135. Navigating the Hudson with Freedom Boat Club

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Being on the water, for me, it's
therapeutic, it's calming, it 

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has this openness. 
The air smells different. 

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I have a whole psychological 
thing that happens to me on the 

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water. 
Are you attracted to the water 

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in that way or is that just a me
fetish thing? 

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No, absolutely I am. 
I think that's really common. 

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I mean, there's a lot of science
behind this. 

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There was a book that came out a
few years ago called Blue Mind, 

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and it was a scientific approach
to that feeling you're 

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describing. 
And it's true. 

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Like, I'm not a doctor or 
anything or scientist, but I 

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feel the same thing. 
And then I get out there. 

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It's just the best way to spend 
your free time, in my opinion. 

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It it really is clears your 
mind, right? 

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There's nothing else to do. 
Your phone is on the boat, 

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you're in the water. 
You know, And the other thing I 

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really like about it is we often
say internally that we're not 

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competing against boat sales or 
even other boat clubs. 

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It's like we're competing 
against other options where 

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people can spend their free 
time, right? 

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Including your phone and Disney 
and right. 

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And so it's like one of the last
frontiers where you get the 

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people you love. 
You're in an enclosed space away

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from everyone else and like 
you're just there to make good 

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memories. 
I'm Matt Zucker and this is 

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Cydia, learning to live and love
life in the Hudson Valley. 

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Have you ever looked out on the 
Hudson River and wished you were

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out there on the water instead 
of just driving alongside it? 

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Well, today we are dipping our 
toes in the boating lifestyle 

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with Josh Rosella from Freedom 
Boat Club. 

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Freedom Boat Club is the world's
biggest Boat Club, and they're 

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making waves right here in the 
Hudson Valley with three local 

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sites spanning both sides of the
river in Ossining, Haverstraw 

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and Piermont. 
Plus, if you're in Jersey, like 

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many listeners are, you can find
them down at Liberty Landing in 

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Jersey City. 
In this episode, we talk all 

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about the lifestyle. 
I have a new obsession with this

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idea. 
Dock and dine, because what's 

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better than pulling up to a 
restaurant by boat? 

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And I also learned what it means
to go sand. 

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Barring whether you're a season 
captain or a future expert 

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boater, put on your top sliders 
and let's go boating. 

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Here's my conversation with 
Josh. 

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Hi, Josh. 
Hey. 

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Hello Matt, How are you? 
Hey, thanks for coming on City 

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and I'm really excited to talk 
about boating and boating clubs 

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and what you guys are all about 
too, because I have a whole 

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fascination with the water. 
I mean, I just love the Hudson 

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and I love water and I just want
to know everything about every. 

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Well, that's excellent. 
Yeah. 

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Well, hopefully I can help get 
you informed and and likewise 

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thank you for having me. 1st 
about the water too, like how 

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did you get into like did you 
like Aquaman or did you like 

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Gilligan's Island? 
Like how did you get into the 

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water business? 
Gilligan's Island, yes. 

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So I, I grew up in western PA, 
like central western 

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Pennsylvania in the mountains 
and didn't have a lot of access 

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to water. 
So I was more of a ATV, you 

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know, once men, I guess. 
And so maybe the inverse of the 

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city. 
And if I understand that the 

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meaning there, I grew up in the 
in the sticks. 

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But So what happened is my my 
aunt and uncle are my partners 

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and and I was working for a 
railroad there at about 10 years

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in and I started asking them 
about like some business ideas. 

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I started asking them about that
and you know what they thought? 

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They're very experienced in 
business and they had a family 

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friend who owned the Freedom 
Boat Club franchises in New 

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York, on Long Island and in 
Connecticut. 

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And so they were already kind of
exploring this. 

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And they said to me, you know 
what about this? 

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And so I went out and spent some
time in Long Island at the clubs

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and a little bit of time on my 
and uncle's boat. 

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And we eventually, you know, 
what sealed it for me, if I 

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could just say this, We were 
with them in Delaware, where 

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they live, And we were on their 
boat, my aunt and uncle. 

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And we pulled up to a restaurant
called Paradise Girl. 

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It's like one of my favorite 
places in the world. 

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And a guy that I went to high 
school with lives out there at 

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the time. 
And he was always posting videos

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and photos of himself and his 
family and friends at Paradise 

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Girl, like multiple live bands 
right on the water. 

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And so we pull up past it. 
It's like a Saturday. 

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There's boats all over the 
sandbars. 

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They have 85 slits of the 
restaurant. 

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And we pull into the restaurant.
And my wife and I just kind of 

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looked at each other and was 
like, yeah, this is our life 

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now, You know, we're going to do
this. 

