The Float-Up Bar/Restaurant Shooter

Sounds like a massive pain in the ass. I would only want one if I could also afford to hire someone to do all that shit for me.

I think that’s the low end, but not too far off.

What I’ve come to really appreciate about mass shootings lately is that they are truly an American phenomenon. All races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations and wealth classes engage in mass shootings. In no other country are mass shootings so common, well certainly no other first world country, so it’s a distinctly American past time (unlike baseball). Straight people like killing a bunch of innocent people for no particular reason, but sometimes homosexuals engage in this sport as well

… and no one thinks much about it, well certainly not enough to pass any guns laws to.at least slow it down.

Like I said - that was at least 15-20 yrs ago. Just pretty impressive, tho, the amount of $$$ a fancy fishing rig on a trailer can represent.

That’s just the engine(s). So, yes. You can put a lot of money into a boat. As others have pointed out, used boats in the 18-22 range can be much more reasonable.

Back in the day, there were boat Repo guys who also worked with the insurance companies. They would fly over areas where the boat may have been sunk with a type of radar. If they found a boat, they would don SCUBA gear and head down to the wreck.

The first thing they’d look for is to see if the high-end ( aftermarket? ) equipment which had been installed on the boat at point of sale was still there… of if it had been stripped clean so the items could be sold at ‘Flea Markets’ etc.

A stripped clean boat meant no insurance pay out… foreclosure/repo with no equity… and Bankruptcy. I saw it a lot way back when.

Of course if I was a pro boat thief, I might well steal the boat, strip the portable valuables, then sink the remaining hulk in an effort to destroy the evidence. Or at least muddy the waters (heh :wink: ) about fingerprints, fibers, etc. that might be recoverable from a boat abandoned in a marina versus sunk.

Next, I’ll get you to drink boat drinks and say “Arrrr…!” :grin:

I have personally wasted away at the Margaritaville in Hollywood FL. Within sight of various boats that might profitably be stolen & stripped.

Does that count? :grin:

Ask the parrot on your shoulder…