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wotan1 said:
Ah, boats. I was cured of the wooden boat disease very early in my boating career.

Really the only way around it is to have obscene amounts of money and pay someone else to do the work for you. Then the boat is too big and complicated to operate you have to also hire a crew to run it for you.

A couple years ago Seattle was a visited by a massively tall sailboat. I read up on it and the owner spent something like $6 million just on appearance upgrades. Fancy paint job, interior remodeling stuff like that. You know those are only good for a couple years and you have to do them all over again. And that did not pay for the crew.

It does not stop if you do not use it. Unless you have somethitng small enough to trailer and park in a garage you have to pay moorage. The only way out of that is to put it on blocks into dry storage but that costs more than moorage.
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I think there’s a famous Admiral Ackbar quote about boat ownership….
 
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You think photography is expensive try owning a boat. For a 40 ft boat you have to keep it in the water. That means moorage which in our area iI think is roughly a grand a month. You have to haul it out and work on the bottom once a year if you are lucky you can get the bottom work done in a couple days otherwise you have to go into a cradle and pay a very high daily rate. Heaven help you have to fix something parts cost 5 times what an equivalent part would be on land. Plus marine labor costs.

There is an argument that migh work. Photography is cheaper than boat ownership.
 
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wotan1 said:
You think photography is expensive try owning a boat. For a 40 ft boat you have to keep it in the water. That means moorage which in our area iI think is roughly a grand a month. You have to haul it out and work on the bottom once a year if you are lucky you can get the bottom work done in a couple days otherwise you have to go into a cradle and pay a very high daily rate. Heaven help you have to fix something parts cost 5 times what an equivalent part would be on land. Plus marine labor costs.

There is an argument that migh work. Photography is cheaper than boat ownership.
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Hopefully lens ownership has more days of joy than boat ownership as the joke goes :)
 
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realspeed said:
Having looked at the prices above what members in the USA can afford and what US in the UK can afford as "hobby" photographers, there is no way could we afford to pay those prices, even converted from Dollars to Pounds. For professionals they might seem reasonable, but at least well out of my price bracket.
So I am wondering if the average person as a hobby photographer actually afford/ pay those prices in the USA? just curious
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It's mostly older generations or people in a position of privilege who are able to afford expensive camera gear or travel. Somebody mentioned priorities. My priority right now is my young family, my job, and bills, so expensive gear is pretty low on the priority list at the moment. With that being said, compared to my peers, and not to mention many others around the world, I'm in a position of privilege even with my 'modest' D500 and 200-500.
 
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Turberticus said:
It's mostly older generations or people in a position of privilege who are able to afford expensive camera gear or travel. Somebody mentioned priorities. My priority right now is my young family, my job, and bills, so expensive gear is pretty low on the priority list at the moment. With that being said, compared to my peers, and not to mention many others around the world, I'm in a position of privilege even with my 'modest' D500 and 200-500.
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Yep life can take all kinds of twists and turns and I am definitely in the older generation category that got lucky. Personally, would trade everything I accumulated to be back at the age you are! And you are way ahead of me since I didn't take up photography until I retired. So enjoy what you have and your young family, unfortunately time passes quickly and it is impossible to know how things will turn out.
 
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