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And so we just fell in love with
it then. 

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And so once we made that 
decision, then I spent a little 

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bit of time at Long Island 
clubs, and I had another kind of

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epiphany. 
I was working with the dock cans

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up there. 
We were cleaning boats at the 

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end of the day, the sun was 
setting, and we were eating like

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a chicken sandwich, you know, 
for dinner on the docks. 

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The sun was setting, yachts in 
the background. 

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And it just really solidified 
for me that this is a life I 

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want. 
So really like, it's a lifestyle

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more than just like the water 
per SE. 

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No doubt. 
Yeah. 

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I think it really is. 
I mean, you know, it was an 

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investment. 
When you go boating, it costs 

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money and time and and so I 
think you have to really love 

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it. 
You're either wanting that 

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lifestyle or not. 
But I do think it it is 

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definitely a lifestyle. 
I mean, it's the places you can 

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go and the things you do are are
very different from any other 

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hobby I would say. 
Even how you dress, it's almost 

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like golf has a distinct look 
and boating is like polo shirts 

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and it's very blue and very 
stripes and do you have special 

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shoes and stuff? 
100% yeah. 

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It's funny you say that. 
So when I first started the 

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club, I realized I needed some 
new clothes for the reasons you 

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just subscribed and and I went 
back to visit my old Co workers 

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at the railroad and I showed up 
in Sperrys like boat shoes and 

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oh, Mr. Boating looked at you. 
But no, you're, you're right. 

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I mean, it's, it's shorts. 
And you know, our dress code at 

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work is very casual. 
It's it's fun shorts, a polo 

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maybe. 
And, you know, some sun shirts 

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or fishing shirts, things like 
that. 

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And and boat shoes for sure. 
Yeah. 

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And maybe before we get into the
business, we could just talk 

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about like being on the water. 
And for me, it's therapeutic, 

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it's calming. 
It has this like openness. 

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The air smells different. 
Like I have a whole 

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psychological thing that happens
to me on the water. 

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It's like a fascination about it
too. 

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Like do you do you see that in 
people that want that or are you

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attracted to the water in that 
way? 

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Or is that just a May fetish 
thing? 

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No, absolutely I am. 
I think that's really common. 

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I mean, there's a lot of science
behind this. 

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There was a book that came out a
few years ago called Blue Mind, 

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and it was a scientific approach
to that feeling you're 

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describing. 
I'm not a doctor or anything or 

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scientist, but I feel the same 
thing. 

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And then I get out there, it's 
just fun. 

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I, I was fortunate enough to 
visit a few of my friends in 

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Florida over the weekend and we 
took a boat out from Freedom 

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Boat Club at one of those sites.
And we were just at a sandbar, 

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you know, floating around. 
And it's just the best way, you 

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know, to spend your free time, 
in my opinion. 

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It, it really is clears your 
mind, right? 

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There's nothing else to do. 
Your phone is on the boat, 

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you're in the water. 
You know, And the other thing I 

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really like about it is we often
say internally that we're not 

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competing against, you know, 
boat sales or even other boat 

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clubs. 
It's like we're competing 

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against other options where 
people can spend their free 

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time, right, including your 
phone and Disney and right. 

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And so it's like one of the last
frontiers where you get the 

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people you love. 
You're in an enclosed space away

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from everyone else and like 
you're just there to make good 

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memories. 
Usually people put their phones 

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away and enjoy a few hours of 
little loved ones company. 

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So that does a lot for the, you 
know, your mental state as well 

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when you're on a boat with the 
people you love and you know, 

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there's nothing else to do but 
enjoy their company. 

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Yeah, nice. 
What about comparing like the 

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Hudson River to like, water off 
Long Island where you were at 

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first, or elsewhere? 
Like the Hudson's different, 

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right? 
It's this estuary. 

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It goes two ways, you know, it's
just a different than the sea. 

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Like what is it about the Hudson
that people should know you? 

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Know it's a great distinction. 
So I mean I do most of my 

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boating in southern Delaware 
where I live now and it's very 

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different I mean very different 
waterways. 

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I'm in the back bays there. 
It's shallow right sandbars. 

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So the river unique in a couple 
of ways. 

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One thing, it's a lot deeper, 
not, you know, no sandbars or 

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anything like that, but like you
said, you go One Direction or 

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the other. 
But I think one thing that's 

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unique about the Hudson versus 
anywhere else. 

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I'm up here today actually, and 
it's just a striking place to 

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be, right? 
Like every time I come up here, 

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I'm like, man, this place is 
amazing. 

