If you have worked hard all of your life and have plenty of time and cash, why not?
if you wanted a boat of equivalent value for the same tow and caravan money, have quick look at what you'd get:
https://www.boatsales.com.au/boats/results/?q=((Service%3D%5Bboatsales%5D%26BoatType%3D%5BPower%5D)%26Price%3Drange%5B340000..360000%5D)Which would you choose?
Years ago, I had my old 45 ft motor catamaran on a marina berth under Gladesville Bridge in Sydney, when this lovely sixty footer tied up a few days earlier. An older guy was hosing and scrubbing the decks. I asked if it was his boat and he replied in the affirmative. I said "You must have worked hard to deserve a boat like this."
He teared up and said "All me life".
I don't have quid myself, but I am less than pleased with people who assume that wealth in someone else didn't come from hard work. Most of the time it does. Or that somehow they are fools for spending it.
On another day, the marina guys were taking me out to my boat which was on a more affordable swing mooring. We passed the most gorgeous seventy footer parked up in its newly acquired berth. I asked the boat pilot: "What does that bloke do for a living?'. He answered: "Buggered if I know, but it looks like he's bloody good at it." Nuff said.
For me, spending a year touring around in a Dodge Ram with a 3 axle Kedron behind it would be, well, very nice. Unfortunately, poverty prevents. But to assume that people who do are fools or undeserving is a wee bit unkind.
