Wrong on both scores!

When I moved here, I thought with all this water I would get some boating and fishing in.

I was wrong on both ideas.

First, I bought a boat, a nice little boat, 17 foot long, as I recall. Paid $2,000 for it.

I had been told that the two days that stand out are the day you purchase a boat and the day you sell it.

The only boat I had ever used before was a rowboat, a fishing vessel rented by several...