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I mean, you have the city 
skyline view, which is just 

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incredible. 
I'm I'm a Jersey City now, but 

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in the Hudson in the fall. 
I mean, it's like no other 

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place, right? 
So you take a boat out in that 

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environment where you have the 
the the rock face and you know, 

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you're in that valley. 
I mean, it's just an incredible 

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place to be. 
Whereas our other locations are 

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flat, you know, and sand and 
they're beautiful as well. 

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But Hudson Valley is unique in 
that regard. 

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Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. 
All the peepers that drive up. 

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On the roads, in the. 
Fall maybe should take a boat 

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instead. 
Well, they're both great 

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viewpoints, but yeah, being on a
boat is a little more unique 

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maybe. 
Let's talk about the club 

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because because freedom is a 
it's a Boat Club and I'm not as 

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familiar with them. 
I mean, I've been out on like a 

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random sail and a sunset sail. 
And if a friend like actually 

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invites me on a boat all and we 
say yes. 

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But like, how do boating clubs 
work? 

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Is it like a Golf Club? 
So it's, you know, you pay an 

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entry fee, it's private club, 
pay an entry fee one time, you 

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pay dues every month and that 
gets you access to our boats, 

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right, Which is the important 
thing that most people want. 

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But in addition to just getting 
access to our boats, like what 

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separates Freedom Boat Club from
the rest of the pack is that we 

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are the largest and oldest Boat 
Club in the world. 

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We have about almost 450 
locations. 

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Like we're a few shy of that all
across the world, right? 

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So as a member of our club, not 
only do you get unlimited voting

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access at the location which you
sign up, you get it everywhere, 

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right? 
So you get reciprocal access to 

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every other club that's not in 
your home franchise group, 

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meaning that if you join my club
today, which you should by the 

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way, I'll send you the paperwork
after the call, but if you were 

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to sign up for our club today, 
you get unlimited access to all 

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the sites that I own. 
You would also get reciprocal 

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access to everywhere else, 
right? 

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So if you wanted to go to Spain 
or Australia or Florida or 

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Seattle, right, Lake of the 
Ozarks, right? 

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There's just about 450 locations
so you can visit as a member of 

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the club in addition to just the
boating, which is, you know, the

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big thing in the club. 
We offer a lot of clubs inside 

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the club or a few I should say. 
We have a Sea Sisters club which

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is for women. 
So women get together. 

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They, they often times take our 
boats up. 

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They do other things too. 
They'll go to a happy hour or a 

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show or whatever, but it's just 
a little group inside the group 

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where these women can create, 
you know, lifelong friendships. 

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We have a anglers club, we call 
it. 

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So for people who fish, we'll 
put captains out on boats with 

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the little fishing seminars. 
So to get that fishing community

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together, we do that as well. 
And then we just have a number 

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of events where we invite all 
members. 

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They can come to these events. 
We'll do things like fireworks 

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cruises on the 4th of July. 
We participate in a lot of 

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parades on the water, things 
like that, and so we're trying 

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to get our members together so 
that you know, they can meet 

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other like minded people and 
continue to have fun as a group 

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if they wish. 
And you mentioned like boats in 

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plural, like canoes, sailboats, 
motor boat. 

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What kind of boats are there? 
Yeah, we use power boats and 

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there are maybe a few sailboats 
here and there, but for the most

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part, in Freedom Boat Club, it's
power boats from, I'll say, 20 

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to 24 feet. 
That's generally the size of 

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boat. 
You would join a Freedom Boat 

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Club and enjoy. 
We do have an elite to your 

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membership that's a bit of a 
newer offering that has bigger 

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boats, right. 
And so that's kind of being 

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defined in my own club. 
It's anywhere from 26 to 29 for 

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the moment. 
And so, yeah, all power boats 

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with outboard engines. 
It varies though, right? 

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So if you went to a lake in 
Tennessee, you might find wake 

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boats, right, for wake surfing. 
Or if you went out on the 

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Pacific Northwest, you may find 
pilot house boats because the, 

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you know, the weather and the 
boating are a little different 

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there. 
In my club here in the 

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Northeast, we have boats like 
center consoles, deck boats, bow

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riders, pontoon boats, and now 
we've had a couple of ribs, the 

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rigid hall, inflatable boats as 
well. 

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But so they're mostly open deck 
boats for day boating. 

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But some of the clubs, like I 
said, it varies. 

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You may find a cabin boat 
somewhere or a wake boat or you 

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know things like that. 
But in the general 22 foot 

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range. 
Obviously these are two very 

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important questions. 
Can I bring beer and wine on? 

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Can I bring my dog? 
Like what are the rules? 

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Yeah, so there are a couple 
rules. 

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Not you can bring all your 
friends. 

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You should bring as many friends
as the boat will allow. 

