BobnLesley
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A quick Google on the subject of Kenneth Grahame's sex-life and marriage may give some explanation for that oft quoted passage.
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Boats are supposed to be for realaxing and enjoyment, no?
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A quick Google on the subject of Kenneth Grahame's sex-life and marriage may give some explanation for that oft quoted passage.
Skylark
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Back to the OP ?
I’ve had a dreadful sailing season characterised by the need for maintenance ? My boat having been left forlorn in its cradle for 19 months prior to season launch, thanks to covid, didn’t help.
Only yesterday could I finally say that the boat is 100% as I fixed the one remaining outstanding issue. An hour after the fix I was hauled-out ?
Several of my issues would not have been fixed by me were it not for the generosity of knowledge sharing within the forum…..so a much appreciated thanks.
In another topical thread, I posted that one well known, helpful and knowledgeable poster was taking a break from the forum. What a loss to us all.
I think you have it in one, cap’n, some folk just like to argue. Sad barstewards.
BobnLesley
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I love to hear from an optimist
I realise hauling-out again will have helped, but we'd all be interested in an update on your empty 'jobs to do' list; as it's now been 48 hours, I'm guessing that there'll be two, or possibly three items back on it.???
johnalison
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Coping with fog can be a boost to one's confidence. On one occasion, with Decca but no radar, we joined other members of the club in a two- trip to return home in morning fog from Brightlingsea. As we entered the Blackwater the sun started to burn off the fog and we were rewarded with a spectacular sight of a layer of mist and only the tops of the masts of assorted yachts and smacks to be seen, and as a bonus a fogbow, which I have only rarely seen.
On another occasion, crossing the N Sea with my wife, it became foggy as it was getting dark. With radar we were able to motor on at a respectable speed in the full knowledge that we wouldn't be hit by a ship. When the fog lifted about four hours later we were able to congratulate ourselves for having coped without allowing ourselves to be stressed and continued with a passage whose postponement would have been tedious.
Bouba
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Boating is relaxing…….for some
Wansworth
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Retirement yacht will have lots of titivating to do that can be dropped in an instant to take in a bar and a chat?
capnsensible
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capnsensible
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Lighthouse and blue sea.
Lightwave395
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Lighthouse and blue sea
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Skylark
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Doesn’t being an optimist and owning a boat go hand in hand?I love to hear from an optimist
I realise hauling-out again will have helped, but we'd all be interested in an update on your empty 'jobs to do' list; as it's now been 48 hours, I'm guessing that there'll be two, or possibly three items back on it.???
My “jobs to do” list is inexhaustible as it relates to a boat. My “needs fixing” list was completed on the last day of the season.
There is clear pay-back for being an optimist. For the last couple of weeks the local weather has been a bit iffy. Yesterday was no wind and sunshine so a perfect day for haul-out.
It’s not stopped raining today but I’ve been determined to clean the topsides. I was absolutely soaked to the bone but my boat now looks splendid in her cradle, ready for hibernation.
Back to “dry” Manchester tomorrow ?
Jobs to do include putting the prop in brick cleaner, always a fun thing to do ?
Gary Fox
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The first book I read, 1967-ish, under the bedclothes with a torch on a school night, was 'The Wind in the Willows'. I can still remember most of it.A quick Google on the subject of Kenneth Grahame's sex-life and marriage may give some explanation for that oft quoted passage.
And now you have to dig out scurrillous, prurient filth, to try and blacken the author's name.
You have ruined my childhood. Ruined it! HOW DARE YOU?
Gary Fox
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Yes and it seems to bother some people a lot, to the level of irrational panic (not a useful state of mind..) while others seem to find it calming even. I'm one of the latter, and I have a theory that those who are cool and chilled in zero viz. have asked themselves, or even been confronted by events in life, which have forced them to think about their own demise. Without going too deeply into it...
To give crew the 'fog chat', you need to be in fog -ish, in a relatively safe (or at least known) position, and calm their worries by demonstrating that they can chill out, let the adrenaline disperse, and use a few simple skills and techniques to assure the yacht's safety.
capnsensible
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I don't mind fog. I've taken scores of people thtough simulated fog exercises and dealt with it for real many times. Especially in the Straits of Gibraltar.
On lots of different boats. Some with radar, some with ais, some with plotters. Some with none of those very useful things. But I can do it from basic contour following.
Today though, factor 30. Yay.
On lots of different boats. Some with radar, some with ais, some with plotters. Some with none of those very useful things. But I can do it from basic contour following.
Today though, factor 30. Yay.
For me it was "Lady Chatterly's lover"
capnsensible
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Happiness is sunset beers sat at anchor in the lee of a nice little island. Yay.
capnsensible
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Wansworth
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Autumn afternoon ría de Vigo,perfect full sail breeze………must get a boat?
Gary Fox
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I assume you have also visited Elevenerife?I don't mind fog. I've taken scores of people thtough simulated fog exercises and dealt with it for real many times. Especially in the Straits of Gibraltar.
On lots of different boats. Some with radar, some with ais, some with plotters. Some with none of those very useful things. But I can do it from basic contour following.
Today though, factor 30. Yay.
Gwylan
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Now definitely an ex owner and ex sailor.
A sad place to be, in my experience.
The best garden shed I ever had.
The management understood that there were things that had to be done on the boat. Tacit agreement to keep it vague. Just be sure that there was some evidence on the next outing .
Also that nothing broke on voyage
We agreed that we never discussed the skiing or the sailing budget. Items less than 000s were nodded through.
Do make the most of messing about in boats.
A sad place to be, in my experience.
The best garden shed I ever had.
The management understood that there were things that had to be done on the boat. Tacit agreement to keep it vague. Just be sure that there was some evidence on the next outing .
Also that nothing broke on voyage
We agreed that we never discussed the skiing or the sailing budget. Items less than 000s were nodded through.
Do make the most of messing about in boats.
I can relate to that. If you're not actually POOR, what's the point in dying, only to be cremated in a gold-plated coffin?