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YSaC, Vol. 1753: Ship of fool

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1984 searay sevill bow rider for sale new carpets floors solid new outdrive turnkey ready for some fishing $1300 or trade welcome. Question ##########

Avast ye lubbers! Quake in fear as ye prepare to be boarded from me fine craft! Arr! I shall make ye walk the..

You know what? Talk Like a Pirate Day isn’t until the 19th, and I don’t think this tub will actually last that long. And that’s if you just leave it in the driveway. If you actually put it in the same time zone as a body of water, I’m pretty sure it would actively explode.

Thanks for the post, Terrance!

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29 responses to “YSaC, Vol. 1753: Ship of fool”

  1. CapnMac Avatar
    CapnMac

    “New carpets”–you use this word, but I do not think you know what it means.

    The way they change colors from the first picture to the last is interesting. Not enough to overcome the sad state of the rest of this, this, watercraft.

    I will surmise that “floors solid” is not a reference to the condition of the key portions of the boats’ hull framing.

    Props, though to Sparky, there’s probably $1300 in repairs needed, so it’s nice of him to offer that with the boat.

    Sadly, Spark’ has not sprung for a camping top for this thing, or a great chorus of “We all live in a pale ecru submarine” could ensue. This, along with needing “hands across the water” to recover the erstwhile passengers after launching.

    Oh well, sand boxes must have their start somewhere.

  2. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    Why does Sparky include so many photos of fail? He or she would have been better off just posting one or two, and leave the rest up to our fertile imaginations.

    Oh, Hammy and Jazzy, Punchity Punch Punch!

    Good Morning, Pie Rats!

    1. MissMommyNiceNice Avatar
      MissMommyNiceNice

      Pie Rats is the name of my failed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle spin-off.

  3. MissMommyNiceNice Avatar
    MissMommyNiceNice

    Will the nest of free range gerberts be able to survive at sea? Will they bite my arse if I sit on their home?

  4. Ralph Avatar
    Ralph

    “…turnkey ready for some fishing….”

    Candygram….

    Actually, I think I’ll use a grill.

  5. Dave and Ferret Tribe Avatar
    Dave and Ferret Tribe

    One thing about the boat is turnkey. Instead of having several crew members speak pass phrases, you just turn the key to initiate self-destruct.

  6. C"From Behind.....Suddenly"J Avatar
    C”From Behind…..Suddenly”J

    Yep, seaworthy is definitely the word I’d use for this.

    Seaworthy…right up to the point the hull actually, you know, touches the water and the entire thing sinks to the bottom of the lake.

  7. HamCan Avatar
    HamCan

    Wow! What a piece of ship!

  8. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    OT — LOOK! The ad for my book — I mean, my friend’s book — Is up! W00t! Now we sit back and rake in the moola.

  9. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    Looking at photos 2, 3, and 4, there’s a chunk of change in recycling there.

  10. One Moving Violation Avatar
    One Moving Violation

    This would make great structure for fish to live around, but I’m not sure it would make it to the middle of the lake.

    1. ratwoman Avatar
      ratwoman

      Oh, it would make it to the middle of the lake, eventually. Just not at the surface.

  11. Ralph Avatar
    Ralph

    [Corey] A new outdrive for this is $4000+, so I suspect “new” means “replaced 20 years ago after drunkenly destroying the old one on a rock.”

    Unless it’s a “solid new outdrive” which might be usable as a spare anchor. [/Corey]

    1. capnmac Avatar
      capnmac

      Well, it was probably new to Sparky, maybe not so much new in the scrapyard where it was found/bodged.

      Given that Spark’ misspelt “Seville” (or the “e” was the only letter to successfully jailbreak), he (presumably) may have only replaced the outdrive itself. Which could be a serious problem as that 3.0l 140hp mercruiser has had a zillion outdrives fitted to it, and a body has to know exactly (not approximately) which one to use. Starting up the ol’ engine and having bits fly all over the lake will not win many friends.

  12. Terrance Avatar
    Terrance

    The turnkey killed me. I was looking for a boat and the turnkey keyword brought this up….

    “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

    1. Demon Duck of Doom Avatar
      Demon Duck of Doom

      I’m pretty sure they meant “turkey”.

  13. James Avatar
    James

    Is the title a reference to The Doors song Ship of Fools, John Cale’s Ship of Fools, or the idiom… The possibilities are “endless”.

    P.S. (Posthumous Scriptorium?)
    Talk about Bust Out Another Thousand… Get it I made a quip. I am officially a Commenter on a Snarky blog.

    1. camille Avatar
      camille

      Or, perhaps, the allegory from Plato, the Hieronymus Bosch Painting, or the Katherine Anne Porter novel (and movie), all of which somewhat pre-date both songs.

    2. Windrose Avatar
      Windrose

      The Snark is strong in this one.

      I find you lack of gravitar disturbing.

    3. camille Avatar
      camille

      Oh, and I didn’t mean to make this an exercise in competitive reference-spotting. Always great to have a new snarker! Carry on!

  14. SilvaNoir Avatar
    SilvaNoir

    Price Boat reduced

  15. limelolly Avatar
    limelolly

    Not such a bargain for the exciting opportunity to sing a rendition of Michael, Row Your Boat .

    1. capnmac Avatar
      capnmac

      More like “Michael, Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, make my boat float right NOW–the water is two feet high and rising!!” (apologies to J.Cash for the latter reference)

      1. nojazzhere Avatar
        nojazzhere

        “Your gonna need a bigger boat!”…..

        Sorry I’m late….my school district has decided YSaC isn’t educational enough…(sheesh!)

  16. jeanann Avatar
    jeanann

    Just… what? What the hell happened on that boat? How does it get like that?

    1. Windrose Avatar
      Windrose

      What happens in Craigslist stays in Craigslist. If we’re lucky. But if I had to guess, I’d say a pack of rabid Tasmanian Devils had a family reunion on the boat. And then things got ugly.

    2. CapnMac Avatar
      CapnMac

      “How does it get like that?”

      Well, a body goes and takes out a 3-4 grand note for a boat and trailer, and then does not spring to $100 worth of custom boat cover. Leave the boat out in the elements other than the 3, 4 times a year it gets hauled to the lake, and the elements take their toll.

      So, the vinyl on the seats cracks, the cloth fibers break down, the clear coats on the wood fail. Also, lease and litter start piling up, too. Which invites things which live in leaf clutter–most of which make little distinction between litter and boat. Also, dead leaves, grass clippings and the like become acidic as they get wet and decompose.

      That, and this is a 30 year old boat. Sparky has made the failure of too many who buy boats; owning a boat is bit like owning a horse, it’s a 7/365 deal. And the closer you get to salt water the more you have to do, too.

      This part an parcel f the adage that the two best days in a boat owner’s life are the day they buy the boat, and the day they sell same. Sadly, I don’t think Sparky is going to get much joy out of this.

  17. Grumpy Grammy Avatar
    Grumpy Grammy

    Dear Sparky; tearing up the old carpeting from your basement rec room and installing it on the floor of this “boat” does not pass the test as “new carpets.”

    You know, the more I look at it, the more I think this just might be my ex’s very old boat, which was new in about 1975 and never really cared for.

  18. mudslicker Avatar
    mudslicker

    It can always be used for this.

    Everybody get out your tetanus shots.

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