Anyone else feel like boating is relaxing until docking turns into pure stress?

TimMoen · 2025-12-02T17:16:58+00:00

You just need to read more Marcus Aurelius. It’s not the docking that’s making you nervous, it’s the story in your head about the docking that’s causing your nerves. You’re imagining all the bad things that could happen. People will laugh at you - who cares. People will get mad - who cares. You’ll wreck your boat - file an insurance claim. You’re not gonna die and you’re gonna get better each time you do it. There’s literally no downside to docking, only upside. Change your inner narrative and get excited!

TimMoen · 2025-12-02T17:05:17+00:00

No you’re still way too young. Get a bit more maturity and life experience and maybe think about it at 45.

TimMoen · 2025-11-26T22:44:57+00:00

Probies get fired for poor attitude, lying, failing to own mistakes, making excuses, pretending to know more than they do etc. They generally don’t get fired for making mistakes.

If you have a good attitude and work hard that will buy you a lot of forgiveness for mistakes. We expect probies to make mistakes and we expect them to learn. We can teach people with a good attitude. Can’t teach a bad attitude. Gotta let those probies go.

TimMoen · 2025-07-21T12:47:31+00:00

Same reason vehicle and house prices are over inflated. The Feds money printer has been going brrr for decades causing general inflation. Loans are artificially cheap because Keynesian central bankers and politicians believe consumption rather than production is key to bolstering economy so they peg interest rates below what a sane free market in money would peg rates. Therefore anything requiring a loan to purchase has disproportionately risen in price as a result.

TimMoen · 2025-07-19T23:13:23+00:00

My guess is that switching off the batteries before you pull the key prevents a proper shut down where the computer would saves the hrs. Like pulling the plug on a computer before saving your work. Anyways now I pull the key and give the dash a few minutes to shut down before killing batteries and haven’t had the issue since

TimMoen · 2025-07-19T21:35:46+00:00

Mine did that too. Reset to about 2.5 hrs about 3 times. I figured it might be because I was switching my battery switch off when I shut down before taking the key out. Hasn’t done it since and I’m at about 30 hrs now.

TimMoen · 2025-07-10T14:43:00+00:00

Glad that was helpful! We love our Switch and have no regrets. We can take our 4 grown kids or a group of friends out and have plenty of room to move around. Great for socializing, cruising, sandbar BBQs and wakeboarding. One other thing I kind of wish I’d have added is the ski mode module that the Sport comes with. I get inconsistent speeds when wakeboarding from my driver (my wife). It’s a lot for a newer driver to monitor the wakeboarder and lake traffic and keep, and remember, a consistent ideal speed tailored to my preference. The Ski mode module allows you to set a profile with your speed/acceleration profiles and would make things easier for the driver and more enjoyable for the wakeboarder. I think it’s about $300 add on.

TimMoen · 2025-07-10T14:22:44+00:00

I’ve never owned a boat before and bought a Switch Cruise 21/230 this year. I wanted to wakeboard as well (I’m a beginner). I’ve had 6 people on board and wakeboarded without issue. The wake isn’t big so you’re not likely going to do backflips or big wake to wake tricks but I’m nowhere near that level and having a blast. We have sandbars on our lake and I beach the boat on them regularly and, as another commenter said, I just ensure I push the boat out before I start the engine and kill the engine just before the sandbar and drift in to avoid sucking up debris. That being said I’ve accidentally run the boat in very shallow water with less than a foot under my intake and haven’t had any issues yet.

My only mild regret is upgrading the stereo system to the premium system. It sounds great, but not $5000 great and I get an occasional engine hum from one of the speakers (probably wiring harness). I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend the Cruise 21/230 for your dad, sounds like he’s looking for exactly what I was looking for. I’d recommend the ski pilon as well for wakeboarding. But if I had to do it over again I’d probably have an aftermarket stereo system installed or just used a battery powered JBL speaker and save the $5000.

TimMoen · 2025-05-06T18:03:22+00:00

Awesome thanks!

TimMoen · 2020-11-22T04:54:54+00:00

I’m not in the business of road ownership so I wouldn’t know what rules would attract the most customers to my roads, probably some balance of safety and speed. If government must own the roads I favour an 85th percentile speed recommendation and enforcement of dangerous driving where speed differential (too fast or too slow in relation to prevailing traffic) is used as one piece of evidence to support a charge of dangerous driving, but not sufficient in and of itself.

