I’m sick and tired of all these goats on all these boats
by Catherine LaineAugust 26th, 2006
In a meeting with the rest of the co-op yesterday evening, Bill convinced them to consider a different tack: goat farming (for the rapid creation of revenue) and building small fiberglass boats (could be an awesome business, but will take a while to get off the ground). There’s a lot of information gathering that needs to be done to determine if they could do the latter profitably, but in the meantime, goats.
What was the clincher? I’m not exactly sure as I didn’t attend this meeting, but it might have been the extra $5000-$7000 of import duties, cruelly high tariffs or other charges that they would have to pay if bringing in a boat from say Miami. The economic bounty of fishing was simply not certain enough for them to be willing to basically throw away that kind of money. They figured that there were far better ways to use In Kind’s donations. I would have to agree.
(Man, I can’t wait to see “Snakes on A Plane” when we get home.)
