The shooting Times advert above reminded of a recent incident as I managed to find time to take a day off work to join a shoot party .
The game keeper approached me and suggested my low profile car wouldn't make it round the estates tracks , so I started to follow the only totty in sight towards the beaters wagon
I was soon stopped and directed to a chauffeur driven brand new Range Rover .
Between drives I had lots of time to cover most topics with the owner.....
The £80 000 Range Rover was his 'work horse' bought just for shooting as he didnt want to get his best cars mucky
He didnt use his cars much anyway as he owns two aeroplanes and sometimes just flys round in circles for a buzz.
He has already booked over 30 days shooting and just a few weeks into the season he has already spent over £30 000
What has this got to do with a boating forum, well of course I managed to direct the conversation away from shooting, flying and spending obscene amounts of money on pleasure and onto boating
No surprise to learn he had previously owned a boat, a little disappointed it was only an F33 but its a good boat and well known, perhaps he was previously a howards way fan or something.
Anyway the point of the post if you haven't already guessed it
when I asked him if would ever buy a boat again the reply came
"Oh no , boating is a real money pit"![]()
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