Boat Addiction?

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Winter is over, the new season has started. Cannot concentrate on my job, cannot show interest in normal conversations with my non-sailing friends. Always thinking about my to-do-lists and all the little projects, planning next weekend and holiday sailing adventures. I'm dreaming boat at night, thinking boat first thing in the morning...
Is this serious?
Do I need to see someone?
 
Oh Dear!.........you need help my son! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif......I would prescribe a good dose of sailing, until you do this, I fear that you will be nothing but a shadow of your former self.

Yours in deepest sympathy etc.
 
no, that sounds perfectly normal. I'm particularly irritable as the jobs took longer, so my boat's still in the yard. Should get them all finished next weekend.
 
I`m obsessed with my boat according to my wife,i work on it all winter,and sail most days/evenings the rest of the time,when i`m not on it i`m thinking about it,she hates the thing, no accounting for taste,thats why shes with me apparently. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
I'm afraid winter is "same, same but different", LittleShip.
Winters are usually to cold to do major outside jobs here in Norway. Of course she's being looked well after during winter!
On the other hand; winter means hours and hours in front of my PC, surfing Noonsite, yachting forums, Google Earth etc.
dreaming about the Blue Waters. To much money spent on magazines and books.
Never ending story...! As for now, only one hour until I can leave for three days sailing therapi on the swedish west cost /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
I know the feeling, purposely and unneccesarily drive past the Harbour to check it's on its mooring, every time I go into town; SWMBO & no 2 dauigter consider it an obsession.
 
Dito, I almost become a divorcee by every may, but then as the season goes by I seem to be accepted back to the normal way of things.
Swmbo tells me that I love my boat more than I love her, I reply by telling her that I love my dingy more than I love her her /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
My wife also said I loved the boat more than her.......................................I thought for a while then said, you forgot about the dog, Landrover, oow and that perky blonde waitress at the Ferryboat Inn. Funny old thing divorce!
 
I installed a young French filly to the homestead over the winter and she's helping to take my mind off sailing matters during the week...I'd recommend it.
 
Nope, I'd say you're perfectly normal. I have another problem, just as worrying (to me anyway!!).
I am going to leave this country and be a hostie on the flot's next year - only problem is I can't apply til sept at the earliest and am finding it very difficult to concentrate on anything. When colleagues at work moan about 20 oddd years till retirement (I'd have 38) I have to bite my tongue to stop myself blurting out the fact that I hope to be off in a matter of months.
I also have a flot booked for 4 weeks time - is there such a thing as 'flotillas anonymous' do you think?
 
WHAT is a 'flot'

is it actual sailing ? - or a piss up in sunshine with a group of pissees ??
at the same time upping the price of anchorages and eating establishements that mean you can never afford the dream due to the 'flot' fraternity who inflate prices and entice locals into the fact that MOST boatess have moeny to burn - coss they is on a 'flot' up...

thou reapeth wot thou shalt sow...
 
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