Often these boaters are novice anglers and they are under the same learning curve as your “teenager”, though they are adults. Logic often does not play into adults when they are inexperienced and the result becomes an I should have known better comment. When brakes squeal our truck, FIX THEM! As it wont get cheaper to run them till they grind. You dont have the money or time now, so how will you have five to ten times as much money and time when the non maintenance causes failure. Seems pretty simple, though we are all guilty in some new hobby or activity we take up. The best options to go into it realizing I dont know anything about this and knowing you will have added costs because of the learning curve.
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