I don't have the money to maintain either
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Lol I feel that. You don’t want a boat, you want a friend with a boat
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You now what "boat" stands for, right Hank? Stands for "Fix it again, Tony".
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I would much rather go broke trying to maintain a boat, I could sail around in style until it sank under me, Jack Sparrow-style. Cars just run out of gas or oil or coolant or whatever- no style there.
Plus imagine the cool stories you can tell your friends about that one time an Orca took out your amazing sail boat.
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I gave the 70th upvote, RIP 69 upvotes o7
can the boat be a houseboat and conversley can the car be an RV?
This is important; if I live on the houseboat then that seems like an obvious answer but if I can't, I'll get far more use out of a car. A boat is just a logistics problem unless it's where I live.
On the other hand, it seems like it would be much easier, when necessary, to hook an RV up to electrical, water, and sewer services, as compared to a houseboat. I guess you could have a deionized water pump, but those are super slow, like on the order of a tablespoon an hour slow. And, anyway, I suspect it's not kosher to just poop off the railing.
I figure that there are maintenance and utility hookups for boats, just like there are for RVs. After all, plenty of boats cannot be reasonably removed from the water.
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Fancy car, it's not even close.
Simply storing and maintaining a whole boat is way more of a logistical nightmare than I ever want to deal with for a supposed "leisure" activity. And that's before we get into the cost.
chilling on a boat in the middle of the ocean sounds pretty cozy to me, you can't get that same peace and quiet on a road
Yeah you might get in trouble chilling on a boat in the middle of the road.
Not as much trouble as you'd get in chilling in a car in the middle of the ocean.
With a fancy boat you can give a SCOTUS judge a luxury vacation and then get a billion dollar ruling in your favor.
We know it works for Clarence Thomas at least
If it's a fancy and large enough yacht, you can live on it, and offer free accommodations to people who might actually know anything about how to operate and maintain it. Rent out any excess rooms you have to get the money you need to operate things.
Well, I think I just reinvented cruises.
Or house boats
100% the car.
You can get a fancy and expensive car that is still relatively reliable and affordable to maintain. You can park the fanciest car in a relatively affordable parking space. At which point you can always rent it out for weddings or events, drive it yourself, earn a little extra.
A fancy boat is in an entirely different league when it comes to maintenance and mooring costs. Especially if it's on salt water.
Worst case scenario: the car rots in a garage.
Worst case scenario: the boats bankrupts you.
Can a fancy car include a super nice, kitted-out campervan?
I'll put it in my backyard and rent it out. Probably get $600/mo for it in my city.
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I'd take the car if there wasn't a large sum of money included. I've owned boats most of my life and believe me they cost a lot of money to keep in a slip and maintain each year. Even a "normal" boat will cost you $5k - $10k a year to maintain. A car you just need a secure covered place to keep it.
Slips for luxury boats can run several thousand dollars a month to rent. Add in 10% of the price of the boat per year to just keep it floating and in working order.
Yeah, if you consider operating costs and such, I wouldn't want to insure a fancy car either. I would just abandon either of them and hope there's no paper trail leading back to me.
In the spirit of the question, though, I would take the boat. I already have a car and it doesn't float.
“The two best days in a boat owner’s life are the day he buys his boat and the day he sells it”
I thought it was the second best day in a boat owners life is the day he bought his boat and the best day is the day he sells his boat.
If it's a given that I have enough money to afford maintenance and insurance, I'd go with fancy car. At first I thought I'd go with the boat, since I live near a couple of busy bodies of water, but I'm not sure I'd want to go through the hassle of setting up a business with just one boat.
Boat. Especially if it's one that can stay in international waters indefinitely.
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Well, they can cause boats to be very in the water indefinitely
If it's a houseboat, then the boat. Otherwise I'll get more use out of the car.
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Car. No question. I live nowhere near any body of water large enough for a boat, and I get seasick like something else.
Fancy as in luxuriously over the top, or just expensive?
A good expensive car would probably last a while and cut down on maintenance costs while a good expensive boat would still have huge costs associated with it. Unless the car is some one-of-a-kind one-timer that you can't even take out of the garage, in which case... I'll stick with my 20-year old vw tyvm 😁
It'd be nice to have a boat now in summer tho. Maybe I can't sell it but you never said anything about renting
Car for sure. I don't live near water, I don't have much use for a boat.
See with a boat that's fancy, it's probably going to be huge like one of those superliners the rich oligarchs have. Where if you have an expensive chair, it's still going to be fundamentally a chair, so then if it's more comfortable it's still pretty small.
Car. Lower maintenance. I can more easily store it too
If I can't sell it, a boat serves me no real purpose. And I don't currently own a car of my own and only have a bike. So I will get a car.
B O A T
Doesn't need to be posh, though.
Can the car be amphibious? I always thought thise were cool.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amphicar-stuttgart-2005.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Honestly probably the car
I would def go with a car, I mean I would be able to travel almost everywhere. Although if I wouldn't have to care about its costs I would choose the boat, I def would try to profit over it somehow, like renting or something. Raise an extra money lol
Travel almost everywhere? Disregarding places a car isn't allowed/able to be and anything not on Earth, I'm assuming you're willing to fork out for shipping your car across the oceans to reach other continents?
I'd like an old school pirate ship
I'd get a fancy car because I can use it daily and don't have one currently but boat I could only use every once in a while and only in the summer.
I would choose the boat then I could turn it into a floating garden.
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