..... There is always the option to lose the motor boat and go boating with a sailboat that has no engine and needs no gasoline. Sailboats as large as 17'-long by six or seven feet wide can sometimes be bought, used, for around one thousand dollars including a trailer and good quality sails. Sailing a sailboat with no secondary motor is very different than driving a motor boat capable to go 45-mph.
With the high price for gasoline, could be a good move to sell off the motor boat, and jibe into sailing. Left becalmed in a sailboat with NO wind ..... you get out the oars and start rowing or await a helpful motor boater to give you a tow, back home.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSj2bvKtDSQ .....
..... hey there ......
..... motor boater!
Actor Chris Farley (1964-1997) is sitting in a Canada made, CL-14' dinghy, which sometimes show up on Craigslist for a relatively low price because it's old or a fixer-upper or some other reason, and it weighs 240-lbs and can get rowed with oars should Chris remain becalmed with NO wind ...... so ...... row CHRIS, row-row-row that CL-14 and lose your God-damned drugs issue and lose some weight so's the boat will weigh MORE than you, plus the boat does not do drugs, but you do ....... or you DID do drugs ... in the past.
This CL-14' sailboat is a sturdy, well designed dinghy, made in Ontario, Canada and very capable for sailing on Lake Winnipesaukee with or without a secondary 2-hp pony motor and there's always a happy and helpful motor-boater around, out there, who will give you a tow back home when there is no wind.
All the Lake Winnipesaukee motor-boaters basically have nothing better to do and just drive around the big lake in big fast boats in big circles, using up that VERY expensive gasoline. Isn't this correct, all you motor-boaters! .....