Convincing SWMBO!

[coombm]

Most of you are boat owners so suggestions please as to how to counter the argument that "we live in the West Midlands, we have two young children (6 & 4) who can't swim, we could build an extension, have a conservatory and I could give up work or we buy a boat".

 

[Guest]

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[hlb]

course you will need to give up work as well to get the best enjoyment out of it. Better still, move some where warm. Then if your using the boat that much, you will need a bigger one.

<font color=blue> Haydn

 

[FlyingSpud]

Don’t know what I’m doing here, being a raggie, perhaps even worse, I’m a divorce lawyer, - which oddly gives me a pretty good insight into the reasons for marriage failure. So listen.

The most common time for breakdown of marriage is 27 years in (not 1 or 7), why? Obvious, you marry because you like each other, 2/3 years in and out pops kid 1, a year or 2 later, and out pops kid 2.

What do you spend the next 20 years talking about? The kids, that’s what, and 25/27 years in the one thing you have had in common leaves home. The people who started living together are no longer there, and you have nothing to say except ‘I’m seeing my lawyer in the morning’.

The Answer?

You need a hobby you, she and the kids can be involved in, and that you can do together after the kids leave.

Golf? Can’t drag the kids round the course and end up playing alone
Skiing? Ok, but only 4 months of the year
Gardening? Well, Yuk, and anyway the kids will never be interested

Sailing? It’s the only answer

So you need to go on the boat – if that what you call those smelly smoke belching things you use /forums/images/icons/smile.gif and she should be all for it as a way of saving your marriage. If she will not only encourage you in this, and indeed refuses to come down and help you do whatever you do to those things, she does not love you, wants the kids to be from a broken home (leading to a life of crime and eventual imprisonment) and has no romance in her soul.

The other odd thing about this is, it’s true.

By the way, I was looking in to see what you lot had to say about the introduction of breathalyser, think it may hit you lot more than us

 

[Guest]

darn imposter be orf with you

"Your chance to own a Crown is now"

 

[lanason]

Well I live in the West Mdlands (just) have two kids 6 and 4 PLUS two aged 11 and 14 and a SWMBO who does not like the boat.

No choice - just go and buy a boat - but make sure its not too small for them to be safe. Then do like I did and buy her a NEW CAR, with her own Private number plate with HER initals on it.

Lucky really that the car was a big 4x4, enough to tow the boat /forums/images/icons/wink.gif. (with the boat at nearly 3 tonnes my car wont tow it).........then you gotta negociate time to use the boat .... use the winter to decorate etc then its fair to boat in the summer /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

Adrian
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[coombm]

Do you use it in the Midlands at all or keep it at the coast eg Pwhelli?

 

[lanason]

Last year it was down in Milford Haven but now with the 4x4 can tow her anywhere - just need a suitable slipway

Adrian
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[FlyingSpud]

I thought it was a prophet in his own land …..

 

[jimi]

Charter a boat in the Med or Carribean. Or go on a Sunsail Villa holiday . she & kids will love it!

 

[Nick2]

Put it this way we now have a twin diesel engine, shaft driven floating extension............

Says it all for us really!

Nick



One day I might just buy a dingy.....

 

[oldgit]

Who,s in charge up there in the midlands.Darn sarf the little woman knows her place. Ouch Ouch Ouch.............

Oooh look its still not dark and its nearly 5pm

 

[Sybarite]

Book an appointment with Flying Spud.

 

[duncan]

firstly it's a real good way to get the kids swimming....
secondly the south coast used to be full of people from London at the weekend - it's now from the midlands so a lot of people think it's a good idea!
More serious note you are either going to have to have a baot you can weekend on based down there - it can still be small enough to go somewhere on a trailer if you really really need to but small kids, towing and launch recovery is a step too far. You can also consider a boat that may be suitable for inland waterways as well under this category. Alternatively, and commonly, smaller boat and a caravan nearby - again a common setup.
Unless they are already hooked I suggest you sort out a couple of sample weekends in 2003 - pity you didn't join in the Wareham or Poole weekends - but I am sure there will be more!
Finally, you really need things to be suitable even if the weater is les than perfect - which is why Chichester Harbour, Poole and some of the Western Solent are so popular.