Camp Ribsters, Cool Cruisers?

[Guest]

Well from the replies I have seen here it seems that at the moment it is just ribsters who think they are the only boats to have. I am not trying to stir things up as I have been suspended from ribnet, but I do think you should have a boat for the conditions you will use it in. I went from buying a rib to buying a little cuddy boat as I have a 14mth old daughter and my wife wanted somewheer to shelter her should it be required, I seem to have been seen as a traiter for doing this. I would love to have a rib, but I do think there is a time and place for them, at the moment the time is not right for me personaly. I see on the ribnet forum that people are doing their best to find ways of fitting a tent like contraption to a rib, and then trying to sleep uncomfortably squashed under it, to me that is madness and lack of forward planning, the boats were not made for that reason. Perhaps I should just stick tubes around my little cuddy boat, and have the best of both worlds, galley, toilet and three berths (well 2.5). As far as I can see when the boat is going the tubes are not in the water anyway, it is all down to the hull so what the hell (can I say that word).

Please note I have just done my Powerboat level 2 last weekend, do not get my boat for another 5 weeks and am very new to boating, so just my opinions, I am still learning.

So in short are cruisers caravaners with all the comforts and ribsters campers on a budget sleeping rough?

 

[tcm]

Call the police.

Caravans? I don't think any of these lovely motors boats are as nasty as caravans. For example, nobody has ever admitted to having any tupperware boxes with biscuits innem. Er, oops.

 

[byron]

<font color=blue>Horses for courses. One needs the right kind of boat to suit one's boating activities.

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[Guest]

Re: Call the police.

Errrr, I don't think you have had a look inside my Glastron L.O.L. Perhaps when I have a bit more cash I can get a decent boat like some have on here.

 

[tcm]

Re: LOL?

it can't be called a Glastron Laughed Out Loud, can it?

 

[Guest]

Re: LOL?

No I am sorry i should have put a , I was L.O.L. sorry you didn't understand, I will try to write things in an easier way next time for you.

 

[Bejasus]

Re: LOL?

Ooh!Ooh! Webfight................../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[BarryH]

Re: LOL?

Nah! Just an e-scuffle, you want to see a web fight go to the hello thread!

 

[hlb]

Re: Call the police.

Ah well. It's all by degrees of course. For instance. TCM's boat is complete crap as opposed to eerrrmmm, whatsisnames. On the other hand. Mine is fantastic as opposed to thingies. Ribs are fairly crap though. Not even as good as a raggy. Never thought I'd find anything worse than a raggy. At least you can make a cup of tea and sleep on a raggy. Cant drink beer on a rib. No tomato soup. No music and the TV's rubbish. Cant have davits and a tender. No dinning room and wheres the fly bridge???............../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

<font color=blue> Haydn

 

[jfm]

steady, grumpy

Grumpy, maybe go a bit steady on categorising everyone, eh? Who gives a ...erm...monkey's? In your other post everyone is a stinky or raggie, and a 4x4 owner or a 2 wheel driver. Here everyone has to be a ribster or a cuddyster or whatever. Relax! Many round here are raggies and stinkies 50 50, also 4x4 and normal car, and yes never take the 4x4 off road (twud get mud on the carpets, see). People can have whatever boat they want, and erect tents or even marquees on board it they choose. Chill.

Re your being ostracised on ribnet for having a non rib boat, I'm confused. Depsol frexample is a non ribster, as stated in all his posts on ribnet, and he hasn't been chucked off there.

So post something about boats, or where you're going on holiday this year, or how knarked you are that your boat is delivered late, or how pleased that it's on time and all working, or how to get off a speeding ticket, or how to fix boat toilets. Anything, except a post beginning "I'm not trying to stir things up but..." then doing exactly that. All imho

 

[Buck]

The next obvious step

Step all the way up the ladder, you have gone from inflatable to rigid, climb all the way up and move onto the pinnacle of boating, sailing.

Buck

Relax, life is just a game.

 

[tcm]

Re: oh dang!

But grumpy was livening things up!

So, not wanting to stir things up, but I think you are a LAID BACK powerboat raggie germancardriver wheras, by contrast I am firmly in the SOMETIMES GRUMPY powerboat raggie germancardriver camp.

 

[paulineb]

Re: oh dang!

I didn't know you and jfm were German

Pxx

 

[tcm]

Re: oh dang!

no, it's the car that is german tho i admit it's ambiguous when one says german car driver. jeez. who is this grumpy1? is there a dopey sleepy and sneezy too?

 

[Guest]

whilst i'm confused by your identity crisis with me, I agree with what you say on this thread

 

[jfm]

Re: oh dang!

Tee hee! Laid back you say, LAID BACK!! Oh alright then, praps true. Better than lazy git, which is my usual descriptor. Axshully grumpy's best post is the one where he apologises for missing the comma in the name of the Glastron LOL model. I was in stitches! But I just yawn at the picking-a-fight tone. I much prefer newbies to post about fixing toilets then get flamed by Haydn defending his turf.

 

[tcm]

Re: oh dang!

I wil recommend that he consider a Birchwood ROFTLFHO.

 

[claymore]

Re: oh dang!

We don't have tupperware boxes but do have some from Safeway which have green lids that are very difficult to get on and off.
Dear heart says they are cheaper than tupperware and I feel the secret to the difficulty must somehow be connected here
On the other hand I had a cover on my Avon Searider that was made by Fleetwood Trawler supplies that cost much less than some others that I had been quoted for.
It came off very easily - once on the M74 which was a hoot for the nice family travelling behind in their Renault Espace


regards
Claymore
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[jfm]

getting worse

Yes, I hear they have much in common with fast RIBs, a trip in a Birchwood is a white knuckle ride


(Sorry, that was terrible...)

 

[tcm]

Re: most interesting

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