Boats are supposed to be for realaxing and enjoyment, no?

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I wonder why some people get so hot up by trivia on this forum? I suppose there are types that simply love to argue....

But I love boats even when I hate bits of them. I'll explain.

Went to my boat this morning to take my friend out on the tender. He had never been in one, let alone driven one. His yacht doesn't have one and he's relatively new to it all.
Anyway, that's how to mess about in boats, didn't take him long to get basics, plus half a dozen alongside, a high speed run outside the marina, bit more maneuvering, he's cracked it.
Then we tootled over to another friends boat, he'd asked me to help him put his reef lines back in after changing the nainsail. Big boat, but that went well, coffee too.

But Neptune always waits. We are off for a few days tomorrow so I asked my dinghy pal to help fit the hydrovane rudder. Grr. After 20 minutes of not doing a one minute job, we departed for lunch.
Cmon Neptune, bring it on.. I won. Had to get into the water though which caught interest from those dining at the restaurant overlooking my berth. Good job I'm fit and tanned....

So good and bad bits but no one saying how ' you didn't want to do it like that' or you should of looked at you tube.

Proper joy of boating

Forecast looks fab so a nice broad reach down to Rosario on our next door island plus dining ashore in The Bounty, my favourite.

Boats, eh???!!!???

:) :)
 
Agree that some people really need to get a life and I often wonder at some of the replies as to have they ever even been aboard a yacht, then yes we all have to learn but I like the really sad cases who have nothing better to worry about but are they flying the right flag etiquette :)
I learned a long time ago : "There is nothing- absolutely nothing- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." Kenneth Grahame's - The Wind in the Willows. "
 
I agree, it is astounding how much time some people have for stiring the pot on these forums, it's good to see they occasionally do use their boats.
 
lustyd said:
I agree, it is astounding how much time some people have for stiring the pot on these forums, it's good to see they occasionally do use their boats.
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Yeah I'm generally out one one boat or another st least once a week. I sail around six others here as well as my own. You would be surprised at how much xbox stuff they don't have.

I enjoyed the two deliveries as well as our tour round all the Canarian Islands. Aren't boats wonderful?
 
capnsensible said:
But Neptune always waits. We are off for a few days tomorrow so I asked my dinghy pal to help fit the hydrovane rudder. Grr. After 20 minutes of not doing a one minute job, we departed for lunch.
Cmon Neptune, bring it on.. I won. Had to get into the water though which caught interest from those dining at the restaurant overlooking my berth. Good job I'm fit and tanned....
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what was the problem with HV rudder?
 
Well ignoring that person, I'm gonna mention wot I learnt today.

For lots of years on here I've been reading about your houses get cluttered with boat bits. I now have a house after all that time living aboard sniggering at those stories.

However, I've returned from the boat with two 20 l diesel cans, a12l dinghy fuel tank and a 25l empty spare water plastic jerrycan. They are not exactly cluttering, but house stowage space is reduced. But on board, wow! ?
 
Slight thread wander possibly but in the same vein, how many times in years gone by (in my case) have some of us / most of us on here been mid-channel, 0100 hours, F6 blowing, horizontal rain, with a bunch of mates huddled together along the rail next to us when some bright spark shouts out 'are we having fun yet' and we're all wondering why on earth we do this...? Yet, next morning, in some French yacht club or local bar we're all discussing why we didn't win, when the next race is and we can't wait to get out there again.
 
Yeah I'm happy I've moved on from those days. Especially changing headsails mid channel 0100 hours, F6 horizontal rain...?

But a bit sad too.

The quantity of beer and wine we used to get through in those French bars was epic!
 
I'm not sure that fun ever had anything to do with it, otherwise, why was it that, even if the weekend had been horrible and the children even worse, at some time on the drive home I would be planning the next weekend's trip?
 
I’m as guilty as anyone of ‘stirring the pot’ on this forum. Hopefully most is done in good humor and that most here realize it (it sort of kills the joke if they have to be told). But, in my defense, I think I enjoy my boat and boating as much as the next man and I’m privileged to enjoy it more than many?
 
Today my wife & I had lunch at the Sundancer in Nairn, which looks across to Cromarty Firth. I began regaling her of the time a few months ago where I'd come into Cromarty in thick fog, using Navionics & AIS, my ears and senses, and having the thought of 'what if the nav went U/S?', so had planned (in my head) how I'd monitor the depth gauge, and 'if that broke?' what'd I do, and of how engaged I'd been and what excitement and fun it all was.
She was obviously fascinated; well no actually. She appeared more interested in trying to outstare a prawn on her plate, which was far more thrilling to her than my little adventure.
She's not a yottie at all (big-time), and has a background as a senior person treating learning disability & challenging behaviour, of dealing with troubled people in difficult situations, but I felt that I was approaching a 'line in the sand'.
We go sailing, and mess around with 'yottie sh1te' because it's 99% boring, balanced by a bit of fear.
 
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