Are boaters posh?

[Sneds]

Like Mr Fanner
Spend less or nothing on other things, like fags, takeaways, costa holidays although I have been known to drink the odd beer when the sun is over the radar arch
Agree though, that people think I must "earn/get paid to much" as I have a boat!

 

[Renegade_Master]

from a normal semi mid class background but parents didnt have bundles, self made business got me the boats

 

[Seahope]

Most people you meet would say boaters are really posh with loads of money.

I do wonder sometimes if this is mostly true when you see some of the boats and people in marinas.

So, are most of you from good families with loads of old money or are you a self made man (or woman)?

Posh no, aspiring to be a Gentleman

 

[ricky_s]

Perhaps I should add poor but from old money?

 

[Bbroomlea]

Its funny how people perceive boating - when we bought our first boat in September last year people thought we had won the lottery.

We both work long hours in fairly well paid jobs but no means high earners. Most of our disposable income now goes on the boat in some way or another. We have cut down visits to the pub and meals out during the week and weekends away to part fund the boat - now however we have something to show for our money!!

We dont buy new cars either - I know someone at work who has just spent 18K of their own money on a new Ford Focus - 3 years and 10K depreciation since they bought the last one!! We have nice cars but they are bought 3-4 years old so dont cost the earth and are kept for 4 years or so. Suppose each to their own though in what people spend their cash on.

Some sacrifices are made but the end result is we have something we enjoy doing, something we can do together and with friends and thats the main thing.

 

[oceandrive]

I'm very posh well I must be the swimbo instists that the backed beens in Sainsburys are far better than the ones in Netto even if they do have the same label. She also has a bunch of dafs on the dining room table. I recon We must be very posh or at least she is.

 

[Searush]

I'm very posh well I must be the swimbo instists that the backed beens in Sainsburys are far better than the ones in Netto even if they do have the same label. She also has a bunch of dafs on the dining room table. I recon We must be very posh or at least she is.

THAT's not posh, that's just aspirational - what we used to call "ideas above your station".

(Serves yer right for calling my boat "a MoBo wiv a stick in the middle" )

 

[Greenheart]

Oceandrive appears to have learned to spell in a posh school...not. Or was that irony? I'm lousy at recognising it.

 

[rbcoomer]

Like most it seems here, I'm neither posh nor rich. Grew up on a council estate in single parent family, mother crippled with Arthritis by the time I was 7 so rapidly learned to stand on my own feet. Never not worked, at times working 18+ hours per day juggling 3 or more jobs. Like others, I don't smoke, drink, take holidays or buy luxury goods. Never spent more than 3K on a car (usually 2K) and expect to get a good 4-5 years from that. Self-employed most of the last 10 years so working ever harder...

Our boating to date has cost us around £1800 - including the boat! Most of this was on equipment/safety and we take the view that it is in lieu of holidays never taken, fags drink etc! I know of many who drink more than that in a year It will no doubt double this year as hopefully we'll get out much more and continue the restoration work - or buy something bigger.

 

[Greenheart]

RBCoomer, just one very little piece of advice, which I know to have extraordinary value...whatever your habits hitherto, take a drop of booze aboard! Even if you'd never touch it normally. It's just astonishing, what fearful discomfort, weariness and uncertainty a drop of drink can dispense with. It really works.

But don't over-do it, or you'll never be seen again.

 

[rbcoomer]

RBCoomer, just one very little piece of advice, which I know to have extraordinary value...whatever your habits hitherto, take a drop of booze aboard! Even if you'd never touch it normally. It's just astonishing, what fearful discomfort, weariness and uncertainty a drop of drink can dispense with. It really works.

But don't over-do it, or you'll never be seen again.

Great idea - I'll stick a bottle of Malt on my 'essential safety' list along with lifeline & first aid kit etc...

P.S. I wasn't saying I never drink, just not much - perhaps a couple of units a month nowadays. When younger I drank more than that per hour... I 'grew up' when running a nightclub I had worked in and then I went on to work for a pub group for a few years. I think I probably woke up to how much it cost - I'll be careful not to repeat that mistake on the boat fuel bills!

 

[oceandrive]

No its posh spelling. Cos Netto sels good backed beenz and she the SWIMBO telz me their not Dafs or Daffs they have a very POSH name, and the jam jar they are in says Robinsons so how posh is that.

Either way I'm still very posh.