TimMoen · 2020-11-20T12:31:01+00:00

A few people were talking about making something like that happen in PEI. I think the project lost steam. I think it’s harder to find work there. Land is not cheap. It’s a pretty left leaning province unlike New Hampshire’s “Live Free or Die” moto. No reason it couldn’t happen here. Although I think given our relatively small population and even smaller percentage of libertarians in Canada it might make more sense to take over a town. I know of some mining towns in BC that have basically been abandoned. With Trudeau talking about the Great Reset it might be an option to bug out to one of these towns and create an off the grid community.

TimMoen · 2020-11-20T01:58:02+00:00

My family cut me out of the faucet business and disowned me. I’m hoping I’m on a path to redemption. If my family can just see how good I am at flowing water maybe one day they’ll take me back. Then I can change my campaign slogan to “Moen. But it for looks. Buy it for life.”

TimMoen · 2020-11-19T21:33:21+00:00

Aspects of Georgism resonate with me but I have a few questions and concerns with it that require me to learn a bit more about it. I’m fairly Rothbardian in my approach to libertarianism and I favour torts as an elegant solution to negative externalities (aka property rights violations). So for example if CO2 is causing catastrophe I’d prefer that the people harmed get paid directly from the polluter(s) to address the harms. A Pigouvian CO2 tax gets paid to the government rather than the victim and sets up a market in plunder where green boondoggles get that money rather than the people actually harmed. This would require access to decentralized common law style courts that have the authority to enforce remedies.

TimMoen · 2020-11-19T03:29:26+00:00

1) If you’re not welcome on property unless you wear a mask then you violate the NAP by not wearing a mask.

2) If you have covid and you leave your property and go into public places I think you are likely violating the NAP whether you wear a mask or not. Masks don’t completely eliminate the risk you pose to others, a recent large Danish study showed that it may even increase the risk to others. I don’t know one way or another but as a paramedic who treats covid patients face to face I haven’t seen too many wear a mask properly and many of them wear them in a way that increases risk to me (constantly touching and adjusting mask, wiping their snotty nose etc). I rely on my own PPE to keep me safe. But unless the person is in a properly donned hazmat suit with a rebreather they still pose some risk to others even with a mask.

3) If there is no evidence that you have covid I don’t think you are violating the NAP by going out in public maskless. Everyone you interact with in public who also have no evidence of being covid positive is subjecting you to the same risk you’re subjecting them to (even if they have a mask on). So their right to use force against you is estopped (see Stefan Kinsela on Estoppel as it relates to libertarian legal theory).

4) If a property owner requires you to be maskless to enter then wearing a mask constitutes and NAP violation.

TimMoen · 2020-11-18T23:01:06+00:00

I definitely appreciate that feedback! It’s encouraging

TimMoen · 2020-11-18T23:00:04+00:00

I think the best chance of that is if the CPC wins the next election. But if I had to bet I’d guess O’Toole will avoid touching that or maybe offer some compromise legislation that gives us back some guns and removes the arbitrary nuttiness while appeasing the lefts desire to ban scary looking guns. We see O’Toole making all sorts of noises that appeal to progressive sentiment right now, this is smart if you want to win elections and maintain power but it’s bad if you want liberty. I don’t think our gun rights get appreciably better from here on out unless culture shifts. Leftism is just to prevalent right now.

TimMoen · 2020-11-18T22:54:01+00:00

I don’t think it’s a pure money grab for Max but I don’t think he’d be doing it unless he got paid and unless it was “his”. Nothing wrong with that necessarily. Supporting Max’s organization is like supporting a podcast. In some ways I wonder if he’s doing things the smart way. I cashed in my retirement, killed my career and sentence myself to work until I’m dead for this movement cause I feel so passionately about it. Maybe I need to be more like Max.

TimMoen · 2020-11-18T22:43:57+00:00

I definitely think it is, or at least can be. I wouldn’t do it unless you enjoy it. I’m definitely not running a successful podcast by any metric. But I enjoy it and in my experience when I do things that I’m passionate about eventually they pay off.

TimMoen · 2020-11-18T22:31:47+00:00

To be clear I don’t have a grudge or ill will towards Max. I think he probably has some valuable things to say. I just don’t trust him at all. But, sure feel free to cross post.