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And you can definitely bring 
your pets, your boat, 

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appropriate pets. 
Maybe not a bird or something, 

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but yeah, we love to see the 
dogs. 

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We do like photo contests for 
dock dogs and you know, we do 

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some fun stuff like that. 
As far as the drinking goes, 

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everyone on the boat, if they're
of age, can drink. 

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The captain should not be 
drinking and operating the boat,

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but anybody else can can enjoy. 
And in terms of the public, I 

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know some people that own boats 
or they own part of a boat, like

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with a couple people, like 
what's the difference between 

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owning a boat and joining a Boat
Club? 

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Like why should I do one versus 
the other? 

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I would say the main difference 
is, well, there are probably 

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several things, but the most 
important one to me would be 

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that you don't have to maintain 
or repair your boat. 

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You don't own the boat. 
We own the boats. 

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It's not like a timeshare where 
everybody owns a portion of it. 

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We own the boats, which means, 
you know, we buy the boats, we 

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maintain them, we service them, 
we pull them out of the water in

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the winter. 
You know, we insure them, we're 

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painting them every season. 
We're putting them back in the 

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water. 
You know, our boats are the 

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first boats to go in in the 
spring and the last boats to 

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come out in the fall or winter. 
And so you don't have to worry 

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about any of that as a member, 
right? 

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You just when the season opens, 
the boats are in the water, 

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they're clean. 
Our staff is at the dock. 

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Our staff loads your gear for 
you. 

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The boat is full of gas. 
You don't have to fuel it. 

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You just make a reservation and 
show up and leave. 

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And so for me, you know, that's 
an important thing because what 

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ends up happening, I think is 
our club members, they can go 

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boating for an hour and it's 
worth it to them because there's

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no cleaning, there's no fueling,
there's no prep. 

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You just show up and get on the 
boat, right? 

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So if you're limited on time, if
you had your own boat, those 

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sorts of things take a lot 
longer, especially if you're 

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trailering it somewhere, but you
have to wash it, you have to 

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fuel, you have to put it away 
with the cover on, you know, 

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whatever. 
Our members don't have to deal 

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with any of that. 
So any short amount of time can 

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be enjoyed just on the water, 
right? 

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So that's important to me, you 
know, the ability to avoid 

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maintaining the boat, repairing 
the boat, that's important to 

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me. 
Other nice amenities in the 

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club, we turn up fleet over 
every three years, meaning that 

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you will never be on an old 
boat, right? 

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We're turning them over every 
couple of years. 

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So they're always nice new or 
like new boats, right? 

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Which is an important 
distinction about you owning 

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your own boat. 
You're going to be stuck with 

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that boat until you get a new 
boat, and it's the only type of 

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boat you have. 
And you're going to continue to 

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go out of the same slip every 
time you go anywhere. 

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In our club, you know, we're 
turning over boats. 

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We're trying out new models. 
We're doing interesting things. 

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But you have the variety of 
boats, right? 

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So you could take a center 
console out and go fishing one 

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day. 
The very next day, you could go 

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out on a pontoon boat and beach 
it on a sandbar and, you know, 

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enjoy the sandbar. 
Also, the variety of locations I

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think matters a lot, too. 
You don't have to continue to go

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out of the same slip of the same
boat ramp. 

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If you want to make a 
reservation 30 minutes down the 

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road and a new location and a 
new body of water, you know, 

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just do that and you get to 
enjoy all your time. 

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Yeah. 
How does it? 

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Work so people don't know 
there's availability. 

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Like how do you know you run out
of boats? 

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Yeah. 
So we have a reservation system 

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app. 
So our members, they just make 

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reservations right on the app. 
If you were to log into the app,

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it's got a lot of new features 
that are great. 

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It will tell you within a radius
what's available or around you, 

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available for booking. 
And so you just get on, see 

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what's available, book the time 
slot you want and show up at the

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dock at that time. 
And as a club, so we monitor 

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availability very closely. 
It's really important. 

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Our members need to be able to 
get out, you know, a reasonable 

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amount every year. 
And so we monitor things like 

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the usage of a boat, like how 
what percentage of the time is 

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the boat being utilized? 
And that's how we kind of 

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balance our fleet out with the 
demand. 

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Brian and I really love sunset, 
so I would love to go out on 

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sunset, but I would also be 
terrified of getting stuck out 

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there in the dark. 
How do I time it so I get out 

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there but I get back before the 
darkness comes? 

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Really important. 
Yeah. 

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So our members in Freedom Boat 
Club, they have to be back by 30

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minutes before sunset. 
So when you leave the dock, your

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dock hand would tell you the 
latest return time is X today. 

