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Cap'n Slappy · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:29 am Post subject: Paddle Wheeler

I wonder what's the biggest boat I can put on Lake Gaston? I'm thinking about buying a paddle wheeler and turning it into a floating restaurant.

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Nighthawk · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:33 am Post subject:

That'd be pretty awesome to see floating around the lake.

Maybe you could put a casino in it. International waters in the middle? Smile

Cap'n Slappy · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:36 am Post subject:

I wish. Maybe I could declare it part of the Cherokee Indian reservation. Smile

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Cap'n Slappy · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:38 am Post subject:

Here's a link.

http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1485663/0/
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Nighthawk · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:48 am Post subject:

If I remember correctly, those thing have a very shallow draft. I don't see why it couldn't float in the lake with no problem, just might be difficult and expensive getting it to the lake.

doomster · General Secretary Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 2598

Yeah, NH is correct, it'd probably be more expensive to transport it here than the actual cost of the boat. As long as you stayed in a main body of water, it'd make it.....I wouldn't go pulling in any shallow coves.

Cap'n Slappy · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:42 pm Post subject:

I just wonder could I make it more than a seasonal thing. 325,000 is a lot to put in a boat.
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doomster · General Secretary Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 2598

Three and a quarter.....thats cheap in today's times.....LOL! A floating Pub would be kool, think of it vs. building one on land!

Cap'n Slappy · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject:

Still looking at the permits doomster.
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THE CURE · Chief Of Staff Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 3737

The bible thumpers will never let you have a floating bar on the lake.
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doomster · General Secretary Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 2598

Cap'n Slappy · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:19 pm Post subject:

If things go right you might just get that opportunity doomster.
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doomster · General Secretary Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 2598

It'd be sweet, let me know if you need a part time bartender. With all the drunks up there, all I'd just need to work 1-2 evenings......LMAO!!!

Cap'n Slappy · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject:

Somehow I think you might drink up all my profits. Very Happy

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Kestrel · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject:

But it'll be safer. The drunks would drown before they make it to their car.

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