If there's a structure where you can pass costs/risk onto another entity or event the city then it's a great idea.

1. Repair the boats and sell them to a charity which you run.
2. The city pays your charity a minimal fee to manage and store the boats, and take disadvantaged children sailing
3. The money you get from this goes to a separate entity where you can renovate and sell boats on contract, at your own pace.

That sorta thing

Nice idea, Nick. But we have this little thing called the RICO. So basically I could face federal prosecution for circumventing taxation and money laundering under RICO as well as hiding it all behind the guise of a non-profit organization.

An non-profit is basically a corporation with officers and a business plan, that makes money, but it is backed up by a board of trustees that decides how to spend the money.

So with your idea I go to jail for organized crime, and with the governments way I end up shooting 6 old guys who won't pay me.

So as I said, I just have to work on this a bit.

Well, at some point you have to pay yourself a salary and declare income. I was thinking between #2 ~ #3

It was more the idea that they give your card to their customers when they first arrange for marina space, or with whatever mailers they might send.

That way the debtors are calling you, not the marina, when their salad days doing coke off harlots' hip bones come to a close.

I'll figure it out, and I have an attorney, an engineer, a retired army medical officer and a semi-pro golfer working on this with me. We'll come up with something.

I have an attorney, an engineer, a retired army medical officer and a semi-pro golfer working on this with me.

Sounds like a sitcom!

My thoughts exactly; only they solve crimes ...

...like : Who droped the soap ?

Actually they will be officers in the corporation and the board of directors.

I keep reading the title as "Zoomie's scare of the week"

I keep expecting to read about Zoomie's sexual conquest... Then I remembered... It's Zoomie. Then it all makes sense why there is no mention of tang here.

but lots of crap about boats

but lots of crap about boats

I don't even swim, let alone sail.

Then you don't know the joy of riding the wind and hearing your heart beat in time with the waves against the hull.

Then you don't know the joy of riding the wind and hearing your heart beat in time with the waves against the hull.

No, but I do know the joy of riding a woman and feeling her pulse through her vaginal walls as I penetrate her with my penis. I'm sure sailing is awesome, too.

Yeah but you don't have to throw the boat out when you're done. Or bury it in the desert.

Touche'. Good show, old cock. Good show.

My (hopefully) score for THIS week:

http://annapolis.craigslist.org/boa/1359473015.html

See that picture reminds me how terrifying I think it is to climb out of a boat when it's out of the water like that...that blind step over onto the ladder leaning against the hull.

Yeah I don't like getting in and out of a boat on stands either. Gravity and pressure against the hull just don't seem very trustworthy. One of those pads slips and it's going down and rolling over on you like a fat girl in the dark.

I remember the manfrog experience. One slip...

Yeah I don't like getting in and out of a boat on stands either. Gravity and pressure against the hull just don't seem very trustworthy. One of those pads slips and it's going down and rolling over on you like a fat girl in the dark.

Seriously. In the early 90s, my uncle did an almost complete rebuild on a 1912 Fife in a shed in Southampton. He and a friend who was helping him lived in the boat while fixing it on stands for over a year. We visited him a few times and going up or down that ladder used to scare the fuck out of me, although I never admitted it cuz I didn't wanna seem like a pansy.

I have nothing to add to this discussion other than the fact I was born in Southampton!

I remember the manfrog experience. One slip...

Dude, I totally ruined the best pair of hiking pants in that fall. Cather Marine is a pool of petroleum sludge with six inches of nasty Potomac on top. Luckily the Barmah you brought me didn't go under.

hahahaha

That rocks. And a Mitubishi would have made it in less time.

Any endeavor of merit should begin with, "Please God, help me!"

Personally, I would have chosen a 1988 Honda Accord.

Top Gear did it with a Toyota Hilux.

Were it me, I'd have chosen Monster Truck.

Hiluxes are the shit.

The older ones are.

Delicas, bitches.

Go anywhere, on anything.

You mean it floats ?