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And that just varies. 
It goes up and down throughout 

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the year, right, as that's 
earlier and later. 

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And so they would tell you 
exactly what time you need to be

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back. 
And you would be able to see the

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sun coming down and everything, 
but you need to be back 30 

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minutes before sunset. 
But you would know exactly when 

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that is. 
And so we have GPS units on the 

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boats with trackers, right? 
So you can get to wherever 

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you're going. 
Just monitor that amount amount 

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of time and give yourself the 
same amount of time to get back.

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And what about like the first 
times I go out? 

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I feel like I need to be closely
tracked, like I would need like 

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a boat behind me making sure I 
don't go Askew. 

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How easy is it to pick this up? 
Is it like getting on a moped or

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is it like getting on a 
motorcycle, which is much more 

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complicated? 
There's like myself, enough 

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credit. 
Yeah, I know. 

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It's a good question though. 
Thank you. 

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I can drive. 
Stick. 

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I can drive stick, so that's 
something. 

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All right, there you go. 
You would be fine on a boat. 

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So, but our captains though 
every new member despite your 

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boating background. 
So even if you've been boating 

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for your entire life, every 
member goes through our new 

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member orientation. 
So our captains will do a 

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classroom or virtual, you know, 
training with you for a couple 

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of hours and that just is about 
the rules of the road, you know 

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what navigation markers look 
like and what they need, things 

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like that. 
And then you would spend in 

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person time with the captain on 
the boat and they would teach 

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you exactly how to operate the 
boat, exactly how to dock the 

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boat. 
And if you're uncomfortable 

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after that first training, you 
can come back for unlimited 

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trainings until both of you and 
the captain are comfortable in 

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your skills. 
At that point, we would give you

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the certifications necessary to 
go make reservations do. 

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You have a term for a newcomer, 
like a newbie, like a citiot. 

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Like is there? 
Is there a word for like a new 

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boating person? 
There probably are somewhere. 

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I don't, I don't know. 
But I think in our club, you 

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know, they're just new members. 
So they're new future expert 

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boaters. 
That's all. 

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Future experts, Yeah, that's it.
Yeah. 

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Now we just new member, new 
member orientation. 

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Hope you're enjoying hearing 
about boating and Freedom Boat 

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Club. 
Freedom Boat Club has a bunch of

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locations around the area 
including Ossining, Haverstraw, 

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and Piermont. 
Plus, if you're in Jersey at 

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Liberty Landing in Jersey City, 
check them out at 

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freedomboatclub.com. 
The water is waiting. 

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Oh, and tell them you heard 
about it on City at podcast and 

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you'll get $500 off the entry 
fee. 

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So my neighbor is a part owner 
of a boat up here in 

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Prairieville. 
She loves it and she's really 

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curious about like how a boating
club like participates in the 

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community. 
She notices that like both 

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people like that live around 
like are very into it and 

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there's a certain nice feel for 
like self policing and taking 

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care of it and that kind of 
sculpture. 

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Does that manifest itself for 
for you guys too? 

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Mind does. 
I mean, first and foremost, we 

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want to be good neighbors 
wherever we are. 

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You know, so every Marina we go 
into, we try to make the place 

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better, right? 
Our dock staff will look out for

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not only our own boats, but for 
other people's boats. 

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And likewise reciprocates in 
that community. 

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That, that is one thing. 
It's really strong sense of 

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community in, in the boating 
environment, like even in the 

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marinas, people are always 
looking out for one another and 

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each other's boats and things 
like that. 

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But yes, we participate in 
several and I'm sure lots of 

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boaters do this, not special to 
us, but we do like river 

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cleanups and we do a lot of 
charitable causes like with 

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mammal rescue groups and, and 
there's bird watching groups and

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there's, you know, we're always 
volunteering for things like 

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that and for sailing events. 
And we just, we want to be a 

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good partner to the community. 
We're happy to leverage our 

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assets, you know, to help people
out, to help them accomplish 

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what they're trying to do, 
especially when it comes to the 

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environment and safety on the 
water. 

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And when I go out on a boat 
before sunset, can you like go 

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swimming or go power sailing? 
Or is it like boat and boat 

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back? 
Can I dock somewhere and then 

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00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,720
come back? 
How regulated is boating? 

440
00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,320
No, I mean, you can do pretty 
much anything you can imagine, 

441
00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,120
you know, we, we would let you 
do so You can go boating. 

442
00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:05,960
Yeah. 
Dock and Dine's very popular. 

443
00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:07,520
To dock and dine. 
No water. 

444
00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,200
Skiing, dock and dine. 
Yeah, absolutely. 

