Are Boaties Neurotic?

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After reading in recent posts the difficulties many seem to have sleeping on board with squeaking mooring lines and water slapping against the hull I am beginning to wonder.

Me - I sleep through any noise that is routine when on board. Wife also. Any others find the same, or do we have a problem?

John

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You should be worried stiff about sinking, collisions, explosions, piracy as well as squeaking lines and water noises.

So to answer your question, you have absolutely no right to sleep soundly. You should be worried stiff!

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Me too, although I must also be subconsciously listening out at the same time, because the slightest odd sound will have me up and investigating.

Being a catamaran we get some really odd sounds, especially as we sleep above the bridgedeck. The trickling water is my favourite, sounds like water running in through a hole, even after I have dismissed it as just current running through the hull, I still have to get up and visit the heads, it is like running a tap.

But as for the average sounds, that and the rocking motion just send me to sleep.

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Re: Simple answer

Than you can become neurotic about brightwork, rot, leaks.............../forums/images/icons/smile.gif

Joe

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Re: Simple answer

Not if you have a clinker boat. I had a Stella for many years.
One thing guaranteed to wake me, was if the wind dropped & it all went quiet. Oh no, we must be aground!
Dan

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Nothing beter than the sound of water lapping at the hull, miss it terribly, it helps my wife and I sleep. As for piracy, I have a very large black cat that attacks undesirables. Failing that a gentle shove at the right time dampens their attempts (Ker-splash)/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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Hi all, I to can sleep sound when afloat. In fact i like to sleep on the boat, have done from a young age. I like the sound of the water on the hull (better in wooden) and the motion of the boat.
the only problem i have is when Sleeping aboard when at the mooring and the ferries go in or out, its like being in a washing machine or something then there is such a wash comes of them.
The ferrys here seem the get away with coming in to the harbour at full speed then ten feet from the end of the pier slow down leaving the boat in the achorage dancing about, oh sorry now i'm ranting.
Sleep tight, Geordie

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John,
Only in winter...........(I sleep well at sea .. provoiding I trust my crew... but do get up if I hear a strange noise at anchor)
BrianJ

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Hi Brian

Will give you a wave when I go by doing the Sydney-Hobart tonight - flying it though.

B*#@dy Jetstar !!!!!!!!!!

John

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Surely you antipodeans will have some inbuilt genetic protection which helps you sleep? You had a fairly long time to get used to noises, - shackles, manacles on your cruise out there, then there was the cat o' nine tails etc - then the Prison Bell every few hours. I'd be really surprised if 'odd' noises were a problem to you.
I just need a few bars of Pipe Seargeant Major Andy McAuslin lilting his way through the Flowers of the Forest and thats my lights oot. Which is why my career in the Queens Own Herbacious Borderers was such a short one I suppose.

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Claymore ..gee you are a worry... first is the Sar Major ,tip toeing through the tulips , then you admit being attached to "Queens ".. surely a Border line case...

Both my " way -backs " were sent out on ships as part of the first fleet.. Great great etc Grandad was on trumper up charges as he was a stone mason and built half of Sydney Town.. I am sure Great Great etc Grandma, didn't mean to hold up that " toff" with a pistol and rob him.. she was going to hang, but instead came out to a far far better and warmer place... they had 14 children and now have about 50 000 descendents.. so be careful what you say he he he
BrianJ

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True!

There's a nice old double ender called "Alan", now in the Med, that was built clinker, but doubled to carvel at the request of her first owner after his first trial trip in her!

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Probably would have moved to Oz long ago Brian, only problem is they want 10% of the boat's valuation as GST. Not like NZ who lets Oz's (and anyone else for that matter) coming to live here enter their boats permanently tax free.

John

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Maybe that is why when I was a baby my mother chained me to my cot and cracked her stock whip when I wasn't sleeping well. Seem to remember her singing something along the lines of

Rock a bye baby on the gallows drop
When the levers pulled your neck will go pop
And when the rope breaks baby will fall
and down will come baby, gallows and all

John


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"Failing that a gentle shove at the right time dampens their attempts (Ker-splash)"

Be very careful. If they can't swim today's Political Correctness means that you will be arrested, charged and imprisoned, just like the farmer Tony Martin! Correct Bliarite principles are to let them get away with it.

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