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In a gale you have two outcomes and both are bad: the line holds and tears out the fitting, or it parts and the boat is loose. Neither is noticed until it has happened.
Costs today: Egenandel 20 000 kr, og båten kan bli totalskadet
Every autumn you have to choose: let the boat drain through the winter, or seal it. Choose drainage and the opening stands open to everything else too, for six months unattended.
Costs today: Frostsprengt motor: 60 000 kr og oppover
The mast collar is the one seal aboard that moves every hour you are at sea. The trade has stopped treating it as a problem and started treating it as an annual expense.
Costs today: Ny krage hvert til annethvert år, pluss dekksråte når den svikter
The cover carries the snow right up until it does not, and that happens at night in February with nobody on the dock. By then the cover is not the thing you are worried about.
Costs today: Presenning, stativ og det som lå under: 15 000–90 000 kr
The water you just pumped out runs back the moment the pump stops. Everyone aboard knows it, and everyone has got used to pumping the same water twice.
Costs today: Pumpa går dobbelt så mye og halverer levetiden
Cabinet catches need to be tight at sea and easy in harbour, and today you have to pick one. Pick tight and your guests fight every locker. Pick easy and half the galley is on the sole after the first big sea.
Costs today: 12–25 låser i en båt — og servicebesøket når de rives ut
The ROV has vision right up until it needs to hold station, which is exactly when the job requires it. Then you sit in brown water and wait, with the vessel on day rate.
Costs today: Fartøysdøgn: 250 000 kr og oppover
In winter you choose between feeling the bite and feeling your fingers. Everyone who fishes in January has pulled off a glove, and everyone has lost fish doing it.
Costs today: Timene du faktisk klarer å stå ute
The sinker fouls, and you lose the whole rig to get the line back. Hooks, trace and bait go down with it, every single time.
Costs today: 150–400 kr per bunnfast, flere ganger per tur
Below freezing the guides ice up in minutes, and you stand there knocking the rod instead of fishing. It is the whole reason people go in early.
Costs today: Halve fisketiden, og stanga når du banker for hardt
A rope that has been overloaded looks exactly like one that has not. You never learn which one you are holding until it parts, and by then you are not holding it.
Costs today: Personskade — dette er den ene her som handler om liv
The bait smells for the first hour and the pot soaks for a day. The rest of the set you fish with a box that no longer tells anything it is there.
Costs today: Mesteparten av settet, hver gang
The sacrificial anode protects best the day you fit it and worse every day after. Protection falls away while you assume it is holding, until the prop tells you otherwise.
Costs today: Ny propell og drev: 35 000 kr
The boat follows the swell, the jig follows the boat, and the fish sees something no fish has seen before. In a seaway you are fishing against your own motion.
Costs today: Dagene sjøen er for dårlig til å prøve
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