If you were given a choice between a fancy boat or a fancy car, which would you pick? You can't sell either.
I'm not sure yet about my answer
I'm not sure yet about my answer
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.
Oh like if I had to choose one or the other of course I'm picking boat. Style points, way more fun, going out on the water, hell yeah
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.
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.
A friend of mine lived on his boat with his girlfriend and their cat. Moored in Seattle. Cost him a third of my rent for moorage + showers + wifi + hookups.
You can modify them however you like with your own funds!
And Yep fancy RV and fancy houseboat counts
ok I will take car then which in my case would be a decked out 4 wheel drive sportsmobile. Im tempted to choose a super yacht but even for free I likely could not afford to upkeep it. You would need to pay a crew. Anything small enough boat wise to afford and I would rather have the sportsmobile.
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
With a fancy boat you can give a SCOTUS judge a luxury vacation and then get a billion dollar ruling in your favor.
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.
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.
I'd pick the best hybrid car I could find and wire it into my house as a backup generator. Then I'd keep driving my 20-year-old car.
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.
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.
Car. No question. I live nowhere near any body of water large enough for a boat, and I get seasick like something else.
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.
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
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.
Can the car be amphibious? I always thought thise were cool.
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