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Part 1: Getting Started in Boating
cost to keep your rig happy. If you’ll be storing it in a slip or at a high-and-dry marina
(where the boats are lifted out and stored on racks, usually inside a large building), those
monthly fees have to be included. If you’re a powerboater or a sailboater with auxiliary
power, you’ll need to budget for regular oil changes (with four-stroke and diesel) and
tune-ups.
Boats that are stored in saltwater need anti-fouling paint every year or two, and sailboat
rigging and sails have to be maintained or replaced as they wear. For a fairly new powerboat
20 feet long, stored on a trailer at your home, these costs can be as little as $15 per
foot, per year—i.e., around $300. For larger and/or older boats stored at a marina, they
can run to $200 per foot per year and more.
Boat Bytes
Englishman Izaak Walton
wrote The Complete
Angler, the first widely read
book on recreational fishing,
in 1653. It’s a celebration
of angling, conservation,
and the pastoral lifestyle, and
has made Walton the patron
saint of anglers everywhere.
If the Sloop Fits, Buy It
The trick to buying a boat that’s right for you is to get a
rig that has enough space for everybody you’d normally
bring aboard, and one that fits the “mission” you and
your crew envision.
If you want silence and communion with nature, you’re
probably going to be sailors, or perhaps paddlers of
your own canoes. If you want the thrill of mile-aminute
speeds, big-engined muscle boats may be for
you. If you have budding Izaak Waltons in the family, a
fishing boat will do the trick, while if you like boats so
well you want to live aboard, a trawler or houseboat
may be in your future.
What to Call the Pointy End (and the Rest of a Boat)
Before delving into what type of boat you want, you need to learn a bit of “boater-ese”—
the language of boaters. (Cursing doesn’t count.) You’ll see some of the basic definitions
in the following figure. You’ll find more definitions scattered throughout the coming
chapters as “Boater-ese” margin notes. Once you learn the lingo, you’ll sound like an old
salt when you talk about boats!
The following two figures show you the various parts of the boat. (Sailboats have their
own terminology, which we’ll discuss in Part 7, “Sailing, Sailing ….” And you’ll find many
added terms in Appendix A, “Glossary.”)