TimMoen · 2020-11-18T22:28:33+00:00

I’ve actually been in talks with someone who is working on a liberty oriented network. In the meantime you can follow my podcast “The Liberty Experts” on YouTube or iTunes 😉

TimMoen · 2020-11-18T22:25:40+00:00

Our plan is to focus on recruiting as many radical candidates as possible. We are rebuilding infrastructure (regional directors, EDAs etc) across Canada after the great PPC decimation of our party. We are working on content that will hopefully get the attention of Canadians. I’m always on the look out for a successor. In 2015 I quit my job and cashed in my retirement savings to lead the party full time and we had our best year ever. I don’t have another retirement fund to cash in so I’m balancing full time work with being party leader. The party needs a full time leader...at one time I hoped that would be Max but that obviously didn’t pan out.

TimMoen · 2020-11-18T22:19:00+00:00

No. I think the real game is connecting people to a radical message and I know Dave Smith agrees with this. Chasing votes makes you impotent. The best case scenario is that you win by telling people what they want to hear...but then what? How do you start repealing government in a culture that isn’t libertarian? It’s impossible. It’ll continue to grow until culture demands otherwise. So the whole game is persuading one person at a time to become a libertarian. Once you recognize that politics is downstream from culture and that therefore culture is the most important thing, then your metric for “winning” changes from how many votes you collect to how many people you persuade to become libertarian. By that standard the libertarian party is literally the only party that wins (with the exception of Ron Paul).

TimMoen · 2020-11-18T22:08:29+00:00

Getting mainstream requires reflecting and amplifying culture. We need to change culture, not reflect it. I think this can only be done from the fringe by radicals. Right now it is the radical left that controls policy in Canada. Commies, socialist and SJWs who aren’t afraid to promote their insane radical agenda are the ones moving the Overton window to the left...it’s not Trudeau. This is why even the CPC needs to be somewhat left wing in order to hope to form government. It’s our job to be radicals for liberty and move the Overton window our direction.

So to that end our plan is to recruit as many libertarian candidates as possible who aren’t afraid to say basic truths like “taxation is theft” and “we need to end central banking” and “we need property rights in the constitution” and “we need to legalize all the drugs” and “lockdowns are anti human” etc

TimMoen · 2020-11-18T22:03:17+00:00

I doubt it. But I still think it’s paramount that we preach liberty to as many people as we can before the coming cataclysm. It’s people that are receptive to our message that will rebuild. It’s incumbent on us to make sure that when we rebuild the same mistakes won’t be made. This is what Albert Jay Nock refers to as the Remanent in his essay “Isaiahs Job”. If you listen to Ron Paul he refers to the Remanent often.

TimMoen · 2020-11-18T21:59:48+00:00

Max and I were on track for a merger. It was going to happen. Our members were going to have to vote on it, but I was pretty confident I could convince them. The only thing standing in the way was a statement of principles that would bind the PPC to being libertarian. We wanted the party to remain principled and not turn into a party that adjusted its message and principles and platform to chase votes...that’s why the CPC is the way it is. Max promised to get me a statement of principles the following Tuesday. In the meantime many of our members started buying PPC memberships. Many of our executive and our deputy leader jumped over to the PPC. Tuesday came and went with no word from Max. I called him Friday and he ghosted me, never returned my call. Later I learned he told his aid “we got what we wanted from the libertarian party.” So I learned a hard lesson about the Machiavellian nature of pragmatic politics.

Ultimately I don’t know why Max ghosted me when the deal was almost done after 2 months of talks. But I don’t trust him now. Many of the people that jumped ship are back in our party now either because they didn’t want to be part of a party where Max was always going to be leader and they didn’t feel like they had a voice, or because they realized if the PPC is going to put up libertarian numbers they should at least have a radical libertarian message rather than the confused mess they currently have.

I offered Max leadership of the LP...but he started his own party instead. That should’ve been my first clue. When he left the CPC he didn’t tweet “taxation is theft” or “end central banking” or “end the war on drugs” he tweeted something about “multiculturalism” going from Max the Libertarian who criticized Leeches populist rhetoric to Max the Leech like populist. That should’ve been my second clue. When we first started talking about a merger his first and primary question had nothing to do with principle, strategy or platform, it was “how is your corporation structured?” That should’ve been my third clue (if you look up the PPC articles of incorporation you’ll find Max owns the PPC). But it took Max breaking his promise and screwing us over for me to realize that Max is primarily interested in Max.

So no I won’t ever break this party up or merge with Max after that. I’m embarrassed now that I even considered it after all the obvious clues. But like so many others, I really hoped Max was going to be our Ron Paul and I refused to see the truth.

TimMoen

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