BOD, it's a thing

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Is anyone else suffering with BOD - Boat Obsession Disorder? If you have the following symptoms it's not good news -

  • Frequent pre-season daydreaming about your boat, the season ahead and seasons gone by
  • Concern that your boat obsession is distracting you from running your own business - the thought of doing something on the boat far outweighs the need to be keeping business up
  • Posting on the YBW forum during working hours
  • Mulling over the endless pre-season jobs you want to get done on your boat too often
  • Frivolous purchasing of things that you feel your boat must have
  • You would rather do work on your boat at the weekend than spend time with your family

Currently their is no cure i'm afraid. I am sure we could set up a support group if necessary. Good luck to you all.

If anyone knows any other symptoms please feel free to share them.
 
jcwads said:
Is anyone else suffering with BOD - Boat Obsession Disorder? If you have the following symptoms it's not good news -

  • Frequent pre-season daydreaming about your boat, the season ahead and seasons gone by
  • Concern that your boat obsession is distracting you from running your own business - the thought of doing something on the boat far outweighs the need to be keeping business up
  • Posting on the YBW forum during working hours
  • Mulling over the endless pre-season jobs you want to get done on your boat too often
  • Frivolous purchasing of things that you feel your boat must have
  • You would rather do work on your boat at the weekend than spend time with your family

Currently their is no cure i'm afraid. I am sure we could set up a support group if necessary. Good luck to you all.

If anyone knows any other symptoms please feel free to share them.
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Yep, totally agree, although as weekends are not really a viable option I'm finding reasons for solo trips to SoF every few weeks for 'maintenance'., and to transport the ever growing pile of all sorts that need to be taken down... "best I get the jobs done before we're all on the boat!"
 
jcwads said:
Is anyone else suffering with BOD - Boat Obsession Disorder? If you have the following symptoms it's not good news -

  • Frequent pre-season daydreaming about your boat, the season ahead and seasons gone by
  • Concern that your boat obsession is distracting you from running your own business - the thought of doing something on the boat far outweighs the need to be keeping business up
  • Posting on the YBW forum during working hours
  • Mulling over the endless pre-season jobs you want to get done on your boat too often
  • Frivolous purchasing of things that you feel your boat must have
  • You would rather do work on your boat at the weekend than spend time with your family

Currently their is no cure i'm afraid. I am sure we could set up a support group if necessary. Good luck to you all.

If anyone knows any other symptoms please feel free to share them.
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Oh Doctor.....................that's exactly what I've got.........BOD!

My wife is constantly accusing me of such things as:

Being obsessed with this very forum, despite my protestations to the contrary
Wanting to spend more time with the boat that I do with her and the kids....Ok, that might be true :eek:
Taking much better care of the boat than I do the house, for which there is a list of jobs to do a mile long
etc. etc.

I do regularly tell her my obsession with the boat is cheaper than running a mistress, so she should count herself lucky:encouragement:

Andy
 
jcwads said:
Currently their is no cure i'm afraid.
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In my experience, living aboard for about half of the year (if not more) is a pretty effective therapy.
It doesn't really cure BOD, but keeps its symptoms at bay, so to speak... :cool:
 
Those symptoms sound rather familiar. My wife insists that for every pound I spend on the boat an equivalent amount is spent on shoes and handbags.

Time to downsize methinks!
 
Hot Property said:
Those symptoms sound rather familiar. My wife insists that for every pound I spend on the boat an equivalent amount is spent on shoes and handbags.

Time to downsize methinks!
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We have the same sort of tacit agreement, I am not allowed to question her spending on clothes, she doesn't complain about my boat purchases.
The good news though is that I am winning!
 
I have a specific variant of this disorder which requires me to own multiple stupid boats when in fact I would be better off with one sensible boat, but doesn't stop me from wanting/succeeding to own yet more stupid boats.
 
According to my wife, I suffer from something called either boatshowitis or boatshowmania. The signs are that as a boat show approaches (La Ciotat boat show tomorrow) I get antsy and over excitable :(
 
I've recently done some work on our community sewage plant.
And for me, BOD - Biochemical Oxygen Demand measures the amount of oxygen, in Mg/L, required by microorganisms in the sewage.
Does this help?
 
Hurricane said:
I've recently done some work on our community sewage plant.
And for me, BOD - Biochemical Oxygen Demand measures the amount of oxygen, in Mg/L, required by microorganisms in the sewage.
Does this help?
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Why would you be doing work on a community sewage plant? Surely it will have been adopted in the recent (past few years) changes in the adoption laws?
 
don't know quite what I got..

I no longer buy anything for it, used to, but after 10 years its got everything and gained half a ton in weight.

I do drive down to the boat after work to wash it, and then drive back. I live 66.4 miles from my boat.

… and I was lusting after a crew transfer vessel and commercial dive support boat in Yarmouth yesterday a little too much.

it might be classed as simple stupidity?
 
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