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	Name:	Jim120 -
	Subject:	Considering renting my boat to passengers/ riders
	Date:	3/20/2013 7:30:54 AM

I've been trying (not very hard, but I do think about it) to think up an acceptable way for several neighbors to share ownership of a boat (I'm not interested in becoming a captain, or otherwise hiring myself out along with the boat.) I think of it every time I float around our little slough and see the hundreds of thousands of idle dollars tied up to various docks, bobbing gently up and down on their way to obsolescence. Surely there must be a reasonable way for a small number of nearby households to share those costs without annoying the hell out of each other and coming to enmity, blows or litigation.

Over 50 years at the Lake have taught me a few lessons, though. My Dad and uncle used to co-rent their old Lake place from Russell. They were the best of friends -- used to attend almost every Auburn football game together for decades. Got along great. But my Dad was punctilious about maintenance -- we never went home from the Lake without everyting being back in its place. My uncle's attitude was considerably more casual. He wasn't irresponsible, just not quite as tightly wrapped about things. Every ski rope that wasn't coiled and replaced just so, every life preserver left loose in the boat, used to drive my Dad crazy. It didn't come close to ruining their friendship. But it didn't help, either.

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