best route to incompetence in boat ownership

[Lakesailor]

I have just sold my ply/epoxy boat to a bloke who was in the in the Sea Cadets in Birmingham.

 

[Boathook]

I have just sold my ply/epoxy boat to a bloke who was in the in the Sea Cadets in Birmingham.

Makes him experienced then .........

 

[DogWatch]

Shooting at your crew enables them to understand instructions that would otherwise make no sense.

I tend to find it focuses their minds when you do.

 

[sailorgirl]

I wonder if any you experts could offer a few tips:

my starters are....

buying the boat your wife says you need

Or even simply thinking you can afford to buy a boat?

 

[Sybarite]

hoping to learn stuff about sailing from films made by an old fart in a plug ugly boat called the Claydon Princess

Dylan

Stop stealing my lines...

 

[Sybarite]

Growing a big white bushy beard will make you a better sailor and in no way makes you look like a .....

Tartlet?

 

[PeppaPig]

You must wear a blue Breton cap, a blue Guernsey jumper, and fly a blue flappy thing at the back of your boat. Blueness indicates extreme competence. Probably why you should anchor at blue flag beaches too...

 

[Seajet]

No, no !

You need a peaked officers cap with a white cover...the chap thus equipped who practices hand bearings in our clubhouse with a chart spread over the pool table is clearly an expert, and it's simply our feeling inadequate which makes me and others run or let slip if we seem him approaching on the slipway asking if we need crew...

 

[guernseyman]

... a blue Guernsey jumper, ...

more properly known as a Guernsey (shirt or smock optional).

 

[johnalison]

more properly known as a Guernsey (shirt or smock optional).

So, it's not a Guernsey jersey then?

 

[Madhatter]

Thinking that because you can run a small business you're automatically good at everything and know more than anyone else. Anyone who has a different point of view is obviously wrong.

 

[KellysEye]

>buying the boat your wife says you need

She wouldn't let you buy what you need, she would demand a large aft cabin with everything else immaterial, including your opinion.

 

[onesea]

I wonder if any you experts could offer a few tips:

my starters are....

buying the boat your wife says you need

I managed this with my first boat we where saving money for a kitchen, she said we needed it...

I used all the savings and bought our first boat, I pointed out it got the kitchen she needed it was called a galley ...

Interestingly that incident was not sighted in the divorce, several years later

 

[aslabend]

Believing that having the Life-jacket, eprib, plb, life-raft, dsc, ais and a set of offshore pyrotechnics means you'll be safe in any whether.

 

[kaymak]

r-h said:

"Shouting at your crew enables them to understand instructions that would otherwise make no sense."

I am in America at the moment, so naturally read it as "shooting" not "shouting".

So here goes:

Shooting at your crew enables them . . .

 

[ChiPete]

Knowing that despite tying them hundreds of times previously, as soon as you know someone is watching (usually from another boat/pontoon etc.) then any idea about how to tie a bowline will go out of the window

 

[Bobobolinsky]

Growing a big white bushy beard will make you a better sailor and in no way makes you look like a .....

forummite

 

[Nicholas123]

I wonder if any you experts could offer a few tips:

my starters are....

buying the boat your wife says you need

Thinking you don't need to start small & work up & it would be boring anyway.

 

[Vid]

When I worked at a chandlery, we sold 3 grades of bino's, varying from moderately el cheapo through decent I'd use to slightly pricey.

One day we had a group of ******* in leather jackets in, " ain't you got no quality bino's, Leica's, then ? "

My reply was ' anyone who has actually experienced offshore boat conditions will think people who request Leicas' may well be a berk, Sir ! '

I have a pair of Leica's I use on my modest little boat. They cost about 20% as much as the boat did, but they are stupendously good, fortunately. If I bought the same model now they'd cost about 50% of what the boat is now worth...

http://www.reddotcameras.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=33&products_id=754#menu

My recommendation is never, ever look through a pair of Leicas: because if you do you will buy them.

 

[Seajet]

I have a pair of Leica's I use on my modest little boat. They cost about 20% as much as the boat did, but they are stupendously good, fortunately. If I bought the same model now they'd cost about 50% of what the boat is now worth...

http://www.reddotcameras.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=33&products_id=754#menu

My recommendation is never, ever look through a pair of Leicas: because if you do you will buy them.

Vid,

I forgot to mention I worked a lot longer ( 20 odd years) with BAe and others as a photographer using Hasselblads & Nikons; Leica's are fine but at sea I'll stick with relatively cheapo - but selected - kit, may be because I'm half Scottish !