Anyway in Neto the sign says Backed Beens 8p and in Sainsburys it Says Backed Beans 58p still the same beenz just a posh 50p in it.

 

[strakeryrius]

I've lost a client after telling him that I had a boat. He was a rather a "mine's gotta be betta than yours" type, and got his nose out of joint over it. He became convinced that we were somehow ripping him off in order to be able to fund the boat. He got quite nasty and his parting shot was along the lines of "I'm not paying you so you can run a boat at our expense". Total T*ss*r.

 

[oceandrive]

Sorry Searush I was just jesting regarding the sailing yachts. There is one thing I can confidently say you could more than likely take my motor yacht off its berth and go to sea. If I tried to get a sailing yacht more than a few hundred yards with all them lines and winches and flappy things it would be curtains!!

 

[rbcoomer]

I've lost a client after telling him that I had a boat. He was a rather a "mine's gotta be betta than yours" type, and got his nose out of joint over it. He became convinced that we were somehow ripping him off in order to be able to fund the boat. He got quite nasty and his parting shot was along the lines of "I'm not paying you so you can run a boat at our expense". Total T*ss*r.

Politics of envy - a sad ailment afflicting a large part of our society.

 

[oldgit]

A private rant

"Politics of envy ....."

O my Gawd.Please please can somebody come up with something a bit better than this,just about the most over used and unthinking retort ever .
Has anybody ever thought that this feeble little statement says more about the poster than the subject in hand.
Envy,although few will perhaps admit it,is a driving force that some driven folks cannot ignore and it will ensure that they get off there bums and get a slice of that action.
As for all this sanctimonious bilge about workinhard and being born in a hole in the ground
a la monty Python.Sigh.
Never knowningly worked hard in my life and always avoided work like the plague,yet still appear to have all the toys .
Life is so unfair it would appear.

 

[rbcoomer]

"Politics of envy ....."

O my Gawd.Please please can somebody come up with something a bit better than this,just about the most over used and unthinking retort ever .
Has anybody ever thought that this feeble little statement says more about the poster than the subject in hand.
Envy,although few will perhaps admit it,is a driving force that some driven folks cannot ignore and it will ensure that they get off there bums and get a slice of that action.
As for all this sanctimonious bilge about workinhard and being born in a hole in the ground
a la monty Python.Sigh.
Never knowningly worked hard in my life and always avoided work like the plague,yet still appear to have all the toys .
Life is so unfair it would appear.

Whilst I'd agree that envy should drive people to try harder, IMO it very often doesn't. Although I'm not rich, I consider myself lucky in other ways and certainly don't envy anyone who has anything nice. I don't see owning a boat as a bastion of the rich, but more about life choices. Few of us can afford everything we'd like, but for most we can dispense with a few things in order to fund a boat or other passion.

The childishness of the client strakeryrius referred to was in my view akin to the yob who 'keys' a smart motor simply because he/she hasn't got one! I think we sadly have a significant section of society that believe such things are a right and have little ambition or drive to achieve. Just because they can't be bothered to improve their prospects or simply make other choices, they resent those that do and dismiss them as 'rich', 'posh', 'privileged' etc - or like the client referred to, assume they're being ripped off. There is a contrary view that someone with the nice boat, house, motor etc is simply very good at their job and therefore perhaps itself a good reason to employ their services or buy goods etc from them...?

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

Posh no, aspiring to be a Gentleman

Tha's a good way to look at it. The cucumber sandwiches are cut extremely thin, because that uses less bread

 

[epervier]

Yes, I am very posh.

The other two are my valet and butler.

My good fellow, dismiss your valet, his pressing skills aren't up to the required standard,that burgee's got more wrinkles than Keith Richards face

 

[Kipper]

"Politics of envy ....."

O my Gawd.Please please can somebody come up with something a bit better than this,just about the most over used and unthinking retort ever .
Has anybody ever thought that this feeble little statement says more about the poster than the subject in hand.
Envy,although few will perhaps admit it,is a driving force that some driven folks cannot ignore and it will ensure that they get off there bums and get a slice of that action.
As for all this sanctimonious bilge about workinhard and being born in a hole in the ground
a la monty Python.Sigh.
Never knowningly worked hard in my life and always avoided work like the plague,yet still appear to have all the toys .
Life is so unfair it would appear.

I trust that was tongue in Cheek!