Could you share a boat with a full blown snorer?

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I am currently quietly seeking out people who are prepared to help do the 550 miles from Falmouth to Plockton in one hit. Aiming to do it during the last two weeks of May. The aim is only run for cover if it gets above a six.

Three blokes work really well - doing two or three hour watches so you get twice as much time off as on. That way the boat gets driven fairly well.

I plan to do the same as I did with the North Sea with Jon and Roger - just set watches and keep her going around the clock.

One bloke is prepared to fly over to do the trip. He sounds like an interesting bloke and we should get some great cockpit conversations out of him.

He has done a fair bit of sailing - never owned his own boat, is never seasick and his wife says he is a tidy man.

He snores though.....

I can live with a gentle occasional snuffler but a full blown all-through-the- night snorker is a tough thing to share a small plastic box with.


I have shared a boat with a real fog horn - the annoying thing is that the bloke who is keeping everyone else away is getting plenty of sleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DASDYM6nZDQ

I have asked his wife if she will record him with using a smartphone snoreing ap.


https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ralphsapps.snorecontrol&hl=en_GB
 
You could always put the snorer in the fo'c'sle and shut the door.

Allow him to sleep in the main cabin only when the engine is running

but given that you wil have to get used to sleeping with the engine on anyway a snorer should be no problem
 
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dylanwinter said:
I am currently quietly seeking out people who are prepared to help do the 550 miles from Falmouth to Plockton in one hit. Aiming to do it during the last two weeks of May. The aim is only run for cover if it gets above a six.

Three blokes work really well - doing two or three hour watches so you get twice as much time off as on. That way the boat gets driven fairly well.

I plan to do the same as I did with the North Sea with Jon and Roger - just set watches and keep her going around the clock.

One bloke is prepared to fly over to do the trip. He sounds like an interesting bloke and we should get some great cockpit conversations out of him.

He has done a fair bit of sailing - never owned his own boat, is never seasick and his wife says he is a tidy man.

He snores though.....

I can live with a gentle occasional snuffler but a full blown all-through-the- night snorker is a tough thing to share a small plastic box with.


I have shared a boat with a real fog horn - the annoying thing is that the bloke who is keeping everyone else away is getting plenty of sleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DASDYM6nZDQ


I have asked his wife if she will record him with using a smartphone snoreing ap.


https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ralphsapps.snorecontrol&hl=en_GB
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My wife does. She used to pinch my nose to make me stop/turn over. I only snore when I am on my back, but I turn over a lot. Now it takes just the lightest touch on the end of my nose for me to turn on my side. With your ingenuity, couldn't you knock up a headband with some sort of counterweighted digit that pivots down and touches the end of his nose when he lays on his back - combination of a headtorch and something from one of those men's desk toy shops should do it. Plenty of time for his wife to train him between now and late May.
 
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VicS said:
You could always put the snorer in the fo'c'sle and shut the door.

Allow him to sleep in the main cabin only when the engine is running

but given that you wil have to get used to sleeping with the engine on anyway a snorer should be no problem
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last time the engine was only run for about ten hours over the whole 500

hoping for the same this time

there are few pleasures greater than drifting off to sleep at night and listening to the sounds of a well sailed boat shoving her way through the night.

D
 
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We are friends with a couple who occasionally sail with us... the point is the female half of the couple snores like a foghorn. I wear earplugs to block out the incessant sound of her chainsaw like snoring.
 
I've slept on a boat with six of them before. No problem at all with earplugs, but the cacophony when I got up for a pee and took the plugs out was awesome to experience.

Pete
 
my problem is that I hate the feeling of ear plugs, they do not block out all the noise and I sleep easier if I can hear when something happens to the boat.

I have sailed with my brothers a fair bit - buit sharing a tent or a cabin with them was bloody awful

D
 
I went skiing with a mate a few years ago. Shared a room to save money. He spent seemingly the whole first night shouting at me to stf up. Next morning he moved to a different room. In a different hotel.
 
prv said:
I've slept on a boat with six of them before. No problem at all with earplugs, but the cacophony when I got up for a pee and took the plugs out was awesome to experience.

Pete
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As you presumably removed the earplugs to have a pee, may I ask if you normally pee out of your ears or is it just a party trick?
 
Wandering Star said:
As you presumably removed the earplugs to have a pee, may I ask if you normally pee out of your ears or is it just a party trick?
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:)

Just that walking around with a complete absence of sound is a bit disorienting. Put in properly (read the instructions, you don't just cram 'em in), foam earplugs block out pretty much everything for me.

Pete
 
GraemeS said:
At school we'd drop a 9v square battery in to the mouth of the snorer. Had all sorts of effects. Don't suppose you'd get away with that now.
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If it all goes wrong it's easier to get rid of a body from a boat than from a school. :)
 
dylanwinter said:
my problem is that I hate the feeling of ear plugs, they do not block out all the noise and I sleep easier if I can hear when something happens to the boat.

I have sailed with my brothers a fair bit - buit sharing a tent or a cabin with them was bloody awful

D
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It was either earplugs or my sanity.
 
I chartered a Bav 37 last year for my stag do when the Americas cup was on. (I'll never be able to afford one and my mates aren't sailors so it was something new for all of us). Eight blokes in one tub left for some interesting noises and smells!

I shared the V with my brother to save any of the others having to put up with him, The Friday night I had about 3 hours sleep, the second night I was so tired after a day of sailing and the lack of sleep the "boys night out" in Cowes ended at 10pm and all was in bed by 11.30. I had about another 3 hours of sleep and gave up at about 5 in the morning and went to sleep in the cockpit.

NEVER EVER will I share a cabin with anyone who snores again.

Good luck.
 
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