Question about boats

Some of us have one boat they boat for everything.
Some of us havE a whole harem of boats ( but usually only use 1 or 2 ).

Anybody care to weigh in on how many boats they use and why they have som many/few???

I am just curious and bored.

And if your going southeast do you bring your play boat or your creeker??

Know how many boats a boater needs Aaron?

At least one more!

Some have the means and desire to cater to the "just one more boat" desire, and do so without selling their previous boat thus accumulating a quiver full of boats. And since boat makers make a new boat every season or so, those catering to that desire for just one more boat are tempted every season to have the new latest and greatest boat. And again it goes back to a combination of having the means and the desire.

I can answer your question indirectly. As a father, I would like my daughter to have two: one to play anything, and one that can paddle anything. For me, that's the long and the short of it or the short and the long of it.

I own 6 boats (7 if you count a duckie). I have two long boats, because one is an old school antique and the other is a modern day classic. BTW nothing is better than long boating I think. Two creek boats, because you never know when you're gonna break one. Two play boats because.....well.....Why do I own two play boats? Oh I know.

My name is Raymond and I'm an addict.

That's it!

P.S. Southeast trip in Summer = playboat/long boat Southeast in Winter = creekboat/long boat
There's never a bad time to long boat

have about 25 boats......I still don't have a creek boat.

I have a bunch, but also paddle a bunch, including boats that I have had for over 10 years, some of which are having a "second coming" in new designs. I have favorites, but there is also the "golf bag" concept, to have certain boats for certain "holes". I am actually paring it down to a favorite long boat (Stinger, for which I vowed to paddle it more often), Seven-0 (I will wear the hull to paper before I get rid of it, then grovel those I have sold others to to replace it), S-8 (nothing throws impressive like a squirty long play boat), Large Karnali (the Volvo of boats, which will bomb through anything gracefully), and my large Varun (best river play boat I have ever had). If you told me I was going to have to live in a small box and could only have one boat, it would probably be a Seven-0.

There, that covers it. So then why am I up to 31 boats in the barn?

30 boats.
3 wildwater boats in various stages of bashed.
One slalom C-1
1 Texas Water Safari tandem
One adventure tandem.
4 Racing Ultradistance boats.
3 composite slalom racing boats
and various other tupperwares.
Bilbo will have 32 boats as soon as I return his creek boat- making him the master boat hoarder.

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But than he has never talked with an obsessed, addicted Kayaker----

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a pure surf boat is fun to add to the arsenal, may I suggest the fluid element (very fun boat, but also very different to paddle)

I started to tell hime abojut the bats but he'd see them soon enough... this is bat country