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Originally Posted by Hitch
Actually, FWIW, I grew up on boats.
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That's great news, which I believe I have seen you mention once before elsewhere in these forums. But I am surprised if that in that environment you did not gain (or have perhaps since lost) a tolerance for people offering solutions based on experience of what is widely used in that industry (both pleasure and commercial) - even if they are solutions based on pennies rather than tens of dollars.
And any loss of strength of independence giving resilience to the views of others which they self determine as being a challenge to their own rather than as being an alternative would be a bit surprising. Unusual to find such in the pleasure boating community - even the often terse pleasure boating forums, and marina discussions are otherwise swimming with sharing of information and ideas backed up with described experience and humor without others revealing their lack of experience by scoffing or feeling threatened. I know that also applies in the US but I won't expand on that unless asked, someone is sure to take offence or start throwing terms around such as "blowhard".