445
00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,640
Yeah, yeah. 
There's nothing better than 

446
00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,680
showing up to the restaurant on 
a boat as long as you can dock. 

447
00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,600
If you haven't been properly 
trained and you're an ex one of 

448
00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,840
the future expert boaters, 
there's nothing better than 

449
00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,200
pulling up to a back restaurant 
by but so dock and Dime's 

450
00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,640
incredibly popular. 
Sandbars are very popular. 

451
00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,720
Tubing, water skiing, you know, 
just swimming. 

452
00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,000
Some members will bring those 
chill pads, like the big 

453
00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,920
floating pads, they'll roll them
up and put them on the boat. 

454
00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,200
And so they'll just anchor the 
boat and splash around. 

455
00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,400
All of that stuff's good. 
Fishing, of course, very 

456
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,880
popular. 
Only a few things you know that 

457
00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,080
we would prohibit. 
I think I'm more of a dock, a 

458
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,840
duck and dime versus a fishing, 
but I probably know people that 

459
00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,000
do it. 
Yeah, I'm not a big fishing 

460
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,480
person, I just, I wish I was. 
I will be someday, but not for 

461
00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,200
now. 
Dock and Dimes and sandbars and 

462
00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,520
then I got 2 little girls and 
then we love that. 

463
00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,520
What is sandbar meaning? 
You like go running around? 

464
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,080
What does that mean? 
Yeah, but maybe intentionally. 

465
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:04,760
You you put the boat near the 
ground. 

466
00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:07,760
Yeah. 
So Sandbar was so in a tidal 

467
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:09,880
environment like in the 
Delaware, So down in southern 

468
00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:11,480
Delaware, we have the robe at 
Bay, for instance. 

469
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:12,760
That's where I do a lot of my 
boating. 

470
00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:16,720
As tide comes out, side runs 
out, some of the little islands 

471
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:18,320
will emerge from the water, 
right. 

472
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,480
And so the shallow areas can 
actually be visible little sand 

473
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,360
islands. 
And so you would anchor your 

474
00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:26,920
boat near there in a couple of 
feet of water and you can walk 

475
00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,480
in and you know, people will 
bring lawn chairs and, you know,

476
00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,120
you're timing the tide. 
So you have, you know, several 

477
00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:35,280
hours where that thing will be 
above water and dogs will be 

478
00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,520
running around and people be 
having fun and, you know, and so

479
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:39,760
that's a really, really good 
time. 

480
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,240
So if you were to look at the 
Rehoboth Bay, you'd see boats 

481
00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,360
just, like all around this 
island, like 100 boats, you 

482
00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:48,200
know, anchored around this 
island and they're all hanging 

483
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,040
out on the sandbar there. 
And how late does this season 

484
00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,480
go, especially in Hudson? 
Valley, we go till November in 

485
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,920
Hudson Valley, so end of October
there we close up shop. 

486
00:21:56,120 --> 00:21:58,200
So Hudson Valley's got a little 
bit of shorter season than you 

487
00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,880
know anywhere down South just 
gets cold and people stop 

488
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,480
boating. 
But we are open, I'll say 

489
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,680
generally from like April till 
November and some of our 

490
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,080
southern locations we run into 
December. 

491
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:13,760
We try to stay open at a few 
locations for fishing people as 

492
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,600
long as we can. 
Those are usually the people 

493
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,040
that are out earliest in the 
season and latest in the season.

494
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:20,840
Yeah, but that's cool. 
But if you if you join and then 

495
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,840
you do it in the Hudson Valley, 
but you know you're going to go 

496
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,000
away, like you could go go visit
a club somewhere else when 

497
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,160
you're going on vacation anyway.
That's exactly right. 

498
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,120
Yep. 
So in those winter months, our 

499
00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:32,880
members are still paying dues 
because we have to pay for the 

500
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,520
boats all year long and so on, 
buy boats that that's how it is.

501
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,520
So our dues are paid 12 months 
out of year. 

502
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,120
But in order to, you know, if 
you want to do experience the 

503
00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:44,440
club in the winter short, yeah. 
I mean, the Carolina S are open 

504
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,000
year round to my knowledge. 
I'm in Florida, there's like 

505
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,200
dozens of these clubs and a ton 
of these. 

506
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,160
And so Yep, they're open year 
round. 

507
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,080
And I mean, that's the place to 
be in the winter. 

508
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,840
So definitely, you know, if 
you're free to book club member,

509
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,360
just keep that in mind and you 
know, try to set something up in

510
00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:00,480
the winter and go enjoy one of 
these warm weather climates. 

511
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,920
So what are all the things that 
like I would need to pay for? 

