable Activity
Do you feel that pleasure boating is too pricey for your financial plan? Well reassess. Boating is no more pricey than belonging to the local country club. If financing is desirable, a lot of boats can be financed at very good rates. Expert marine finance brokers will assist you to get you the finest interest rates amongst a host of lenders. They will help you save cash and get you the top financing package to be had.
Boats Improve Your Quality of Life
The instant you start to get behind the helm and cruising on a trawler, you'll notice how simple it is to leave your fears behind. The sun is at your back, the wind is in your face. Pleasure boating gives you a positive outlet for leisure that reduces everyday pressures and gives inspiring opportunities for self discovery, regardless of whether it's learning how to cruise a boat or merely enjoying the warmth of a July evening sunset after a day cruise.
Simply Playing Around in Boats
A month-long boating journey to the Bahamas, a stimulating jaunt to the Continental Shelf in pursuit of tuna or just relaxing on the back deck with your favorite libation, boating provides fans with many spirited water born activities from which to choose. Living on our trawler, we can say that merely inhaling the salt air emanating from the sea can go a long way in the direction of improving one's disposition, in addition to the added bodily, mental and emotional benefits it provides. For nearly all boaters, simply playing around in boats is all there needs to be.
Boating Reduces Tension
From experience I am able to state that a little bit of boating fun on a frequent basis will go a long way in the direction of removing worry and anxiety. Actually, a NMMA survey of in excess of 1,000 American households a few years back listed boating in the top-three of all stress-relieving pleasure activities.
You Are Near to the Water
About 90% of Americans live less than one hour's drive from a river, an ocean or other body of navigable water; I bet you do too.
Boating Means Bonding with Friends and Relatives
Almost 50% of all US families, in an analysis by the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), showed fishing as their desired boating pastime followed by cruising and merely relaxing with relatives and friends. To many people, my wife and I included, the greatest feature concerning boating does not involve the most up-to-date go-fast boat or the number of fish caught, the favorite part of boating is just the opportunity it makes possible for boating amusement with acquaintances and family. Pleasure boating is first-class time spent away from work, TV and the video games, building a situation that brings compatible people together and creates stories that last eternally.
Boating is Handy
Since over 90% of us Americans dwell less than one hour's drive from a navigable body of water, you could be enjoying the clear air and open water straight away. In fact, the ease of boating enables us to take our trawler out for a mini-vacation whenever the need hits us, as an option to other personal pleasure activities which can quickly turn out to be even more costly and time-consuming. We take the motel room and restaurant with us.
Boating Supplies Personal Growth
Leisure boating supplies lots of opportunities for personal development and growth. It might be instilling your toddler with self-assurance as she learns how to properly bait a hook. It can be enjoying the taste of that fresh tuna that you caught offshore in the Gulfstream aboard your forty three foot Hatteras sportfish or it might be the triumph of learning how to perform dead-reckoning aboard your 44' Albin trawler. Boating gives a lot of evident benefits and achieved goals for everyone.
Leisure Yachting is Simple to Learn
If you are just beginning with yachting, no problem, we all had to become skilled somehow. There are many boating classes with the Power Squadron and local boating groups from which to select. And some of us yacht brokers offer our buyers complimentary hands-on guidance before and after a sale. It doesn't make a difference if you have always wanted to travel full time on a trawler, or you're merely interested in spending weekend time with your relatives on a motor yacht, an abundance of schooling is available.
Mike Dickens, the author, is a live aboard boat owner and owner/Broker of Paradise Yachts in Florida USA. 904/556-9431.
Visit the Paradise Yachts website to view our selection of Used Trawlers, Used Motor Yachts, and Used Sailboats for Sale
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