{"id":8848,"date":"2015-03-21T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T18:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8848"},"modified":"2015-03-20T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T23:09:59","slug":"boats-i-am-not-going-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8848","title":{"rendered":"Boats I am not going to buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauticat38.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8849\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauticat38-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"nauticat38\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauticat38-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauticat38-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauticat38.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yachtworld.com\/boats\/1984\/Nauticat-38-2786688\/WA\/United-States#.VQylnGTF9hh\" target=\"_blank\">1984 Nauticat 38<\/a>. I&#8217;d like to buy it. Its only $98,000. I could probably <em>afford<\/em> that. Of course that&#8217;s USD, so at the current rate of exchange that&#8217;s&#8230; let&#8217;s see&#8230; $123,000. Oh and there&#8217;s GST, so that&#8217;s, ummm, $129,000. (Thank god I don&#8217;t have to pay BC&#8217;s PST of another 7%.) And because it&#8217;s of\u00a0Finnish manufacture, there would be duty of around 9.5%, so that makes&#8230; let&#8217;s see&#8230; roughly $135,000 plus the GST, carry the four, round a little up, round a little down&#8230; Oh. Ya. $141,000.<\/p>\n<p>So yah, not so much. I think I am not looking on the US sites anymore. Too depressing&#8230; But it was pretty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8851\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti1-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"nauti1\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8852\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti2-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"nauti2\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti2-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti2.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8850\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti-3-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"nauti 3\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti-3-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti-3-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nauti-3.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a 1984 Nauticat 38. I&#8217;d like to buy it. Its only $98,000. I could probably afford that. Of course that&#8217;s USD, so at the current rate of exchange that&#8217;s&#8230; let&#8217;s see&#8230; $123,000. Oh and there&#8217;s GST, so that&#8217;s, ummm, $129,000. (Thank god I don&#8217;t have to pay BC&#8217;s PST of another 7%.) And because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}