512
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,400
Yeah. 
So the entry fee, start off 

513
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,360
there, You pay your entry fee to
join the club, you pay your 

514
00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:10,560
monthly dues. 
We have a Peace of Mind plan, 

515
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:12,960
which is optional, which would 
cover damage to the boat, right?

516
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,280
So you have no deductible 
anymore. 

517
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,680
About north of 80% of our 
members too accept that Peace of

518
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:19,680
Mind plan. 
I literally just give some Peace

519
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,320
of Mind to know that if they get
stuck somewhere on a sandbar or 

520
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,000
need a tow or, you know, break a
prop, they don't have to pay for

521
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,280
those things. 
Fuel. 

522
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,680
You pay for your fuel. 
You don't have to fuel the boat.

523
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,640
Our staff will do that for you. 
You'll participate in a checkout

524
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,200
process. 
When you leave the dock, they'll

525
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,000
take note of the fuel meter 
reading. 

526
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,440
When you return, they'll take 
another reading and they will 

527
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,440
deduct that you know the 
difference there and they'll 

528
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,440
apply it to whatever fuel across
that day, right? 

529
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,600
So you just pay for the fuel you
burn. 

530
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,240
You don't have to actually fuel 
it, and you could choose to tip 

531
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,160
the dock staff. 
Other than that, you know, there

532
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,400
are no fees. 
Sometimes when we do a really 

533
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,240
nice event, we will charge, you 
know, just to be neutral in the 

534
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:58,520
event, we'll charge ticket 
prices. 

535
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:00,400
A lot of times we subsidized 
those prices. 

536
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,160
All that stuff's optional, but 
there are like no hidden keys. 

537
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,480
You may have to pay to park at 
certain marinas. 

538
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,280
We don't charge you for gas. 
We don't nickel and dime our 

539
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,560
members really at all. 
And. 

540
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,040
You and you need some cute 
outfits in those shoes. 

541
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,240
Yeah, Yeah. 
That could be helpful. 

542
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:15,440
Sure thing. 
Yeah. 

543
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,720
You may have to spend some money
on boat shoes and hats and you 

544
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,400
know, whatever. 
So in addition to being 

545
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,800
terrified of getting stuck out 
in the dark, which sounds like I

546
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,040
can't because all I've broken 
the rules, I'm too late, is what

547
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,320
about like bad weather? 
Like what happens with bad 

548
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,600
weather and like how much do you
know like it's going to happen? 

549
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,160
Like are you warned or do you 
swing it and see what happens 

550
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:37,800
and get back? 
I mean just speed boats like if 

551
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,280
I get back pretty fast but still
how does weather? 

552
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,840
When you go through training, 
you know our captains will teach

553
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:44,080
you what to look out for on the 
weather. 

554
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:48,000
Are our members, do you need to 
be responsible for knowing a bit

555
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:48,880
about the weather? 
Right. 

556
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,320
But our staff also are very 
aware of the weather when you 

557
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,200
arrive on site. 
We have, we call it our weather 

558
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,080
board. 
It's just a board we fill out 

559
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,360
every day and it has things like
time times, the weather for the 

560
00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:01,400
day, right, what you can expect 
for the day, prices on fuel, 

561
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,120
things like that. 
And so our staff is very aware 

562
00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:06,520
of the weather. 
Now, let's say it's a very bad 

563
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,640
weather day, like small craft. 
If we had a small craft advisory

564
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,200
and you're boating in an open 
water area, like there's nowhere

565
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,400
safe to go, we would close the 
club on that day. 

566
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,880
We won't let anyone be, you 
know, in any trouble. 

567
00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:20,760
Now, if you were on the river 
and small craft advisory was 

568
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,920
down near the Statue of Liberty 
or something, right, You may 

569
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,480
still be able to head up north 
and, you know, be protected. 

570
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,120
So we would let you out, 
anything beyond the small craft 

571
00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:33,600
advisory would just close, like 
if it's named storm or you know,

572
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,600
a tropical storm, anything like 
that, we would be closed. 

573
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,560
Now, if weather is coming in, 
let's say it looked sunny and 

574
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,760
great and we start to notice 
some clouds coming in, our staff

575
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,680
would try to reach out to those 
members via cell phone, text 

576
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,480
messages or calls and let them 
know, hey, you might have some 

577
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,320
weather coming in. 
And from there, we would 

578
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,040
recommend you could either get 
back or if you're somewhere 

579
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,600
else, maybe pull up to one of 
those restaurants, just stick 

580
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,960
shelter for a little bit. 
You'd be able to make that 

581
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:58,400
choice then. 
But we try to alert you as soon 

582
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,000
as we know that it's happening. 
Great. 

583
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:01,920
All right, so we both love 
water. 

