Paint

I am thinking I opened a very odd magazine when the inside cover ad was somebody crowing about how THEIR gallon of paint - at $190 - was WAY cheaper than their competition ($250 per).

I know paint has gotten expensive (I think we have thousands of dollars of it in our "paint can repository" downstairs in the basement that stands as a mute attestation to my Sainted wife's enthusiasm for changing room colors).

So I took a closer look at the offending ad. Ah! It wasn't merely paint, it was "dual-biocide ablative antifouling" paint. THAT explained everything...I guess.

Yachting magazines - where dreams meet up with the ugly truth: boats are holes in the water you throw money into.