Thought I might give you the latest on the boat saga. Last week DH told me the boat still hadn't been repaired and he had written a letter of complaint to the boat repair person- it has been in the repair yard for four months!!
We haven't spoken about it much as you know I wasn't keen on his purchasing it in the first place, so it has been a sore subject. He had a good moan about it (something he rarely does) and said he had paid all that money out and winter is here so it will be too cold to take it out even when it is repaired. He seemed to be making out it was all the repairer's fault that his money is going to waste- I told him (I hope quite tactfully) that yes, the repairer should have got on with it but also he couldn't blame the repairer for the fault- maybe he should have gone back to the guy who sold it to him?
I'm not sure DH has learned the lesson, though- now he says he will repair it himself, although he has no time in which to do that or any experience of boats.
I even felt sorry for DH- he is such a pushover, should I feel sorry or angry that he threw that money away?
I would add that no money of mine was involved in the expense of this thing- but I do feel the best thing to do with this boat is to cast it adrift and hope it hits an ice-berg. Cue... music from Titanic and get out your tissues!