584
00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:06,760
We both don't fish yet. 
But for you, like for you 

585
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:11,840
specifically, what's your 
favorite way to experience the 

586
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,880
water, especially when you're in
the Hudson Valley? 

587
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,800
Like, what's your what's your 
shtick? 

588
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:17,880
Yeah, I'm. 
Like a cruising guy. 

589
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,960
I really love that cruising. 
The doc and Dimes are, you know,

590
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,920
a favorite of mine. 
I try to eat one every time I'm 

591
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,880
out and then, you know, just 
anchoring and I, I got to tell 

592
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,160
you the best time I ever had, it
wasn't in the Hudson Valley, but

593
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,520
it was in DC. 
The opening we operated a club 

594
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,320
in DCI was just out with a 
couple of friends and some nice 

595
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,520
cigars. 
We were underneath the Reagan 

596
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,240
just anchored, you know, planes 
coming in overhead, the 

597
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,600
monuments lit up. 
Just sitting on a boat enjoying 

598
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,200
one another's company. 
And so for me, that's it. 

599
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:49,000
I, I'm not like I don't do any 
tubing and no fishing like we 

600
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,160
mentioned. 
I just like to enjoy the company

601
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,280
of the people that I'm with and 
really just decompress and, you 

602
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:59,080
know, leave my phone in, in my 
backpack and, and enjoy what's 

603
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,280
going on around me. 
So in the Hudson, I, I like just

604
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:03,920
cruising. 
I really enjoy cruising up and 

605
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,240
down the river. 
West Point isn't amazing from 

606
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:07,640
the water. 
You know, there's some really 

607
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:08,160
nice. 
Lands. 

608
00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:10,520
That looks so cool. 
From the water it does. 

609
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,040
From that it really does. 
That's north of the Hudson. 

610
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,240
But when you come down to the 
city, I mean our first day when 

611
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,920
we opened here at Jersey City, 
which is where I'm located right

612
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,640
now, when we opened, I took a 
boat out with a few of our staff

613
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,080
and we went up the Hudson a 
little ways. 

614
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,760
But the aircraft carrier that's 
there, I can't. 

615
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,600
Is it the Intrepid? 
There's an aircraft carrier 

616
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:31,960
sitting there with the Concorde 
right. 

617
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,400
First time I had ever seen those
things, but from the water, I 

618
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,200
mean an amazing vantage point to
just see some really cool things

619
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,560
in the city. 
The city itself is amazing to 

620
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,280
see from the water. 
We saw a cruise ship coming out 

621
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,280
the Statue of Liberty by water 
is unbelievable. 

622
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,400
And so I I just like the 
different vantage point and 

623
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,720
getting this and you're. 
Just allowed to like you're 

624
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,120
allowed to just buzz around 
wherever you want. 

625
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,040
Yeah, absolutely. 
Yeah. 

626
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:56,840
Now, maybe not wherever you 
want. 

627
00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,680
Now, Statue of Liberty's got a 
lot of very clearly marked or 

628
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,800
restricted air. 
But I mean, if you're, if you're

629
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,400
within the places that you're 
allowed to be, yeah, you can go.

630
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,280
I mean, take Circle Manhattan, 
head to the Long Island, Sound, 

631
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,120
City Islands. 
Got some really nice restaurants

632
00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:13,360
on it. 
So a lot of very cool places to 

633
00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:14,600
go. 
I'm even thinking of a lot of 

634
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,320
places up here on the Hudson 
where you could duck and dine. 

635
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,800
I'm realizing that like in 
Kingston at the Round Out, 

636
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,720
there's places Athens has a 
nice, you know, any place, I 

637
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,080
guess there's there's a lot of 
restaurants along along the 

638
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,880
river that I'm just realizing I 
could probably make a 

639
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,920
reservation at and and go, do 
you get permission in advance to

640
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,320
dock at the restaurant or at 
that? 

641
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,000
But you may, yeah. 
I mean, it probably varies by 

642
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:38,800
arena. 
Some arenas with restaurants in 

643
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,000
them, I think the restaurants 
will lease a few slips and they 

644
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,800
just leave them in their first 
come, first serve. 

645
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,160
But some marinas do offer 
transient docking where you may 

646
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,800
have to set that up ahead of 
time and reserve a time slot, 

647
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,880
things like that. 
So I would call ahead, you know,

648
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,760
if you're, if you're not sure or
not familiar with it. 

649
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,920
But yeah, I mean, there are many
opportunities to do that and and

650
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,400
it's a really fun thing to do. 
Yeah, that's so fun. 

651
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,280
That's great. 
Thank you. 

652
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:02,360
Thanks.